Moving Win2k PDC to Win2k3

[LuckyTaxi]

I'm in the process of installing a new PDC on a much better system with Windows 2003 Standard Server. The issue is, our current PDC has Windows 2000 on it. What makes the job kind of easy is the fact that the old admin never completed the project. No one is joined to a domain but at the same time, we want to move to the better hardware and we want to run Windows 2003.

Here's the issue, the Win2k environment consist of 3 member servers that are attached to it. One being Citrix and we can't afford to lose any settings. As for the other servers, I can just rejoin them when I'm ready. I don't want to screw up the Citrix config since users log in via a published app utilizing a user account through the Win2k domain controller.

 

[stash]

First, no such thing as a PDC in Active Directory. Secondly, how you do this depends on what hardware you have available. If you have a second server you can make a DC, install 2003 on that. Run adprep on the existing DC to upgrade the schema and then promote the new 2003 server to a DC. You can then either demote and wipe the 2000 DC, or upgrade it to 2003 and keep it as a second DC (a really good idea), or demote it, wipe it, reload 2003 and promote back to a DC.

You should really have at least two DCs.