Agreed there is no reason to put a x32 machine in place unless you don't have the money to do it better. x64 DC's work well with x32 clients from my personal experience.
Jon On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > You speak of "current" hardware in the CA office. > > Are you sure it's only 32bit hardware? Just how old is it? Unless it's > well over 5 years old, it's most likely 64bit capable. > > If it is true that it's only 32bit, then I'd strongly consider > shipping them a real current piece of hardware with Win2k8R2 already > on it and a member of the domain, to be promoted while there. > > > Kurt > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:46, Dave Vantine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our company just purchased a company in Canada. I have site to site VPN's > > between our offices but we are presently in different forests and have > > authentication issues across the domains. I will be traveling this > weekend > > to CA and be moving most of the current hardware back to our office. To > make > > things easier I want to setup a DC in there office. I have already > created > > user accounts for them in our domain and will be migrate all of the > > computers into our domain while I am their. > > > > They only have 32bit hardware so I plan on installing 2008 and not R2. I > > believe I only need to perform the following to successfully add a 2008 > DC > > to my 2K3 Forest Functional domain. Adprep /forestprep and > > then /domainprep on the W2K3 schema master. > > > > Are there any other step other than these required? > > > > -- > > Thanks > > Dave Vantine > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
