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I found this from Tony (good friend) over at the Technet Forum &nbsp;<a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverMigration/thread/fea95c62-5954-4a67-89c8-4d883c0f7eb7" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverMigration/thread/fea95c62-5954-4a67-89c8-4d883c0f7eb7</a><br />
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Do you have another disk that you can try to pull adprep32 from?<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Mike
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I found this from Tony (good friend) over at the Technet Forum  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverMigration/thread/fea95c62-5954-4a67-89c8-4d883c0f7eb7 [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverMigration/thread/fea95c62-5954-4a67-89c8-4d883c0f7eb7]

Do you have another disk that you can try to pull adprep32 from?

Thanks

Mike

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No I do not. I was thinking of upgrading the server for one day to windows 2008 R2 and then the Active directory should be upgraded automatically, so that I will be able to do what I want. I will not activate it, so I should not have a problem. What do you think?<br />
Or else, do you have a link hwere I can download the software?
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No I do not. I was thinking of upgrading the server for one day to windows 2008 R2 and then the Active directory should be upgraded automatically, so that I will be able to do what I want. I will not activate it, so I should not have a problem. What do you think?
Or else, do you have a link hwere I can download the software?

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I thought I would first join the new server to the domain and then demote the old server.<br />
I started by trying to run adprep32 /forestprep &nbsp;from the Windows 2008 R2 CD on the old Server but I get a message 'program too big to fit memory'.<br />
Is there an easier method since I do not need the old server at all?<br />
If not, any suggestions? 
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I thought I would first join the new server to the domain and then demote the old server.
I started by trying to run adprep32 /forestprep  from the Windows 2008 R2 CD on the old Server but I get a message 'program too big to fit memory'.
Is there an easier method since I do not need the old server at all?
If not, any suggestions? 

New Windows 2008 R2 server replaces old 2003 DNS server

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.

Windows Server 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

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.