You can use the eval copy but you will need to upgrade to a retail version of the product before the 180 day trial period expires. If you don' then you will begin to experience blue screens. For more details see 818025 Windows 2003 Server evaluation copy expiration behavior http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818025
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brown, Bill [contractor]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND Eric, Being as you are with MS - I will direct this part of the query at you. We have a subscription to MSDN and I have the evaluation version of W2K3 from that subscription. We have not yet purchased "live copies" of W2K3 - the purchasing folks are looking into whether the purchase plan for the W2K products would allow an upgrade issue of W2K3. Anyway, from a MS standpoint - will I be able to safely do a forestprep of the empty root [both test bed and production configurations] with the evaluation copy of W2K3 - or will I have to have the real thing? In advance, thanks for your time and trouble... R/Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND Umm....."gpo for windows xp attributes"? What does that mean? I assume that means that you can use XP settings in a group policy in a 2k domain. If that is what you mean, that's completely independent of the schema in AD, whether you have extended it for 2k03 or not. That is just a function of the ADM files you have imported in to that policy. ~Eric ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Adams, Kenneth W (Ken) Sent: Tue 8/10/2004 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND You read correctly. Once the schema is extended, you can apply what ever needed those attributes (i.e., GPO for Windows XP attributes) with the MMC snap-ins containing the names of those attributes. Ken Adams -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brown, Bill [contractor] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND Ken, Thanks for the reply - your answer pretty much fits in with what I had intended to do. Once the replication is out to all DCs - then anything that needed to work with the extended schema could - is that correct? Or am I reading between the lines? R/Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adams, Kenneth W (Ken) Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND If you read the upgrade documentation for W2K3, you will find that you have to extend the forest schema before you install the first W2K3 DC. Extend the schema on the empty root domain with the forestprep option, then allow sufficient time for the schema extension to replicate through ALL DCs in your forest. Ken Adams -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brown, Bill [contractor] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:24 AM To: ActiveDirList Subject: [ActiveDir] W2K SCHEMA EXTEND To All, I have recently been advised that one of the domains within our forest has a need to start using some of the W2K3 attributes. The current setup throughout the forest is W2K and SP4 with an empty root and then child domains truncated on downward. The forest will be migrated to W2K3 at some point in the not too distant future - but it will not be in time to satisfy the needs of this one domain. Is it possible for me to extend the forest schema [presume from the empty root] by running W2K3 forestprep and staying at the current W2K? R/Bill List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
