Guest Jim Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 Hello, I just introduced a NEW DC on my domain that is running Server 2003 R2 SP1. I have 4 existing domain controllers that are running Server 2003 SP1 and I want to install Server 2003 R2 (disk 2), on these four and then SP2 on all of them. I planned to install R2 on all the DC's first and then SP2 on one DC at a time over a period of days. At some point I will have some SP1 DC's and some SP2 DC's. Is there any problem in doing this upgrade over time as I describe or must all DC's be on R2 SP2 right away? Thanks Jim
Guest Danny Sanders Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 Re: Windows 2003 R2 - SP2 R2 is just a feature update. Best practice is to install only the services you need to have installed. If you are not going to use the new and updated features that R2 provides you should not install R2. As far as the SP, you can update over time if you want. FYI, R2 is just feature updates, like a better performing DFS replication service. If you were going to update the DFS service to take advantage of the new DFSR features you would run adprep on the schema master for your domain. Then you would only install the R2 DFSR feature on the servers you want to replicate using the new DFSR. hth DDS "Jim" <jj@nospam.com> wrote in message news:%230ggMyLeIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello, I just introduced a NEW DC on my domain that is running Server 2003 > R2 SP1. I have 4 existing domain controllers that are running Server 2003 > SP1 and I want to install Server 2003 R2 (disk 2), on these four and then > SP2 on all of them. > > I planned to install R2 on all the DC's first and then SP2 on one DC at a > time over a period of days. > > At some point I will have some SP1 DC's and some SP2 DC's. Is there any > problem in doing this upgrade over time as I describe or must all DC's be > on R2 SP2 right away? > > Thanks > Jim >
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