Hi Everybody, I was wondering if any of you could provide a detailed recap of
what would be needed in this scenario...

I have a small domain - 8 workstations hooked up to a dc that's running on
an old dell workstation (hence the desire to upgrade it). The dc is also my
dns, dhcp, ris, gc, file and print server. Now, I have seen some excellent
articles by many of you on ms.public.windowsnt when it comes to moving DCs
alone. My impression is that I should add the new box as another dc, move
fsmo roles, and make it a gc.... (just stop me when I stop making sense).
Then I demote the old server and things magically continue running
Somewhere in between I also enable DNS on the new server and if I correctly
setup my zones, the replication will also happen on its own.

What about dhcp? How about exporting the volume structure of my current box
to continue its file and print server role without interruption? My current
pdc uses 2 80gb drives in a dynamic/mirror environment, with each having
about 4 partitions - system, sysvol, userfiles, applications + non-mirrored
swap...

To complicate matters further, after doing all of this I would like to
change the name/ip address of the new pdc to what the current one is. Should
this happen somewhere in between to make things easier.

I have tried cloning my current pdc (i know, i know....) but it just would
not work - both Symantec and Acronis products failed (my guess being the fact
that I'm going from p2-500/256ram/ide drive to p4-3g/1024ram/sata2 and the
h/w difference was too great). But time seemed a factor at first and well,
now it doesn't.

If it s, I can bring down the entire domain indefinitely. What's
important is that userprofiles and shares remain the same.

Thanks a million!
Thomas J.