From: Chris Robinson 

John Cuccia wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:43:31 +0000, Chris Robinson
>  wrote:
>
> >Ok thanks.  That rings a bell actually - is the dcpromo tool a bit
unreliable or is
> >it OK (has anyone here used it?).
>
> It works fine.

> > I seam to remember there being something similar
> >available for NT4
>
> No, you can't promote an NT4 member server to PDC/BDC and you can't
> demote an NT4 DC to member server.

Yes, I remember now.  It was the single processor to multi-processor upscaling tool I
was thinking of for NT.

> >Does anyone here have any experience of moving NT4 domains over to Win2k?
If so,
> >would they like to share any horror stories/ tips/ lessons learned?
>
> We didn't to that at my company, we build a separate AD forest with
> one domain and established trusts between our NT4 resource domains and
> the AD account domain.  The AD domain essentially replaced our NT4
> master domain.  We still haven't migrated the NT4 resource domains to
> AD (no time, no people, no money).

Fair enough - we only have one domain here so I'm thinking of doing a
straight replace.
Think I'll go for  1 Windows 2000 server (member) for the minute and then
when I put the
new one in I'll use the dcpromo tool so it replicates :)

Thanks for the info John ;o)

Chris.

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