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No one commented and I figured it out myself.

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I have a two node Windows 2003 cluster running SQL 2005 in a clustered instance. &nbsp;Both cluster nodes are domain controllers. I want to upgrade them to Windows 2008 folowing this process:<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/08/28/8904281.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/08/28/8904281.aspx</a><br />
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However, after evicting a node successfully &nbsp;the Windows 2008 installer will not proceed on it complaining that the computer is still a member of a cluster and cannot therefore be upgraded.<br />
I have tried using the cluster command line to force cleanup and simply get an error. Has anyone been here before and know what to do?<br />
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Note, &nbsp;I have preped AD to accept a Windows 2008 DC.<br />
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Any help is appreciated.
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I have a two node Windows 2003 cluster running SQL 2005 in a clustered instance.  Both cluster nodes are domain controllers. I want to upgrade them to Windows 2008 folowing this process:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/08/28/8904281.aspx

However, after evicting a node successfully  the Windows 2008 installer will not proceed on it complaining that the computer is still a member of a cluster and cannot therefore be upgraded.
I have tried using the cluster command line to force cleanup and simply get an error. Has anyone been here before and know what to do?

Note,  I have preped AD to accept a Windows 2008 DC.

Any help is appreciated.

Upgrading Windows 2003 Cluster to Windows 2008

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.