Re: adprep command to promot new domain controller

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On further investegation, my domain controller(s) have SP 2 installed. When
I tried to run adprep on the forest root domain controller it appeared as if
was the adprep program that would prepare the forest for Win2000 NOT Win2003.

And my server has a cd drive and won't read my msdn DVD disk I am installing
from.......

"Johnslg" wrote:

Thank you!

My schema is version 30 so I suppose I need to upgrade to 31. I'm wondering
if SP2 was ever installed on my other servers.

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

Hello Johnslg,

To check the schema version run "schupgr" without the quotes on a command
prompt. 13 will be 2000, 30 2003, 31 2003 R2, 44 2008. If you have a 2003
R2 machine which you like to promote yuou have to run the adprep command
from the second R2 disk.

Adprep command will not raise the FFL/DFL, it just prepares the schema for
the new objects delivered with the different versions of windows.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I recently was given the task to manage a small network:
2 domain controllers running Win 2003
2 member servers running Win 2003
Functional level = Win 2000 Mixed
I added another Win 2003 server and tried to promote it to a domain
controller because our second domain controller is also our SQL Server
and it was easier to create a new domain controller on a spare
computer than to move SQL Server to a new server.

I am told that before I can promote the server I must run adprep for
both the forest and domain.

I don't know how we got two Win2003 domain controllers without adprep
ever being run but that is beside the point.

My question:
I am not quite ready to raise the domain functional level - I'm not
sure
what legacy devices might require the current level. Will adprep just
add
the 2003 objects to my schema wihtout raising the functional leval?




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