Migrating DHCP from 2000 to 2003

I have found 2 articles on how to perform this action.

Microsoft Article ID: 325473 - Last Review: March 27, 2007 - Revision: 19.5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473 shows how to perform this action.

A tech republic article was written by William C. Schmied
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5034284.html (wrote from
2002-03-19 to 2004-12-28) and only had 3 responses that were questions or
statements. No comments about actually using or having success with these
instructions were found.

While the article written up in Tech Republic sounds nice and easy, I must
ask if it is too good to be true. Why would the Microsoft KB article be so
different? There has got to be some type of caveat.

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Thanks for your help...without I.T. folks willing to help out other I.T.
folks, things would never get done.

My issue is that I need to make certain that any DHCP databases do not get
corrupted on the new 2003 server. The methods that are used in the microsoft
article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473 are completely different that
that in TechRepublic
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5034284.html. I need to
know why. I have another person in the politics/rack that is going to use
the TechRepuiblic method on a production server. I have to make absolutely
certain that all DHCP related files/folders/databases/etc do not get
corrupted. Without a knowledgeable and professional answer, I may be
rebuilding a server because someone at the rack did not want to listen. My
gut tells me that TechRepublic is incorrect, as they just copy folders and
make a couple regedits. Microsoft discusses extracting and importing
databases using certain tools. I need to know the reason why they are so
different.
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Thanks for your help...without I.T. folks willing to help out other I.T.
folks, things would never get done.


"dkumar" wrote:

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> Look like both the solution is similar. Better go for MS article. You
> can revert any time in case of failure. Just stop the DHCP service in
> win2k3 and start the same in 2k server.
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