In-Depth
Amazing Stories
If your company's considering a migration or
upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to 2000, these true
tales of woe and triumph will help you make the
journey fearlessly.
- By Alan Knowles et al.
- October 01, 2001
You may know how switching from a Windows NT
4.0 environment to Windows 2000 works according
to Microsoft: Upgrade or migrate the PDC, then
the BDCs, then machines, groups and users. Collapse
resource and other domains into a more manageable
domain structure through the use of Organizational
Units. Properly configure DNS, DHCP and possibly
WINS. Stir ingredients together and bake for two
hours at 400 degrees, and you'll have a new, hot,
fresh-out-of-the-oven Win2K network.
In the real world, it's not quite so easy. For
these two IT managers, things were more problematic
than the cut-and-dried Microsoft vision. They
tell you, in their own words, about their adventures
and misadventures in moving from the old to the
new.
And, in an ongoing migration, Melissa Lamoreux
details a careful Win2K migration in "Win2K's
My Destination." When Melissa's team
finally makes the transition, we've asked her
to keep us apprised of any new developments.