RE: Migrating from Win2k DC's to Win2k3 DC's; ADPrep question
- From: "sketchy" <sketchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:54:03 -0700
Let my try to clarify my position.
First, with regards to exchange (but getting off the subject of my original
question). Running Exchange 2003 on and Windows 2000 server is the ONLY way
to do an in-place upgrade of an exchange server. E2k will not run on an
Windows 2003 server. More info on this subject can be found at:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321648
The ONLY reason I mentioned anything about my exchange box (a seperate Win2k
member server running E2k3 that is and has been running perfectly) is the
process of running ADPREP. So in other words, let us forget about the
ellement of the Exchange server. ...I simply wanted to know if what I ran
already extended the schema for the Win2k3 AD in general. (I am still
looking for the specific documentation that guided me on this).
Based off of your response though, it sounds like I should plan on running
the ADPREP commands anyway. ...I looked for the log file that you suggested
on the domain controllers, and could not find them, so it's probably safest
to go ahead and run it.
Thank you for your assistance on this. Much appreciated.
--
Sketchy
"Amanda Wang [MSFT]" wrote:
> 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
>
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> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >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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