RE: Migrating from Win2k DC's to Win2k3 DC's; ADPrep question

Hello,

Thanks for your post.

I understand you want to know how to check if you have run the ADPREP
command. If I have misunderstood, please feel free to let me know.

Based on my experience, Exchange 2k3 cannot be installed on win2k server.
If it is an in-place upgrade, you need to upgrade win2k to win2k3 first and
then upgrade Exchange.

If it is not a in-place upgrade, you need to install win2k3 member server
in a new machine, on old win2k server, run adprep/forestprep to extend
win2k schema to win2k3, then promote win2k3 member to be a DC.

Run exchange forestprep, then install Exchange 2k3 on the new win2k3 server.

Also You mentioned that you may have run ADPREP command when you upgraded
Exchange 2000 serer to Exchange 2003. When upgrading Exchange, the
commands you have run from Exchange 2003 media only for Exchange and it is
only extend the Exchange schema. Therefore, when upgrading Win2k3, you
must run adprep command from \I386 folder of the Windows Server 2003 media
and this prepares for a Windows 2000 forest and its domains for the
addition of Windows Server 2003 domain controllers and extends the Win2k3
schema.

The schema and infrastructure operations masters are used to introduce
forest and domain-wide schema changes to the forest and its domains that
are made by the Windows Server 2003 adprep utility.

Please refer to the following KB article and pay more attention to the
content related to adprep in this article:

How to upgrade Windows 2000 domain controllers to Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325379

Also, if you want to check if the adprep command has been run before, you
can check ADprep.log file in the
C:\WINNT\system32\debug\adprep\logs\20040617142836 directory for more
information.

HTH!

Thanks & Regards

Amanda Wang [MSFT]

Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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>I'm planning to move my domain controller responsibilities from two
>antiquated Win2k DC's to some new servers that will be running Win2k3,
then
>retiring the two old boxes. I've been reading up as much as I can on
this,
>but do have a question inre to the ADPREP commands that I need to run.
>
>The documentation states that one needs to run ADPREP /FORESTPREP then
>ADPREP /DOMAINPREP before proceeding further. It states that you should
only
>run this once however, implying that bad things happen if you do this more
>than once. The problem is that I believe I ran these same commands when I
>upgraded my Exchange 2000 serer to Exchange 2003 (It's still running
Windows
>2000), but can't remember for sure. Is there a command or a switch to the
>ADPREP command that will allow me to check to see if my schema has already
>been updated?
>
>--
>Sketchy
>

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