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Hi Experts<br />
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There were two Windows 2003 servers on the domain ( server01 and server 02). When I arived in this morning I discovered that Server 02 has failed completely and will not boot thus leaving me with server01. I attemped to join the new 2008 server to the domain and I get the message that domain does not exist although I can clearly see AD on Server01. When I go to Active Sirectory Domains and trusts and check the operations master it says ERROR in Domain Naming Operations Master box and I cannot conntect to the domain. &nbsp;Any suggestions welcome!
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Thanks to All experts, I managed to resolve the problem
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Hi Experts<br />
We have a Windows 2003 Std Server on our school network. &nbsp;We also have a Windows Server 2008 Std R2 server that we are not using at the moment. &nbsp;The Windows 2003 Server is the domain controller but it's giving us problems and I want to retire it. I would like to setup the Windows 2008 Server to take over the roles of the Windows Server 2003 box. &nbsp;How can I do this?
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Hi Experts
We have a Windows 2003 Std Server on our school network.  We also have a Windows Server 2008 Std R2 server that we are not using at the moment.  The Windows 2003 Server is the domain controller but it's giving us problems and I want to retire it. I would like to setup the Windows 2008 Server to take over the roles of the Windows Server 2003 box.  How can I do this?

Windows Server 2003 - How can I retire this and prmote a Win 2008 R2 Srv to PDC?

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).