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How to make a W2K3 domain controller part of a W2K domain

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FreshPrince

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Is it possible to add a windows 2003 server domain controller to a windows 2000 domain without using adprep?

I'm trying to prevent adprep from upgrading my windows 2000 domain if possible. If it is a must, does adprep /forestprep , /domainprep do anything to the existing 2000 domain? we don't have the funds to upgrade this domain to 2003 so we'd like to keep it in 2000.

Is this the only to make a server 2003 based domain controller play in a windows 2000 domain?
 
If you want to make a 2003 server a DC than you need to run adprep against your existing domain. The /forestprep switch updates the domain schema and the /domainprep switch creates a couple needed containers and sets a couple of domain ACLs; these steps need to be performed in order to support a 2003 DC.

Why are you so concerned about performing these steps? I dont know of any cases where these changes have "hurt" anything.

Also keep in mind that if you are running Exchange that you need to update a couple of the Exchange attributes in the schema (Microsoft has released an inf that will do this for you by running ldifde).

See this article on Microsoft's site for more information.

-Erik
 
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