When your users log into their computers, do they have two boxes to fill in information(username/password) or do they have three (username/password/domain). If three, then that's the whole trick, that third box.

Three boxes, Domain is CONNE_RIVER. I am replacing the domain controller with this new machine.

[orange"Domain" means the domain controller. You're replacing that domain controller and you have to migrate its security database over to the new box and promote the new box to a PDC.

The only thing that I am really fuzzy on now is this:
The old box is named SERVER, how can i connect the new server with name SERVER to the same DOMAIN to migrate the Security Database? Is there something I am totally missing out on here? Should I be using a temporary Win2k server named (i.e.) SERVER2 to migrate the data to first? Then remove the original SERVER and replace it with the new SERVER. Promote the new SERVER to PDC and then dump the temporary SERVER2.

Anyone wanna drop by with a 2-4 this weekend?

Rene