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Replacing Windows Domain Controller

We currently have two windows 2000 domain controllers, which I will be shortly be upgrading to Windows 2003 server.

After that I want to replace one of the domain controllers with a new machine.....are there any migration tools that can do this (like Novell provides) or is it a case of building a new machine, promoting that to a domain controller, transferring files etc off the old one onto the new, and then decommissioning the old one (using dcpromo).

Regards

Ian

PS I do not need to upgrade to 2003 first...I just presumed it would be easier.

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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That is the way I was thinking of doing it....however, perhaps my question wasn't phrased quite correctly.

Given that we have a lot of shares etc on the original domain controller....I was wondering if there was any way of creating the new controller with the old ones name etc....ie some sort of ghosting method. I know, for example, that Novell has a wizard which allows you to effectively copy one machine to another.

In this way I don't have to worry about rewriting logon scripts, ensuring users remap to the shares on the new server, deal with the backup software, SQL server software etc

Regards

Ian

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Thanks for everyone's comments. Re: mkbean's comment, I have already sussed that and will transfer the FSMO's accordingly.

Re: mikeleebrla's comments, we have Exchange Server on a Windows 2000 member server.....this has already been upgraded successfully to exchange server 2003 by extending the AD schema etc.

Regards

Ian

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Thanks for all the comments, I have awarded points to everyone as they were all relevant (value of points awarded based on usefulness to me in particular not in general).

Regards

Ian