From: John Beckett 

Confirming what Geo said: You cannot first upgrade an NT4 BDC to W2000 or
W2003. If you try, the setup program will fail when it contacts the PDC to
determine what type of operating system it is running.

You could first promote (with Server Manager) the NT4 BDC to act as the
PDC, then upgrade it. However, there is a quite a long and complex list of
issues you are supposed to think about before doing anything.

I have no idea about the Domino side of it. If the network is critical, you
really should set up a test network, physically disconnected from your
actual network, and run some long and tedious tests.

John


Richard B.  wrote in message
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> Here's the scenario:  I currently run Domino on a Dell server, Windows
> NT 4.0.  That server is also a BDC on my NT network (I do have 2000 &
> 2003 standalone servers but haven't moved to AD yet).  I have another
> NT4 server that is my PDC.
>
> I am thinking of upgrading the Domino server from NT4 to 2003, then
> doing a Domino upgrade from 4.6 to 6.5.  The question is, will there
> be any problems doing this, since that server is now a BDC?  I plan to
> do some testing here but thought someone would have some experience
> with this.
>
> - Richard

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