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Upgrade from NT4 server to W2K3 R2

We will be performing an in place upgrade of a customers NT4 domain to Windows 2003 active directory as we have done many times before (but not since R2 came out). Can anyone clarify that there is no direct upgrade fron NT4 (PDC) to Windows 2003 R2 ?? If so do we just use the Windows 2003 original version for the upgrade fromm NT4 and then upgrade to R2?? If so will the licence key that came with our R2 software also work on the original version of windows 2003??

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oBdA

The upgrade should work with R2 as well; R2 just has an additional CD from which setup has to be continued (at some time, you can stop after the first CD as well).
The R2 license key will work for a "plain" W2k3 install as well, as R2 is W2k3 SP1 with additional features from the second CD.

dazzler1971

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well when I ran setup/checkupgrade only it said that NT4 could not be upgraded directly to the R2 version of windows 2003???

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dazzler1971

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OK thanks David. It just made me think when I ran the setup /checkupgradeonly from windows 2003 server R2 disk 1 and it came up with this error saying could not upgrade to this version of windows from NT4. Can you explain this? I did not actually run the setup alone.

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