Re: infratructure preparations for Windows 2008 domain upgrade

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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, but "jprstokato" was the OP, not me.]

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.

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.
>
>