Virtualize 2 DC to create the test environment

Hi guys,.

I wonder if someone could help me find a solution.

I mainly want to improve our main DC - which holds Exchange 2000 (Yes, I know DC should not accommodate exchange roles, but this has been done before coming here)-between Windows 2000 and 2003, and then later this year, I'm going to buy a few new servers and migrate completely (and virtualize!) for 2008 and properly put in place the field.  So before you go ahead and perform the upgrade on our production servers, I thought that I would give to virtualize the domain controller using the VMWare converter. Everything seemed to happen, but when I pulled to the top of the virtual machine (in an environment test, completely isolated from true DC) and ran "adprep /forestprep" he said that he did not because he could not replicate to the schema master role is maintained on our other DC.  No problem, I thought, I'll just do a virtual schema master computer and connect them and everything will be fine.  Of course, then the replication failed between the two virtual machines, because the USN differed so I know now that it is not as simple as that.

What I want to know is the following: is there anyway I can get my scenario of two DC in a virtual environment to test the updates on WITHOUT cold clone? I'm just saying that I want to do without cold cloning because our main DC took 13 hours to fully virtualize it.  I know I can get round to again the error USN downgrade our second DC and then perform the other steps to do, but I want it to be close as possible DC production simulation and production servers can replicate perfectly, so this step will apply when I do my real upgrade.

Any thoughts on how / if I can achieve this?

Thanks for any thoughts.

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