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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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R2 Upgrade Process

The R2 upgrade process is quite simple, and because there is no change in the function of the operating system, there is no real concern of possible issues with the exception of the schema update processed in the ForestPrep. Even if there are issues during the schema update, they are not usually terribly difficult to overcome, especially with the schema defunct capability in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. The ForestPrep only has to be run once, so after that is completed, the rest of the R2 rollout should be quite smooth.

Tip

During the beta of R2, there were cases reporting failures during the ForestPrep process due to preexisting schema attributes colliding with the new attributes in various ways. All of these cases were corrected by defuncting and/or redefining the old attributes causing the collisions.

Prepare the Forest

As we outlined earlier, before you can promote the first Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller into your forest, you have to run the ForestPrep procedure. Log into the Schema FSMO role holder and run ADPrep/forestprep. When the process has successfully completed, you will be greeted with a heartening success message:

    The command has completed successfully.
    ADPrep successfully updated the forest-wide information.

If you run into errors, messages will be provided that should give an indication of the problem. Assuming your prerequisites are in order, any errors will be concerning pre-existing schema definitions. If you have been particular ...

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