[dfratus]

I need to upgrade my current pdc (133mhz, 42mb, 1gb, etc..)

I already have a better machine to replace the current which i installed as a bdc, but I have read there are lots of pitfalls of promoting a bdc to pdc and such. does anyone know of any certain side effects of promoting a bdc? any articles i should read before proceeding? any advice appreciated

[AndyFair]

Assuming the BDC is working fine, and is totally integrated with the PDC, there shouldn't be any major gotchas.
Just be sure that any settings you've got on the PDC (DHCP, WINS, user profiles, logon scripts etc.) are copied over to the new machine.
All you need to do is power down the PDC, promote the BDC, then power up the old PDC - it will come back as a BDC.
I would leave this setup running for a few days (new PDC and old PDC as the BDC) just to make sure that everything is OK before you turn the power off for good...

Rgds
AndyF

[adamvjackson]

There's no DCPROMO in NT4.

[adamvjackson]

I highly doubt it, since I'm pretty sure that the W2k version of DCPROMO has some serious hooks into the low levels of the OS.

I just took our last NT4 server offline about 3 months ago, that was such a relief.