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2008 Standard in a SBS 2003 Environment

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I want to add a 2008 Standard box to an existing SBS 2003 environment.  I assume it would be ok just to add it as a member server and user it as the file server/SQL server and leave the SBS 2003 server in to do Exchange/AD?

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You can add it, you could even make it a domain controller if you want as long as the 5 FSMO roles stay with the SBS2003 server.

You would just need to ensure you run the appropriate ADPREP commands.
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Do I need to do the ADPREP stuff if I want it to be a secondary DC?
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You will need to do the Forest and Domain prep is you want to promote the 2008 server to a DC. But if you have plan to use the box as a Terminal Server then don't promote it.
Basically its just gonna be a file server and hold a sql database. It doesn't necessarily have to do any ad stuff but just thought having a backup would be smart.