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Sunday, September 30, 2012

upgrade a windows 2000 domain to windows 2008 R2 domain

a good source is here

http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/01/migrating-an-active-directory-domain-controller-from-windows-2000-to-windows-2008-r2/

here is what I did

- I am not quite there is No official support upgrading from w2000 DC to w2008 R2 DC; as windows 2008 R2's minimum function level is windows 2000 native. so it must be a supported migration path

- install windows 2008 R2

- give it static IP on the domain

- join the domain

- extend the schema on the windows 2000 PDC and extend the domain ( I wonder I need extend the group policy as well)

- in my case, I need raise the domain function level to windows 2000 native (it was on mixed mode, which means NT4 DC allowed)

- add AD DS role, eventually run DC promo, follow the on-screen intructions, namely join to the existing forest, current domain, make sure this is a DC+GC

- eventually you will restart the new server

- after restart, check the log, make sure AD replicated properly

- then transfer 5 FSMO roles over, in ADUC and AD forest trust , connect to the other DC, click change

- run netdom /query fsmo  to make sure the roles are transferred over to the new domain controller (see I am not a new bee)

- overall, there should be 6 roles on the new server -- 5 FSMOs + Global Catalogue

- I left this running over nite

- on the second day, checks log again on both server, it looks normal

- stop the dhcp service on the old w2k server

- re-configure dns and dhcp entries to use only the new server

- run dcpromo on the windows 2000 DC to demote it to a member server

- copy files over to the new server

- modify login scripts to point shares to the new server

- ahhh, the NAP-RASMGMT is a pain
 

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