Adding Win2003 R2 Server to a Win2003 SP1 Domain as a DomainContro

I have recently built a Windows 2003 R2 server and would like
to promote it to a domain controller in a Windows 2003 SP1 Environment. I am
finding it pretty hard to locate relevant documentation on how to do this
without actually having to purchase licenses for R2 and upgrading the SP1
machines to R2 (which is not an option). Has anyone successfully completed
such a task or knows of a link to instructions on how to? Thanks for your
help in advance

 

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The R2 update is basically a feature upgrade. Disk 1 of the R2 set is Win
2k3 SP1, to install the R2 updates you would run setup2 from the second disk
of the R2 set.

Don't run setup2 from the second disk and you don't update the server to R2.

hth
DDS

 

Thankyou for your feedback. After taking a breather from the problem for a
bit i came back and found some information on Extending Active Directory
Schema in Windows Server R2. I am in the process of replicating our server
environment in order to test these updates before going live.



http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...9fdc-45c1-8739-20085b20797b1033.mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...a418-4a09-a50c-5f3258cfc5b51033.mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...61dd-4b98-a9ae-600d11476e3b1033.mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...24c7-4b5a-8165-dbd96727ec841033.mspx?mfr=true

 

The schema update needs to be done on the schema master for the
domain/forest.
It's pretty painless.

hth
DDS