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Re: NT4 BDC to Win2000 member
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kerem B. Limon)
Wed May 8 14:45:28 2002
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 14:44:09 -0400
To: Tim Recher <timr@MIT.Edu>
From: "Kerem B. Limon" <Kerem.Limon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@MIT.Edu
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Hi, Tim,
The timing of your question is, for lack of a better word, interesting. :)
I don't know if you (or all of the members of the list) are familiar with
the work of the Windows 2000 Domains/Server Discovery Team project that has
been going on for some time now, but we are nearing the day of our
dedicated testing (this coming Fri, 05/10, in fact) when we will be looking
into some such migration/deployment scenarios in a hands-on manner within a
controlled environment. Perhaps some of our findings would be of interest
to you and others in this list when completed; some of the tests are
similar to/involve your question.
There are probably those of you here who attended last Friday's Town
Meeting held by our team, soliciting input on your current Windows domain
(and client) architectures and what you expected/desired from a Windows
2000 architecture; it also attempted to introduce the WinAthena
architecture to those who attended, as well as describing some of the
current technical and policy limitations regarding Windows 2000 Domain
architecture at MIT.
I will not attempt to answer your question directly in this message, but
I'd like to take that in as yet another (albeit unsolicited :) ) input
alongside others we received. I will be able to give you more detailed info
after our testing is complete and I have some more info myself (others are,
of course, welcome to contribute :) ).
If you are interested in this topic and/or our Discovery project, please visit
http://web.mit.edu/is/discvoery/win2k-server/
and information on WinAthena is available at
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/
Regards,
Kerem B. Limon
Information Systems
Support Process
At 14:10 02/05/08 -0400, Tim Recher wrote:
>Is it possible to upgrade an NT4 BDC to Win2000 Server, and in the process
>make it a member server, not a Win2000 domain controller? From what I've
>read, when a BDC is upgraded to Win2000 in an NT4 domain, it just makes
>the Win2000 box a member server and on reboot runs dcpromo, which can then
>be cancelled. However, has anyone ever actually done this/seen it in action?
>
>Thanks,
>Tim
>--
>Tim Recher timr@mit.edu
>Systems Administrator
>MIT Alumni/ae Association
>Phone: 617-253-7008 Fax: 617-252-1641
