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Sorry, one more question. Do I have to run forestprep and domain prep or is that only if I am promoting to a 2003 domain controller? 
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Sorry, one more question. Do I have to run forestprep and domain prep or is that only if I am promoting to a 2003 domain controller?

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only if you are making a domain controller. &nbsp;2003 is really a more stable XP Server - you don't need to do anything special to add your XP clients, right?
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only if you are making a domain controller.  2003 is really a more stable XP Server - you don't need to do anything special to add your XP clients, right?

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I &nbsp;have a Windows 2000 Server environment and I recently purchased a Windows 2003 server. Can I still leave the network environment as is with a 2000 server as the domain controller and add a 2003 server as a member server? Later, I will upgrade the entire network to WIndows 2003, but not for another month or two. If this will create problems, then I will wait. I look forward to your answer. Thanks.
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I  have a Windows 2000 Server environment and I recently purchased a Windows 2003 server. Can I still leave the network environment as is with a 2000 server as the domain controller and add a 2003 server as a member server? Later, I will upgrade the entire network to WIndows 2003, but not for another month or two. If this will create problems, then I will wait. I look forward to your answer. Thanks.

Adding Windows 2003 Member Server to a Windows 2000 Server Domain Controller environment

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.