Windows® 2000 Active Directory™

Approaches for Upgrading to Active Directory

Upgrading in place is taking your existing Windows NT 4.0 domain and installing Windows 2000 and Active Directory on the same machine. With this type of upgrade, you are ending up with the same type of topology that you started with. If this is true, you should be asking yourself some questions: "Am I really going to be taking advantage of the capabilities of Active Directory?" "Have you put enough time and effort into the Active Directory design to take full advantage of its capabilities?" "Are you able to do something with sites to mitigate network traffic to combine account domains?"

Figure 22.1. Upgrading approaches.

The next approach for upgrading to Active Directory is "upgrade and ...