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Integrated Windows Authentication on a member server

Author
19 May 2005 4:50 PM
John
I am getting ready to upgrade our domain from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
I have a web server that is running Windows 2000 and is currently a DC which
will not be upgraded.  The Windows 2000 web server hosts our Intranet site
and uses Integrated Windows Authentication to validate users.  I plan on
demoting the web server to a member server, removing it from the Windows
2000 domain, then adding it to the new Windows 2003 domain as a member
server.

Will Integrated Windows Authentication still work in this scenario?  I want
to make sure that IIS 5 running on a Windows 2000 member server in a Windows
2003 domain can still validate users through AD on a Windows 2003 DC that is
a separate server.

John

Author
19 May 2005 5:28 PM
Tom Kaminski [MVP]
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"John" <nob***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>I am getting ready to upgrade our domain from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
>I have a web server that is running Windows 2000 and is currently a DC
>which will not be upgraded.  The Windows 2000 web server hosts our Intranet
>site and uses Integrated Windows Authentication to validate users.  I plan
>on demoting the web server to a member server, removing it from the Windows
>2000 domain, then adding it to the new Windows 2003 domain as a member
>server.
>
> Will Integrated Windows Authentication still work in this scenario?  I
> want to make sure that IIS 5 running on a Windows 2000 member server in a
> Windows 2003 domain can still validate users through AD on a Windows 2003
> DC that is a separate server.

As long as the server is a member of the domain it will work.

Author
20 May 2005 9:52 AM
WenJun Zhang[msft]
Yes, the integrated authentication will work with the new 2003 domain
accounts.

Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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