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I am having one customer who is using AD server 2003 his setup details are below:<br />
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BOX 1- PDC<br />
BOX 2- ADC<br />
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Box 1 kept in bulding1<br />
Box 2 kept in building 2<br />
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Box1 having schema master, DNS, DHCP, GC<br />
Box 2 having DNS, DHCP, GC also may be few roles as well.<br />
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Dependent application on AD are below:<br />
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Cisco NAC (clean access)<br />
CX and Exchange.<br />
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we have to migrate his boxes to windows server 2008. please suggest how should i proceed migration for the same.
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I am having one customer who is using AD server 2003 his setup details are below:

BOX 1- PDC
BOX 2- ADC

Box 1 kept in bulding1
Box 2 kept in building 2

Box1 having schema master, DNS, DHCP, GC
Box 2 having DNS, DHCP, GC also may be few roles as well.

Dependent application on AD are below:

Cisco NAC (clean access)
CX and Exchange.

we have to migrate his boxes to windows server 2008. please suggest how should i proceed migration for the same.

Active Directory Migration on windows server 2008

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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).