Session Summary

This session will discuss how to plan for and complete the domain controller promotion (DCPromo) process. It will also cover the various troubleshooting procedures that you can use to resolve any issues that may occur when you use the DCPromo tool.

This is a Level 200 (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http%3a%2f%2fsupport.microsoft.com%2fservicedesks%2fwebcasts%2flevels.asp) session that was recorded June 20, 2000 and presented by Edward Gomes and Mike Resnick. Edward started at Microsoft in October 1999. He began with the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 team and now works for the Windows 2000 Directory Services team. Prior to working at Microsoft, he was with one of Microsoft's partner companies for a couple of years supporting the Windows NT 4.0 IP/RAS team and the Domains team. Mike left a family-run business to join Microsoft for the Windows 95 launch. He is a Support Professional who has served in several roles at Microsoft, including Duty Manager, Lead, and Mentor. He has been part of the Windows NT Domains team and is currently focused on the Windows 2000 Directory Services team for Microsoft Platform Support (MPS).

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Supplemental reading:

•	Chapter 1-3 in the Windows 2000 Server "Distributed Systems Guide" in the Resource Kit
•	Chapter 10 in the Windows 2000 Server "Distributed Systems Guide" in the Resource Kit
•	Migration Domain Controllers to Windows 2000 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/migrating.htm)
•	Planning Migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/win2ksrv/w2migrt.mspx)
•	WINDOWS 2000 DNS White Paper (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/plan/w2kdns2.mspx)
•	Q237675 Setting Up the Domain Name System for Active Directory (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q237675)
•	Name Space planning (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q254680)

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