Hi All,

We are wanting to use IT Edition to image a DC (windows 2000) , old hardware to new hardware 

I saw on the knowledge base (Documnet ID:20070508-0001) that they suggest using the F8 option on reboot to enter AD Restore Mode.

Anyone done this, any other pitfalls I should be aware of? 

Cheers

Jeff 

Greetings to down under...

Yes I have done things like this many times. If the DC is your only DC then you can ignore F8 and such. Google for "ntds "DSA Previous Restore Count"" (exactly this search with double ticks around DSA...Count). It should work pretty well right out of the box. Your old ethernet NIC may still have its settings in the system provoking error that some IP is still used. Try this in a batch:

@echo off

set DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS=1
set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1

start %SystemRoot%\system32\devmgmt.msc

and tick "Show hidden devices" (haven't touched a 2k machine in a while though so this may not work on 2k this way). It will show you abandoned devices in dev manager and thus let you delete them.

 Hi bsdice,

we have 2 DC's both windows 2000 ( 2003 domain upgrade in a couple of weeks ) . .

we are replacing one of the DC's because the server is real old . . .

so from what I've read, I need to do this

1. Image my current DC that I wish to replace with IT Edition, leave it off the newtwork
2. Restore the image onto my new server ( off the network )
3. Boot into AD Restore mode. (F8 ) (still off the network )
4. Fix the NIC Card with the same I/P as the old server
5. Reboot into normal windows mode on the network and let the other DC's replicate the correct information.
6. Image my new server.

What do you reckon? 

Jeff 

 I never tried this with Win2k DCs. Google for "Database restored from backup" and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters, this is what works in Win2k3 between your steps 4 and 5 to mark the imaged DC non authoritive and prevent USN rollback hell. I don't know if that works for Win2k though. I think we migrated the last DC like 3 or 4 years ago over to 2k3 where many many bugs are fixed and there is only mild pain doing GPOs for XP (and even Vista to a certain extent).