Hi- You would be better off starting from scratch or at least reloading. In place upgrades make a mess. If your current hardware is suitable for 2008 R2, I would dcpromo down the box, install Win7 from scratch, and dcpromo back up.
You can do the schema/domain prep ahead of time without first joining the box to the domain FWIW. With regard to virtual DCs, you can certainly make them all this way although I tend to shy away from this for the reasons others have noted. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later) I'm not in a position to do it now, but I'm trying to think ahead a year or two and wondering how hard it's going to be to upgrade our DCs when we want to go from 2003R2 to the newest and best thing. Assuming I wanted to upgrade today, would it be better to start from scratch on new hardware and just add the 2008 machine to the mix of the AD and then upgrade the schema or what? Also, I was talking to a potential SAN vendor this morning and they mentioned virtualizing machines. I would think one would not want to virtualize all of their domain controllers, would you? Would it be safe to virtualize one DC and have one physical DC? [John-Aldrich][Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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