topic Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003 in Operating System - Microsoft

upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Muhammad Shamroze — Fri, 26 May 2006 04:31:25 GMT

Hello, There is server ML-530, in which RAID 1 is configured on OS, and Os is Windows NT 4.0 and I want to upgrade the server to windows 2003 so please can any body tell me that what steps should be taken while upgrading from windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003 server...please reply me soon..waiting for your reply thank you

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 26 May 2006 08:05:12 GMT

The Microsoft official document is what you can trust:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326209/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815332/en-us

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Jim Kisco — Sat, 27 May 2006 03:22:19 GMT

Basically the best policy is to remove NT4 first ( delete the partition first ), then install Win2003 cleanly. This is more stable. Hang the data and apps at a backup workstation or server before doing this.

Jim

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Ronald Postma — Mon, 29 May 2006 03:41:16 GMT

Hi Muhammed,
Like Jim said, a clean install is much more stabel. but if this is your only Domain controller you can not format it and rebuild it with 2006, you loose all the users, permission settings etc.

What you can do is to install a workstation with Win2003 and add it as an BDC your domain. Also copy recourses like printers to the workstation.
When that works you can shut down you NT4 DC and your network should still function. Then upgrade the Win2003 to a full Win2003 domain, with AD.
Now your network is fully Win2003, then reinstall your NT4 server with a clean install as an aditional DC in your new win2003 domain. Now your domain is upgraded and all the users etc. are still present.

If You recieve problems during with the temporary workstation as server, you can simply connect the NT4 server again and you have your old situation back.

Have a nice day,
HTH, Ronald

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Alan_152 — Tue, 30 May 2006 10:43:05 GMT

see your other thread for my answer...

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Karl Hungus — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:11:33 GMT

Here is a good howto http://www.mattgresko.com/page9/page9.html

Re: upgrade windows NT 4.0 to windows 2003

Muhammad Shamroze — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:22:13 GMT

thanks all for helping me out