From: "Geo" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> If you prefer, you can install NT4 on the new machine, configured as a
> BDC, then promote it to PDC, then upgrade it.

Excellent suggestion.

> If you run your AD domain in Windows 2000 Server mixed mode (the
> installation default), you can leave the old NT4 server on-line as a
> BDC for as long as you like.

It doesn't work very well, the two domain models are so different that it's
just not a stable way to do things. The worst part is the PDC has to be
NT4, you can't have an NT4 BDC with a W2K PDC.

Geo.

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