New Win2000 PDC

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We are setting up a new Win2000 PDC, and want to know how to get all of the user profiles from the old PDC to the new one. We don't want to have to recreate all 20+ profiles on each individual NT workstation. I have seen a suggestion of putting the new machine on the network, making it the BDC, then upgrading it to PDC and taking down the old PDC. I may answer my own question here, but I need to know if this solution will work.

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Is this a NT domain or a Windows 2000 domain (is the other Domain
Controller Windows 2000 or Windows NT)?

Windows 2000 does not have the concept of BDC/PDC, just domain controllers.
If this is a Windows 2000 domain all you need to do is add the new server
to the domain as a member server, then run DCPromo to make it a domain
controller. Once this is completed and working you should run DCPRomo on
the old DC to remove the DC role from it and make it only a member server.

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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We are setting up a new Win2000 PDC, and want to know how to get all of

the user profiles from the old PDC to the new one. We don't want to have
to recreate all 20+ profiles on each individual NT workstation. I have
seen a suggestion of putting the new machine on the network, making it the
BDC, then upgrading it to PDC and taking down the old PDC. I may answer my
own question here, but I need to know if this solution will work.