infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for Upgrade' -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc771461.aspx, there are no
prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and adprep /domainprep /gpprep
in the schema / infrastructure master....

In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that replication
was disabled from this server during the schema preparations..

Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?

Many thanks.

[Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.
microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not
upgrading Windows.]

jprstokato wrote:
> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for Upgrade' -
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc771461.aspx, there are no
> prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and adprep /domainprep
> /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....
>
> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that replication
> was disabled from this server during the schema preparations..
>
> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?
>
> Many thanks.

Hello PA Bear [MS MVP],

You can run the schema upgrade without any problem or preparation like stated
in the article.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.
> microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not
> upgrading Windows.]
>
> jprstokato wrote:
>
>> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for
>> Upgrade' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc771461.aspx,
>> there are no prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and
>> adprep /domainprep /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....
>>
>> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that
>> replication was disabled from this server during the schema
>> preparations..
>>
>> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>

Thanks very much for your reply.

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello PA Bear [MS MVP],
>
> You can run the schema upgrade without any problem or preparation like stated
> in the article.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>
> > [Forwarded to a few Windows Server-specific newsgroups via crosspost.
> > microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup is about Windows Updates, not
> > upgrading Windows.]
> >
> > jprstokato wrote:
> >
> >> According to technet article 'Prepare Your Infrastructure for
> >> Upgrade' - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc771461.aspx,
> >> there are no prerequities to executing adprep / forestprep, and
> >> adprep /domainprep /gpprep in the schema / infrastructure master....
> >>
> >> In our previous upgrade from 2000 to 2003, it was advised that
> >> replication was disabled from this server during the schema
> >> preparations..
> >>
> >> Is this necessary for the 2008 infrastructure perparation?
> >>
> >> Many thanks.
> >>
>
>
>

Ah, thanks for the reassuring words..
We went throguh all that with the upgrade from W2k to W2k3, so hopefully
won't come back to haunt us!

"Bill Kearney" wrote:

> And God help you if you ever had Services for Unix installed on your domain.
> win2k8 seriously complains about it and it's a supreme hassle removing all
> the SFU gunk from the schema.
>
>