Migrating to 2008 Domain from 2003

[broyles]

Hi all,

 

I am currently in the process of migrating our current 2003 R2 domain to 2008 I have tested this in a small virtual enviroment and it seemed to go ok......

 

Just wondered on your view on this

 

If I have all the 5 fsmo roles on 1 virtual server and back that up before the migration. If it went wrong would I be able to power that back on and forcefully remove the other dcs from the domain so that server takes over the domain roles and we will still be on 2003-r2???

 

How ever if it does go ok, I will let you know!

 

Thanks

 

Brett

[Geoff]

Yes that's correct. It's your get out of jail card if things go wrong.

[broyles]

Thanks for that Geoff thought that was the case... I love vmware

[broyles]

ok all,

 

I have done the following :-

 

adprep /forestprep

adprep /domainprep

adprep /domainprep /gprep

adprep /rodcprep

 

And added the 2008 server to the domain ;-)

 

All for now seems ok :-D and I am heading home to duck for cover :grin:

 

Brett