To give you a little background:

We have finally decided to upgrade our main Active Directory/Fileserver to new hardware. The old machine is on its last legs and we have purchased new hardware and have a copy of Win2k server on it. I have been looking around on how to restore active directory on the new machine from the system state of the old machine and have only found the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...t1/dsgch09.asp

Now, it only has a small section about restoring active directory to a different machine than the system state was taken from so I want to ask, has anyone done this before? Should the new server be a backup domain controller before attempting the system state restore?