In this procedure we will see how to install a server with S.O. MS Windows 2003, How to update a domain 2000 a 2003 and how to promote this server to Domain Controller. To do this, we boot a PC with the Windows CD 2003 and in the BIOS enabled CD boot.

Once the appropriate RAID has been carried out, we boot the Server with the Windows CD 2003 on the server drive and check that the BIOS has the CD as the boot drive. We will get the Windows version 2003 to be installed, we will choose option B, the Standard.

As soon as you enter option B, press F6 to enter the RAID drivers (if we have it), We insert it with a floppy disk and continue the installation.
Press ENTER to install Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition

F8 To accept the license (If we agree).

Partitioning the hard drive or volume. We will create a partition for the SYSTEM (about 7Gb), Another SWAP (2GB) and another for DATA (The rest). The SWAP partition will contain the temps plus the paging file.

Start copying files...

Keep installing...

On this screen we will check that we have the keyboard well (Español – Traditional) and click Next.

Select the Machine Name and Organization.

Enter the Windows key 2003 and click Next.

We select the type of licensing, whether the licenses are held by the server or by the Clients themselves. In this case we put 150 Server Licenses.

Select the name of the SERVER and choose a password for the Administrator user.

We check the date, Time and time zone.

In the network settings we will indicate that it will be personalized.

Select the TCP/IP protocol and click on the Properties.

We indicate a fixed IP, With his mask, your gateway and your DNS's. Accept.

We put him in the Domain to which he is going to belong, since it will then be a domain controller. It will ask us for a user with permissions to do so, we tell you and this server will belong to the domain.

When you restart this computer, a Windows computer would already be installed 2003 in the Windows domain 2000, now what would be needed is to prepare this Windows 2003 to be a future Domain Controller.

To do this, we will install the necessary and optional components, DNS, WINS, Terminal Services, DHCP... from Add or Remove Windows Components.

Once the Windows server is ready 2003 to be a domain controller, First of all, you have to prepare or update the domain 2000 a 2003, To do this, we will run the adprep tool from any DC in the domain 2000. First we will do an adprep /domainprep

Once this is done, we will make an adprep /forestprep. This process will take longer.

Once the adprep is successfully performed on a Windows DC 2000, we will proceed to install the DA on the Windows machine 2003, To do this, we will execute DCPROMO.

We will get an assistant to guide us, Following.

He tells us the equipment that will not work in the current domain, What are they: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 with SP3 or earlier. IT'S IMPORTANT.

We will indicate that it is going to be joined to an existing domain and will not be a new one, for this we choose the second option.

Place to store the DA databases.

Location of the Sysvol.

In this field we will indicate the password that should be asked when we want to uninstall the DA of this computer or enter SD restore mode..

Next if everything is correct.

This process will take a few minutes

Finished successfully.

We restart the server and this new DC would already be configured.