Windows 2003 Migration

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Windows 2003 Migration
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Windows 2003 Migration

• Eric Galyon
• Eric.Galyon_at_ColoState.Edu
• 1-7733

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Overview

• Review of Windows 2003 Training
• Migration Planning
• Whats Next?

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Overview

• Review of Windows 2003 Training
• Migration Planning
• Whats Next?

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What Features and Technologies are Affected by
Migration?

• Some new W2K3 features are available without
  upgrading the forest
• Others require the W2K forest to be upgraded to
  W2K3
• Still others require that every Domain Controller
  in the forest be upgraded to W2K3

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New Features and Technologies

• Improved Replication
• Improvements to multi-value/linked value
  replication between Domain Controllers and Global
  Catalog servers
• Improved replication topology generation
• Examples replication at attribute level and
  granular replication of multi-valued attributes
  such as group membership
• Every Domain Controller must be W2K3

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New Features and Technologies

• Application Directory Partitions
• Active Directory information can now be
  partitioned and replicated to only the necessary
  Domain Controllers instead of forest wide
• Requires a W2K3 forest

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New Features and Technologies

• Schema Enhancements
• InetOrgPerson support
• Deactivation of attributes and classes
• Requires a W2K3 forest

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New Features and Technologies

• Group Policy Enhancements
• More than 200 new settings
• Better management through resultant set of policy
  and new GPO Management Console
• The new settings require a W2K3 forest
• The better management does not require a W2K3
  forest

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New Features and Technologies

• Restructuring and Renaming Forests
• Can rename both DNS domain name and NetBIOS
  domain name
• Looks very hard, requires coordination of all
  Domain Administrators. Would we ever consider
  doing this?
• Every Domain Controller must be W2K3

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New Features and Technologies

• Many New Command Line Tools
• schtasks, netdom, netsh, GPResult, logman,
  TypePerf, wmic, etc.
• Available for Windows XP and Windows 2003 Servers
• Almost all can be used within a Windows 2000
  forest

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New Features and Technologies

• Improved Administration MMC Tools
• Improvements to User and Computers, DNS Admin,
  WINS, DFS
• Can be installed on Windows XP and Windows 2003
  Servers
• Enhanced tools can be used to manage a Windows
  2000 domain as well as a Windows 2003 domain

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New Features and Technologies

• Terminal Server Client Enhancements (Remote
  Desktop Client 5.2)
• Enhancements to color depth and resolution,
  redirection of local resources, performance,
  remote control of console, and mapping of local
  keys to remote desktop
• The enhanced client can be used on Windows XP,
  Windows 2003, and even Windows 2000 to connect to
  Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Terminal Servers

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New Features and Technologies

• Terminal Server Enhancements
• TS Administrative Mode has been replaced by
  Remote Desktop.
• Enhanced TS administrator MMC
• GPOs can be used to configure TS farms
• Some enhancements (such as the MMC) do not
  require a W2K3 forest
• Other enhancements (such as the GPO management)
  will not work until the forest is upgraded to W2K3

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New Features and Technologies

• Shadow Copy
• Creates a Journaling or Snapshot style file
  system to allow easy document recovery
• Clients can be Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP and
  Windows 2003 Server
• Server must be Windows 2003 Server
• Does not require a W2K3 forest

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New Features and Technologies

• IIS 6.0 Enhancements
• Improved performance, security (locked down by
  default), application isolation, deadlock
  detection and recovery, and manageability (for
  example, the metabase is now an XML file)
• These enhancements do not require a W2K3 forest

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New Features and Technologies Summary

• Benefits of W2K3 without forest upgrade
• IIS 6.0
• Remote Desktop Client 5.2
• Adminpak tools
• Command line tools
• Shadow Copy

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New Features and Technologies Summary

• Benefits of W2K3 with forest upgrade
• Additional GPO features
• TS management through GPOs
• Application Directory Partitions
• Schema Enhancements

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New Features and Technologies Summary

• Benefits of W2K3 forest with all W2K3 DCs
• Improved Replication
• Domain rename (?!?)

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Overview

• Review of Windows 2003 Training
• Migration Planning
• Whats Next?

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Migration Goals

• Allow early adopters to install Windows 2003
  Domain Controllers as soon as possible
• Ensure late adopters will not experience adverse
  affects during the migration

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How do we balance these conflicting goals?
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Overview

• Review of Windows 2003 Training
• Migration Planning
• Whats Next?

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Whats Next?

• Contact etg_at_colostate.edu if you want/can join
  the W2K3 testing group
• The W2K3 testing group will meet June 19 at 1000
  AM in the ACNS conference room.
• Go back and talk to your IT department about this
  strategy.
• Eric- send summary message to subnetmgrs