Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails

March 27, 2008

Recently i have been upgrading all the servers to R2 with the exception of

DCs. Upon upgrading one dc it prompted me to update the schema which i did

with adprep /forestprep. After i ran the setup to install R2- it asks for

product key to enter (so it can update the old standard to standard R2) after

i enter my R2 key it comes back with invalid key. Very strange since this

same product key works on all other standard servers equipped with Standard

SP1 that i converted to R2. I did a little investigating to see if this only

happened on that specific dc, so i try to upgrade another different dc to R2

and after i enter the product key its says invalid. I verified with microsoft

that the key is correct. Has anyone ever had this issue? any solution? thanks

March 27, 2008

Re: Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails

I've been having all kinds of issues with my R2 keys.

Worked for a little while (about ten servers), then the "Invalid Key" problem started.

Still trying to get to the bottom of it. Not much success yet.

"Roberto R" <RobertoR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F35AB7B-7432-4E2C-B079-516DFD924591@microsoft.com...

> Recently i have been upgrading all the servers to R2 with the exception of

> DCs. Upon upgrading one dc it prompted me to update the schema which i did

> with adprep /forestprep. After i ran the setup to install R2- it asks for

> product key to enter (so it can update the old standard to standard R2) after

> i enter my R2 key it comes back with invalid key. Very strange since this

> same product key works on all other standard servers equipped with Standard

> SP1 that i converted to R2. I did a little investigating to see if this only

> happened on that specific dc, so i try to upgrade another different dc to R2

> and after i enter the product key its says invalid. I verified with microsoft

> that the key is correct. Has anyone ever had this issue? any solution? thanks

March 28, 2008

RE: Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails

Just a shot in the dark but have you tried reapplying SP1 or reinstalling SP1

from the CD1? With my server, before I realized that Disk 1 was actually JUST

Windows 2003 server with SP1, I upgraded using both disks. I ran the SP1

install and then upgraded with the SP2 disk afterwards.

It didn't affect my domain or hurt anything.

Maybe there is something up with the server missing something from SP1 that

it is looking for.

Cheers,

Lara

"Roberto R" wrote: