Todd,
Your messages prior to this made it sound like you had bought R2
but did not receive media for it. This reply to Ben makes it seem like
you did not buy R2 and as such you can't just get media for it and
install it. 2003 R2 is a separately licensed, pay-for upgrade from 2003
Server. It isn't like a service pack that you can apply at no cost.
If what I am assuming is correct the best course of action for you (if
you require a homogeneous environment) is to downgrade your 2003 R2
Server installation to 2003 Server. Otherwise, you can purchase (one at
a time even, for your President's sake) 2008 licenses and downgrade them
to 2003 R2 (after you get the media for it as mentioned previously).
I've not tried this myself but I'd bet a good bit that your non-R2 keys
aren't going to work even if you do get the media and likewise that any
R2 keys you had won't install 2003. So, if you installed 2003 Server
then you probably had that license and not an R2 license to begin with,
as retail does not provide you with keys to previous versions like the
Open License program does.
For more information on downgrading I encourage you to read the EULA for
Windows Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/eulas/default.mspx.
Good luck!
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Any one have a copy of R2 for W2K3 Enterprise
I'm not sure if R2 had been released at that time, anyway I was not
installing R2 then on any of my servers.
Thanks!
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