[sdw2003] NT to W2K3 AD migration questions

[Doug Sampson]

So it's confirmed that one cannot specify a new AD domain name during an
in-place upgrade? I.E., I use "DSP" as the NT domain name and I want to use
"dawnsign.com" as the AD domain name (also DNS domain name). Will I be
allowed to use dawnsign.com instead of dsp.com? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com
> [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]On Behalf Of Thaddeus Braun
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 09:56 PM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: RE: [sdw2003] NT to W2K3 AD migration questions
> 
> 
> Wasn't there talk of something called a swing migration kit a 
> while ago?
> This seemed like a great way to be able to do what you wanted to do
> without having to do it all in one weekend. With the kit, I think you
> were able to take your sweet time transferring everything, 
> PLUS it had a
> revert option that you don't get if you cram it all on one weekend. 
> 
> As for a new domain name, I'd go with that because then it's a
> greenfield (never been touched) and any problems you had with the old
> domain won't transfer to the new domain. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com 
> [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
> On Behalf Of James Eitzen
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:46 PM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: Re: [sdw2003] NT to W2K3 AD migration questions
> 
> How many users to you currently have in AD?
> 
> Are you deploying new hardware at all?
> 
> And the kicker! Have you considered 2008 domain functionality?
> 
> Depending on the size and complexity of your currently deployment, it
> may be
> work considering building a new domain. I had to do one of these
> recently
> and I am soooo glad I went with building a new domain.
> 
> This also gives you a chance to whack anything wacky. This of course
> assumes
> you have nuaunces you want to get rid of, the worse is going 
> through all
> the
> work of a upgrade and crap follows from the old config.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Doug Sampson 
> <dougs at dawnsign.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am planning a migration from a NT domain to a W2K3 AD domain. Long
> > overdue.
> >
> > I am debating going with an in-place upgrade versus 
> creating a two-way
> > trust
> > between the NT domain and a new AD domain. We have three NT 4.0 SP6
> servers
> > (two of them are PDC/BDCs) and four W2K/W2K3 member servers 
> along with
> > seven
> > FreeBSD servers using Samba. We also want to upgrade Exchange 5.5 to
> Exch
> > 2003. I've identified all or most relevant materials to study and
> prepare
> > for the migration. A few questions remain.
> >
> > One, when I last looked into this a while ago during the W2K Server
> days,
> > one of the issues with an in-place upgrade using an 
> existing NT domain
> > controller was that you couldn't specify an AD domain name. 
> They would
> take
> > whatever was your NetBIOS domain name and attach a ".com" to it. Is
> this
> > still true for the in-place upgrade to W2K3 AD? I'm 
> inclined to do an
> > in-place upgrade only if I can specify an AD domain name of 
> my choice.
> >
> > Two, assuming that the in-site upgrade goes well, can I completely
> transfer
> > all domain controller functions from these aging domain 
> controllers to
> new
> > machines? I vaguely seem to recall something about difficulties
> migrating
> > certain domain controller functions (global catalog comes 
> to mind) to
> other
> > domain controllers.
> >
> > Three, I looked at the system requirements for upgrading Windows
> servers to
> > W2K3 servers. The aging NT domain controllers appear to meet all
> > requirements except for one- available 1.5 GB of free space 
> on the OS
> disk.
> > Does anyone know if the upgrade routine is extremely picky 
> about this?
> >
> > Four, how easy is it to migrate printer drivers and printer shares
> from a
> > NT
> > server to a W2K3 server? I looked at printmig.exe version 
> 3.0 and that
> seem
> > to indicate it was quite easy to do so. Comments, anyone?
> >
> > I may have more questions later on but the ones listed here are the
> more
> > relevant ones. Any other gotchas I may need to know?
> >
> > ~Doug
> >
> >
> >
> >
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