2003 GC in 2000 AD

Hello Harrison,

You can run 2000 and 2003 DC's together, no problem. The only thing what
you have to keep in mind is that you can not raise Domain/Forest functional
levels to use new features.

See here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738670.aspx


Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Meinolf:
>
> Thanks for your reply. I found KB 325379 "How to upgrade Windows
> 2000 domain controllers to Windows Server 2003" which goes in depth
> and is very good. I am testing everything in my lab right now. For
> any others reading this post you should read this article!
>
> I am sure I am right on this, but once I do the "adprep /forestprep"
> and "adprep /domainprep" I should be fine to have a mix of 2000 and
> 2003 AD servers. I am sure I am right was curious what you would say?
>
> Harrison
>
> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:ff16fb66e4ae8cb17e8d9d4fc38@msnews.microsoft.com...
>
>> Hello Harrison,
>>
>> On the 2000 DC which has the schema master role run adprep
>> /forestprep and adprep /domainprep to prepare the schema for 2003
>> with an account that is member of the schema admins. You have to run
>> the command from the 2003 installation disk. After that is done you
>> can promote the 2003 server to domain controller. Just promoting the
>> server will not make it GC, in AD sites and services double-click
>> sitename, double-click Servers, click your domain controller,
>> right-click NTDS Settings, and then click Properties, on the General
>> tab, click to select the Global catalog check box.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
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>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> My Domain Is 2000 AD. In order to do RPC over HTTPS I need to have
>>> a 2003 GC on the network. Can I just run DCPROMO on a 2003 server
>>> and promote it? This would make it a 2003 GC wouldn't it?
>>>
>>> Harrison
>>>