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Adding 2008 R2 server to 2003 domain: 2003 DC to 2008 R2 DC
Thank you in advance. I am prepping some 2003 AD dc’s before adding 2008 R2 servers to the domain. Obviously I will need to run adprep on the dc’s before, but wanted to confirm adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep. We have 3 domains, parent and 2 child domains. The parent Domain DC has all the roles including the schema master and the child domains only have pdc, rid and infrastructure. It is a while since I have done anything with domains so wanted to run this by someone with more experience/knowledge.
I was going to run Adprep32 /forestprep on the Parent domain (which holds the schema master)
then run Adprep32 /domainprep on each of the child domains
Should I also consider running /gpprep on the child domains?
Does this sound like the correct route? The other thing is I don’t envisage actually setting up a 2008 r2 server to control the parent domain for a short while as it is one of the child domains I am more concerned with at the moment . Can 2008 DC’s sit happily in a child domain when there is no 2008 server in the parent domain (I presume it would be ok if the forest, domain and gpprep went successfully)? Also can i only run 2k8 r2 server in a RODC mode?
As I said many thanks.
Leon
I was going to run Adprep32 /forestprep on the Parent domain (which holds the schema master)
then run Adprep32 /domainprep on each of the child domains
Should I also consider running /gpprep on the child domains?
Does this sound like the correct route? The other thing is I don’t envisage actually setting up a 2008 r2 server to control the parent domain for a short while as it is one of the child domains I am more concerned with at the moment . Can 2008 DC’s sit happily in a child domain when there is no 2008 server in the parent domain (I presume it would be ok if the forest, domain and gpprep went successfully)? Also can i only run 2k8 r2 server in a RODC mode?
As I said many thanks.
Leon
Windows Server 2003
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if you don't want to deploy RODC, you can skip RODC command for now, but anytime you decide to deploy RODC, you need to run RODC command 1st, else you would find difficulties while deploying RODC
The command is not required if you directly started with 2008 and above OS as DC, but you are upgrading from 2003 server and hence command is required if you decide to deploy RODC in feature even if you already decommissioned all 2003 DCs
Hence I always prefer to run the command regardless of RODC is there or not
Check below
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771055(v=ws.10).aspx
Mahesh
The command is not required if you directly started with 2008 and above OS as DC, but you are upgrading from 2003 server and hence command is required if you decide to deploy RODC in feature even if you already decommissioned all 2003 DCs
Hence I always prefer to run the command regardless of RODC is there or not
Check below
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771055(v=ws.10).aspx
Mahesh
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Thanks again Mahesh
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Many thanks Mahesh, i'm not sure how the points system works here, so didn't know how to rate the question when i wrote the query. I hope thats ok.
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