SP4 on Domain Controllers

[Guest]

We are about to upgrade all the DCs in our forest from SP3 to SP4. We have one parent domain and one child domain. Is there any preferred order to do this, such as "Do all root DCs first, then child DCs?"?? We also plan to string these upgrades over a 2-week period, so for some time we will have some DCs with SP3 and some with SP4 - any issue with this

I haven't seen anything like this in Microsoft's docs, but wanted to ask....thanks!

 

[David Swales]

Only consideration I can think of is ensuring the Exchange
2000 server gets matching SPs numbers, otherwise future
SPs for Exchange won't "take".
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David

-----Original Message-----
We are about to upgrade all the DCs in our forest from

SP3 to SP4. We have one parent domain and one child
domain. Is there any preferred order to do this, such
as "Do all root DCs first, then child DCs?"?? We also
plan to string these upgrades over a 2-week period, so for
some time we will have some DCs with SP3 and some with
SP4 - any issue with this?

 

[David Brandt [MSFT]]

As indicated, it probably shouldn't make any difference, but given that you
can pick and choose who to do first, and it doesn't matter to you the order,
for grins and giggles, I'd probably do the pdc/s in each domain first, then
other fsmo holders, then the rest. You probably don't have a single label
dns domain name, but just be aware if you do, that with sp4 dns
registrations will start failing;
300684 Information About Configuring Windows 2000 for Domains With
Single-Label
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300684

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Microsoft Corporation

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[Guest]

Sounds fine - thanks!