upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2

August 3, 2007

I have a file server running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and I want to

upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to take advance of the File

Server Resource Manager option. This server in a cluster node, and I want to

confirm if it is possible to upgrade the server to R2 without installing from

scratch

and loose all the files, permissions, cluster settings I already have.

thanks

August 3, 2007

Re: upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2

To go to R2, you will need to run adprep (from the second disk of the R2

set) on the schema master for your existing domain. After adprep

successfully completes, you can add the R2 features to any Win 2k3 SP 1

server in that domain by running setup2 from the second CD of the R2 set. No

need to install from scratch.

hth

DDS

"Tech 24" <Tech24@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have a file server running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and I want to

> upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise to take advance of the File

> Server Resource Manager option. This server in a cluster node, and I want

> to

> confirm if it is possible to upgrade the server to R2 without installing

> from

> scratch

> and loose all the files, permissions, cluster settings I already have.

> thanks

>

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