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Can you make a Server 2008 machine a Domain Controller in an existing SBS 2003 domain?
Can you make a Server 2008 machine a Domain Controller in an existing SBS 2003 domain? We have a Server 2008 machine (disjoined from domain). The existing domain is a SBS 2003 one. The DC is running SBS 2003 SP2. I want to know if I can promote the Server 2008 machine in the existing SBS domain? This 2008 server is currently installed on a VMware platform on a physical serevr that will be shipped to one of the remote offices. the existing SBS 2003 DC will be upgraded (at some point) to Server 2008.
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Thanks Ryan. Actually the SBS 2003 server in VA will be getting upgraded itself to a Server 2008 at some point in the near future as a result of these limitations you discussed. But in our current environment, what choices do we have for the NY server? Do you need to first upgrade the existing SBS 2003 server to a 2008 schema and then upgrade to 2008 first? Any help would be greatly appreciated. We are at a stopping point on this project because I can not dcpromo the NY server to be a domain controller in the current environment. The server will be eventually shipped to the NY office and will act as a primary server for NY users and a backup for the VA users. The NY users will authenticate to the NY domain but there will be a site to site VPN setup in the event the NY or VA DC fails. What can we do?
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Thanks. NY will be on the SAME domain as the VA office (hence why we set up the site to site VPN). What I meant by primary server is that the 6 users in NY will authenticate first to the NY DC and then if it goes down, it will look to VA for authentication purposes. Right now, however, I have Server 2008 installed on a virtual machine (disjoined from domain) and would like to try to promote as a DC but after what you mentioned about the time bomb it will start with SBS server. My boss's thinking was that it may kick off some sort of timer before some adverse effects starting happening.
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See I was getting confused by your answer because I saw these articles:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708131.aspx
http://www.techfornonprofits.com/blogger/2007/12/windows-2008-server-joining-my-existing.html
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/10/04/debunking-the-myth-about-additional-domain-controllers-replica-dcs-in-an-sbs-domain.aspx
That said we can have multiple DC's in an SBS environment. Can you please confirm or deny these suggestions? Thanks. I want to know what the next steps are for this NY server.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708131.aspx
http://www.techfornonprofits.com/blogger/2007/12/windows-2008-server-joining-my-existing.html
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/10/04/debunking-the-myth-about-additional-domain-controllers-replica-dcs-in-an-sbs-domain.aspx
That said we can have multiple DC's in an SBS environment. Can you please confirm or deny these suggestions? Thanks. I want to know what the next steps are for this NY server.
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No problem. I just wanted to verify with you. So after reading the technet artilce you do see that it IS possible to have another DC on a SBS 2003 domain, right? So your recommendation would be to join to the domain, and follow the article?
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Agree with Leew comments you can have additional dc's in SBS environment but it can't hold the FSMo roles.
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