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Upgrade AD Domain and Functional level to 2003 with 2000 servers present
I currently have an active directory environment where all of my domain controllers are Windows Server 2003 or later. I want to upgrade my domain and forest functional levels to Windows Server 2003 so that I can install Exchange 2010
My environment is fairly large and I believe I may have one or more Windows 2000 servers operating though they are NOT domain controllers. Will they be affected by this change? I'm looking to find some documentation from Microsoft that states this explicitly.
Thanks very much for your help.
My environment is fairly large and I believe I may have one or more Windows 2000 servers operating though they are NOT domain controllers. Will they be affected by this change? I'm looking to find some documentation from Microsoft that states this explicitly.
Thanks very much for your help.
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Juan Ocasio
If they are not DCs then it should be no problem. They would be regular member servers. It would be a problem if you were going to try to promote them to DCs
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Windows Server 2003
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).
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