I don't disagree with Scotty, but want to add a few thoughts...
 
if you currently have Win2000 AD, the same restrictions apply as when you'd upgrade to the Win2003 schema (i.e. Exchange 2000 and SFU 2.0 conflicts etc.)
 
if you already have Win2003 AD, you should generally be fine, especially if you didn't have any SFU (Services for Unix) components deployed in your AD at this time - this has caused issues at least once that I know of (not sure if it's a general thing).
 
nonetheless, it's certainly a step - like any schema change - which you should first perform in the lab. Here you should have an AD schema that matches your production schema as much as possible (should certainly have all the same classes and attributes) => you can use the new AD Schema Analyser tool that comes with ADAM SP1 or ADAM R2 to find the differences in your production and test-lab schema (and to create LDIF files to update the lab to match your production schema).  If all is well (which it generally should) then you're fine to do the upgrade in the production as well.
 
/Guido


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McLeod, Scotty
Sent: Freitag, 31. März 2006 10:44
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows R2 - Extending the schema

Have done this a few times in testing and a couple in live environments and not had any problems at all.

 

Good luck with it.

 

Scotty


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer
Sent: 31 March 2006 11:24
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows R2 - Extending the schema

 

All,

I want to deploy the new DFS feature in Window R2 but I have to extend my schema before I can use this.  Has anyone ran into problem after doing this?

 

Thanks

Mike

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