Migration of the domain controller Active Directory of windows 2000 server to a Server 2008.

I have an old machine that is running Windows 2000 server and it's our only one domain controller in a mixed 2000/2003/2008 server environment. I would like to move to one of the servers 2008 Active Directory and make the PDC and withdraw from the old box of 2000.

I saw a sea of documentation about the updated/move ActiveDirectory, but no clear examples of what I need to accomplish.

Can I do a dcpromo on a 2003 server, synchronization of the 2000 box, retire the 2000 Server, then dcpromo th 2008 Server 2003 Server? I know this may seem simplistic to a complicated procedure, but I have not really found anything to support...

A simple link to a procedure taken care of step by step would be great.

Thanks for all the ideas in advance.
Mike

The Forum Windows Server would be the appropriate forum for your inquiry.

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