We have a small <100 user NT 4 network that includes 50% Win2000, 45% Samba
2.5, and 5% NT 4 clients. We have a PDC and a BDC and a Win2000 member
server. One domain (company) with simple group arrangements. Our company is
located at one office and plans to stay here for the next 6 months or
longer.
The PDC runs WINS, file and print, and one finance application. The BDC runs
DHCP, DNS, WINS and NAVCE 7.6. These Dell servers are not Logo'd for W2003
certification, as they are about 2.5 years old, though I would not be
surprised if W2003 ran fine on them. The NIC's are 3COM Gb with Promise RAID
controllers.
We have an internal NT DNS zone (company.com) and an external DNS zone
hosted by ISP (company.com). We plan to keep it this way.
We are moving from Sendmail to E2003. This is the driving factor for the AD
migration, and needs to be completed soon to proceed. The E2003 machines
will be new and logo'd.
My hope was to do an in-place upgrade, but the HW is not on the HCL. This
calls for a migration strategy.
Given one spare server-class and a few desktop-class machines available, how
would you perform the migration? I plan to upgrade our domain to
company.com, run AD-integrated DNS, and decrease the NT DC count by one and
consolidate apps to one server. Changing DNS and WINS settings at each
client would be acceptable if done incrementally.
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