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First 2008 Domain Controller in a 2003 domain with an empty forest root

I've already practiced the procedure of adding the first 2k8 DC to a 2k3 domain in my lab (ADPrep, DCPromo, etc). However, the production environment I have to upgrade has an empty forest root (root.com being the empty forest root and company.com being the domain I want to add the first 2k8 DC to.

Do I have to add a 2k8 DC to the empty forest root domain (root.com), or can I just add the first 2k8 DC to the child domain (company.com?

Mike Kline

Either way works fine, there is no order as to what domain needs the first 2k8 box

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Mike

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Awinish

Since Schema & domain naming master roles are forest wide,so let it be there is n number of domain but these two roles are going to be common for all the domain in forest,so it can be run on any dc with particular FSMO roles.

See the below link.

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2008/03/02/transitioning-your-active-directory-to-windows-server-2008.aspx

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Mike Kline

Yes but his question was does he have to add the new 2008 box to the parent or the child domain...answer is it doesn't matter either one is fine.

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