Domain controllers

20 Mar 2005 4:13 PM

david gallagher

Recently on our Windows 2000 domain we introduced a Windows 2003 server. It
was installed as a domain controller. We haven't been having any problems but
I was told this is not a good scenario (2003 DC in a 2K domain). Is this
true? Should we demote the 2003 to a member server?

Thanks for your help.

21 Mar 2005 1:06 AM

William Hutchison [MSFT]

David,

Take a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325379#2
particularly the section "Overview: Upgrading Windows 2000 domain
controllers to Windows Server 2003". Did you do the "adprep /forestprep"
and "adprep /domainprep", otherwise you shouldn't have been able to dcpromo
the W2K3 box to become a DC. Hope this helps. Thanks.

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"david gallagher" <david gallag***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Recently on our Windows 2000 domain we introduced a Windows 2003 server.
> It
> was installed as a domain controller. We haven't been having any problems
> but
> I was told this is not a good scenario (2003 DC in a 2K domain). Is this
> true? Should we demote the 2003 to a member server?
>
> Thanks for your help.