Re: Windows 2003 R2 SP2 and ForestPrep Not Working

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On Apr 10, 3:28 pm, "AndyJ" <andyjone...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All

I Just came across a funny in that when I attempted to perform a
forestprep on one of our DCs that had Windows 2003 R2 SP2 on, it would
not work. I got the familiar error warning regarding incompatible
versions of windows as you normally do but I was not allowed to
continue on as the box was greyed out. I tried this on several DCs all
of them had SP2 on and same issue. I decided as a last resort to
remove SP2 and try again and it all worked fine as I would of
expected.

Is this a known issue? I could not find anything after googling for
some time

Cheers

AJ

Forgot to mention its 64Bit version of Windows 2003 R2 on the DCs

.



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