Best Way to Recover from Failed Windows 2003 Domain Upgrade?

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Subject:Best Way to Recover from Failed Windows 2003 Domain Upgrade?
Posted by: Eric Robinson (eric{nospam}@pmcipa.com)
Date:Tue, 27 Feb 2007

Before we upgrade our Windows 2000 native-mode domain to Windows 2003, what
is the best way to ensure that we can recover in case something goes wrong?
We have 2 DCs running W2K SP4. One is many years old. The other is newer and
has all FSMO roles. If we do an in-place upgrade of the newer DC and
something goes wrong part way through, can we simply re-image the DC with a
Ghost image taken before we started the upgrade? Is there a better way?

--Eric

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