Re: Install Windows 2003 R2 in Active Directory

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Take a lok at

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/3f4b9633-234e-465a-b9c4-0e08fe703d1c1033.mspx?mfr=true

Before you install a Windows 2003 domain controller you need to run adprep /forestprep and then adprep /domainprep on the current infrastructure master.

- Jeff

"Mark Olczyk" <molczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e%23KsZeGMIHA.4136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My existing Domain consist of 8 Servers 2003 Enterprise, 2 of those Servers are also Domain Controllers, I just install Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise on my new Dell 2950, and trying to run "dcpromo" but it keeps failing telling me I need to run adprep /domainprep, and when I do that I get an error



"Adprep cannot run on this platform because it is not a domain controller"



Run adprep on a domain controller



Is that mean that I need to insert Windows 2003 R2 CD to one of my existing domain controller and run adprep /domainprep or adprep /forestprep?



Thanks Mark


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