What you need is a matching product code (not product id). http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=387
This gets complicated because you can "upgrade" Windows Server 2003 RTM and SP1 to R2. In that case, if you are doing a bare metal restore, you have to go through the same process. I greatly prefer disk images. I wrote an article about this once, I think; I'll hunt for it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: Full metal restore 2003 R2 >From a fellow SE... From: Kris Laib Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:49 PM To: David Lum; Jen Sells; Ed Quinn Subject: RE: Full metal restore 2003 R2 Are they file-by-file identical? If not, I think we still need to know which boxes are R2.. For instance, it shows XP x64 as 5.2 also, but I bet it has a different splash screen ;) (and who knows what else). From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:****] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Full metal restore 2003 R2 Yeah, Disc 1 of 2003R2 is 2003 SP1. All of the R2 stuff is on disc 2 From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Full metal restore 2003 R2 Doing some OS auditing for full metal restore prep, I am not getting anything (Joeware.net wools, SMS) that is returning 2003 R2 - I get 2003 Std and Enterprise, 32 and 64-bit, and 2K8 and 2K8 R2. For a full metal restore where you need the OS disk of the same version of what you're restoring, does it matter if it's 2K3 or 2K3 R2? Is R2 more of a feature-set than a code base change? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 ~ 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]<mailto:[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
