how do I run windows 2008 R2 forestprep or domainprep on 32bit OS?

Hi all,

We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows 2003
32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run forestprep and
domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master.
Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003 32bit
domain controllers?

Thank you!

From a Windows 2008 R2 CD. In the Support\AdPrep folder there are 2 version
of the adprep..

Adprep.exe -- the 64x version
Adprep32.exe -- the 32x version.

Use the adprep32.exe on your 2003 32x domain controllers.

Allan


On 4/12/10 5:14 PM, in article
107D855E-6FE7-466C-8759-, "ed"
<> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows 2003
> 32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run forestprep and
> domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master.
> Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003 32bit
> domain controllers?
>
> Thank you!

There should be both the 32 and 64 bits on the cd. Just so you realize (you
may already know) ALL R2 machines only run 64 bit so if you want to upgrade
any the current o/s has to be 64 bit.

--
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCITP - Enterprise Administrator
MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, Security +, BS CSci
2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009

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"ed" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows 2003
> 32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run forestprep
> and
> domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master.
> Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003 32bit
> domain controllers?
>
> Thank you!

Thank you for your help.

Currently, we have about 800 users and windows 2003 DIT file is about 120 MB.
We use RAID 1 for OS and RAID5 for log and DB.

Can we just use two disks RAID1 for everything?

Thank you.

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

> There should be both the 32 and 64 bits on the cd. Just so you realize (you
> may already know) ALL R2 machines only run 64 bit so if you want to upgrade
> any the current o/s has to be 64 bit.
>
> --
> Paul Bergson
> MVP - Directory Services
> MCITP - Enterprise Administrator
> MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, Security +, BS CSci
> 2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
> Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009
>
> http://www.pbbergs.com
>
> Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewGroups. This
> posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
> "ed" <> wrote in message
> news:107D855E-6FE7-466C-8759-...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows 2003
> > 32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run forestprep
> > and
> > domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master.
> > Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003 32bit
> > domain controllers?
> >
> > Thank you!
>
>
> .
>

Howdie!

Am 13.04.2010 20:27, schrieb ed:
> Currently, we have about 800 users and windows 2003 DIT file is about 120 MB.
> We use RAID 1 for OS and RAID5 for log and DB.
>
> Can we just use two disks RAID1 for everything?

You can if you feel comfortable with it. 120 MB is a rather small DIT so
after some time, most of the directory will be held in cache -- so disk
access should be pretty low. I wouldn't care much about the disks at
this point.

Cheers,
Florian

Thank you for your help.
so, What's the recommended RAID for domain controller?
RAID 1 for OS,
RAID 5 for data and log

"Florian Frommherz" wrote:

> Howdie!
>
> Am 13.04.2010 20:27, schrieb ed:
> > Currently, we have about 800 users and windows 2003 DIT file is about 120 MB.
> > We use RAID 1 for OS and RAID5 for log and DB.
> >
> > Can we just use two disks RAID1 for everything?
>
> You can if you feel comfortable with it. 120 MB is a rather small DIT so
> after some time, most of the directory will be held in cache -- so disk
> access should be pretty low. I wouldn't care much about the disks at
> this point.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
> .
>

Howdie!

On 13.04.2010 23:17, ed wrote:
> Thank you for your help.
> so, What's the recommended RAID for domain controller?
> RAID 1 for OS,
> RAID 5 for data and log

I've seen RAID 5 recommended for data and log files, yeah. If you have
the disks already, I'd just go with that and configure it like this.

If you're planning a new server, though, with your DIT size, I probably
wouldn't go through all the overhead and simply buy two disks, one for
the OS, another for the DIT and its logs and go with that. As said, the
directory services stores parts of the DIT in its memory and accesses it
from there. Since your DIT is rather small, it *could* be placed
entirely in the DIT, so load on the disk shouldn't be much of an issue.

Cheers,
Florian

We run RAID 1 and both reside on the same partition. There isn't enough
activity to warrant the type of scenario you suggest and we are larger than
you. If this machine is a DC only then I wouldn't worry I would run RAID 1
or RAID and keep everything on the same partition.

--
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCITP - Enterprise Administrator
MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, Security +, BS CSci
2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009

http://www.pbbergs.com

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"ed" <> wrote in message
news:316982E3-7A9A-4AA0-9D77-...
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Currently, we have about 800 users and windows 2003 DIT file is about 120
> MB.
> We use RAID 1 for OS and RAID5 for log and DB.
>
> Can we just use two disks RAID1 for everything?
>
> Thank you.
>
> "Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:
>
>> There should be both the 32 and 64 bits on the cd. Just so you realize
>> (you
>> may already know) ALL R2 machines only run 64 bit so if you want to
>> upgrade
>> any the current o/s has to be 64 bit.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Bergson
>> MVP - Directory Services
>> MCITP - Enterprise Administrator
>> MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, Security +, BS CSci
>> 2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
>> Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009
>>
>> http://www.pbbergs.com
>>
>> Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewGroups. This
>> posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
>> "ed" <> wrote in message
>> news:107D855E-6FE7-466C-8759-...
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows
>> > 2003
>> > 32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run forestprep
>> > and
>> > domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master.
>> > Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003
>> > 32bit
>> > domain controllers?
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>>
>>
>> .
>>

That's how our DC's are set up.... One drive RAID-1...


Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/

On 4/14/2010 8:25 AM, Paul Bergson [MVP-DS] wrote:
> We run RAID 1 and both reside on the same partition. There isn't enough
> activity to warrant the type of scenario you suggest and we are larger than
> you. If this machine is a DC only then I wouldn't worry I would run RAID 1
> or RAID and keep everything on the same partition.
>