>2 releases? Do you mean that 2008 and 2008R2 are considered separate releases?
Yes. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrading a parent/child domain On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi- > > I'm not entirely certain I understand the question, but, some general > thoughts around your message: > > You are correct your proposed methodology this is the easiest method. > > You will also need to run adprep /domainprep followed by adprep /domainprep > /gpprep for each domain you plan to upgrade. Found that out, yeah. Guess my guy didn't read the part about "domainprep" in each domain, and I guess I didn't, either, or I didn't explain it well enough. > You do not need to upgrade to Windows 2000 native mode first. WS03 can be > dcpromo'ed into a mixed mode domain. As a matter of principle, you should > really aim to goto FFL2/DFL2 (WS2003 functional level) as part of this > exercise. We will see about doing that, thanks. > You can dcpromo 2003 domain controllers into either domain. To upgrade your > forest of course you need to upgrade the DCs in each domain. WS2003 maintains > the one domain per domain controller relationship. That's what we would like - an updated forest. > Once you go to Windows 2003, you will be able to leverage application > partitions to replicate your DNS zones around which will remove the need for > these hierarchical forwarders, potentially. Something else to investigate. :-) > Why are you going to WS03? It's now two releases behind. We're doing it in stages. We also need 2008 licenses, which will be in next year's budget (we're a state gov't agency). But we need to get more up to date now. So we're doing it this, and trying to clean up our infrastructure in the process. 2 releases? Do you mean that 2008 and 2008R2 are considered separate releases? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
