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Hey Guys,<br />
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I really appreciate the prompt response on this. &nbsp;I'll get on it as soon as I get those servers in which should be monday or tuesday and start with that and let you guys know.
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Hey Guys,

I really appreciate the prompt response on this.  I'll get on it as soon as I get those servers in which should be monday or tuesday and start with that and let you guys know.

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I have a Windows 2003 Standard R2 Server that is presently AD, DNS, DCHP, Exchange 2003 Std, Veritas Backup Exec, Print Serving, and File Serving and recently recovered from a system failure. This finally convinced my boss to buy me 4 servers to separate all these services off of this one machine. &nbsp;I have built a server running windows 2003 std r2 so that i can dedicate it just to AD. what steps should I take to promote the new one and demote the old one?
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I have a Windows 2003 Standard R2 Server that is presently AD, DNS, DCHP, Exchange 2003 Std, Veritas Backup Exec, Print Serving, and File Serving and recently recovered from a system failure. This finally convinced my boss to buy me 4 servers to separate all these services off of this one machine.  I have built a server running windows 2003 std r2 so that i can dedicate it just to AD. what steps should I take to promote the new one and demote the old one?

How do I promote a win2003 dc to primary?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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