yep, the log showed no errors, just completed after sch30.ldf and went on its merry way, never opened sch31.ldf ... no clues or hints as to why ... at this point it's just a curiosity, got it properly updated with the sch31.ldf and dcpromo'd the 2003 servers into the AD
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain There is an adprep.log - iirc it's in c:\windows\system32\debug\adprep Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain agreed, but the server drive where the client copied the disk *did* ... just don't know why adprep skipped it Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain Disk 1 should not. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - <http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/> http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain and just checked, my disk 1 does NOT have a sch31.ldf file on it ... .just weird ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain I actually did this remotely, the client *said* they copied disk 2 to the drive, and it *did* include the sch31.ldf file .. but the sch31.ldf file was NOT included in the processing ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain Sorry to pile on late but did you run the ADPREP version from 2003 R2 DISK1? If so you will get schema version 30, which is just W2K3 without R2. You want to run the version from DISK 2\ Cmpnents\R2\Adprep that upgrades the schema directly to version 31 (R2) From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain ok, this one was wierd ... adprep did not process the sch31.ldf file , so it set the AD at version 30, but 2003r2 requires AD version 31 ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
