[itdiscuss] migration

[Kevin Brunson]

Then as Michael said, you need to check your Domain and Forest Functional Levels (AD Domains and Trusts is a great place to check this).  If it is still set as Windows 2000 Mixed or Windows 2000 Native, then you can just promote the 2000 Advanced Server, move all the FSMOs, point your clients at the new server (running the very old, outdated, no longer supported OS) for DNS, and you should be good to go.  Once you get to that point, re-run dcpromo on the server 2003 box to demote it, then shut it down.
If your functional levels are set to 2003, then you will either need to upgrade your 2000 server to 2003 or start from scratch with a new domain, migrate user and computer accounts over, and hope for the best (better avoid this if at all possible).

I agree with Michael that going with a  2000 server is not a very good scenario.
Kevin Brunson

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Darin Rohatinsky
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:10 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] migration

Yes just the pseudo server that's our file server, running Windows Server 2003 Standard.
2009/10/29 Kevin Brunson <kevinb at highergroundtech.com<mailto:kevinb at highergroundtech.com>>
Do you have any domain controllers currently up and running?

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org<mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org> [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org<mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org>] On Behalf Of Darin Rohatinsky
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:05 PM
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Subject: [itdiscuss] migration

Currently we're using a broken domain controller.  Our primary domain controller went down, and we decided that it wasn't worth fixing.  So we have a file server running Windows Server 2003 Standard..  We have a newer Dell that's running Windows 2000 Advanced Server, which has nothing setup on it.  The only purpose of this server is going to be for a file server.  We've installed Microsoft SyncToy to move everything over and be sure we have the most recent versions of the files.  The only issue now is, how to move the user accounts over so we keep the same permissions, SIDs, etc...to the newer server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server.  We want to shut down the older server that's running Windows Server 2003 Standard.

Darin

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