Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

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microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not

upgrading Windows.]

 

jprstokato wrote:

> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for Upgrade' -

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461.aspx, there are no

> prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and adprep /domainprep

> /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....

>

> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that replication

> was disabled from this server during the schema preparations..

>

> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?

>

> Many thanks.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Hello PA Bear [MS MVP],

 

You can run the schema upgrade without any problem or preparation like stated

in the article.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.

> microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not

> upgrading Windows.]

>

> jprstokato wrote:

>

>> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for

>> Upgrade' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461.aspx,

>> there are no prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and

>> adprep /domainprep /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....

>>

>> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that

>> replication was disabled from this server during the schema

>> preparations..

>>

>> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?

>>

>> Many thanks.

>>

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

[Thanks, but "jprstokato" was the OP, not me.]

 

Meinolf Weber wrote:

> Hello PA Bear [MS MVP],

>

> You can run the schema upgrade without any problem or preparation like

> stated in the article.

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

> confers

> no rights.

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>

>

>> [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.

>> microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not

>> upgrading Windows.]

>>

>> jprstokato wrote:

>>

>>> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for

>>> Upgrade' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461.aspx,

>>> there are no prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and

>>> adprep /domainprep /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....

>>>

>>> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that

>>> replication was disabled from this server during the schema

>>> preparations..

>>>

>>> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?

>>>

>>> Many thanks.

[Guest jprstokato]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Thanks very much for your reply.

 

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello PA Bear [MS MVP],

>

> You can run the schema upgrade without any problem or preparation like stated

> in the article.

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

> no rights.

> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

>

>

> > [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.

> > microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not

> > upgrading Windows.]

> >

> > jprstokato wrote:

> >

> >> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for

> >> Upgrade' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461.aspx,

> >> there are no prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and

> >> adprep /domainprep /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....

> >>

> >> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that

> >> replication was disabled from this server during the schema

> >> preparations..

> >>

> >> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?

> >>

> >> Many thanks.

> >>

>

>

>

[Guest Bill Kearney]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

And God help you if you ever had Services for Unix installed on your domain.

win2k8 seriously complains about it and it's a supreme hassle removing all

the SFU gunk from the schema.

[Guest jprstokato]

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

 

Ah, thanks for the reassuring words.. :)

We went throguh all that with the upgrade from W2k to W2k3, so hopefully

won't come back to haunt us!

 

"Bill Kearney" wrote:

> And God help you if you ever had Services for Unix installed on your domain.

> win2k8 seriously complains about it and it's a supreme hassle removing all

> the SFU gunk from the schema.

>

>