Server 2003 domain upgrade
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(2 messages posted)
Hi, we have small network here with 90 systems. We have a few Server 2003 boxes
that run apps and are not domain controllers. We have a few Server 2000 boxes that
run apps and are not domain controllers. We have two server 2000 boxes one is our
domain controller it also does DHCP, DNS, and is a print server. We have a Server
2000 box that hold our ERP software and acts as a backup domain controller.
The tech before me use the domain controller as a file server and messed around a
lot with policies and to make a long story short messed it up bad. Since then the
file serving has been moved to a different box. My boss wants to replace the domain
controller because twice now it has blue screened.
What we want to do is to start fresh with a box that has server 2003 on it. We do
not want to do any replicating between the old bad server 2000 box and the new server
2003 box. Yet we want to keep the same domain name and computer name on both boxes.
We have to do this because our ERP software prints using computer name not IP and
it is a costly mess to fix this. So we want to use the same computer name.
Last week I setup Server 2003 on a box and manually put in all the computer names
and user accounts and setup the print server part. So last weekend my boss and I
came into work and turned off the old Server2000 and plugged the server 2003 into
the network. Computer seem to log in fine but when it comes to browsing around the
network it was slow and we had a ton of errors in the ERP software. So we gave up
and turned on the old Server 2000 and we were good to go.
I looked at event viewer and came across Event ID 5722 a lot in the servers that
we had going so we can see how they worked logging in. After looking around online
I came to the conclusion that I will need to rejoin each PC to the domain so I have
to touch each PC.
I also did a lot of looking around to see what other people have done and 99% of
them build a Server 2003 box, put it on the network and let it replicate and when
they are ready promote it to the DC. I can not do that so I like to get some advice
based on my restrictions what you would do to get this network to a 2003 domain.
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