I am working on an Exchange migration project. The entire network is at Windows 2K/SP4 and Exchange 2K/SP3. One of the first steps in the project plan is to update Active Directory to 2003. Can this be done on Windows 2000 or is it mandatory to upgrade to OS to Windows 2003 Server as well? I am pretty sure people have told me that AD 2003 will run on Windows 2000/SP4 but lately some people have said that the OS must also be upgraded as well. Thanks for any insight you have on this question. Best Regards, Paul J. Lay
Hi, You can and should run adprep /forestprep on the windows 2000 domain controller that holds the schema master role and adprep /domainprep on the domain controller that holds the infrastructure master role. After running these commands the schema is running the windows 2003 version but I don't know whether this would be called running windows 2003 ad (I wouldn't call it that myself). After running these commands you can either run dcpromo on a windows 2003 server or upgrade one of the existing 2000 servers to 2003. Read this before running adprep: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325379 Leif "Paul J Lay" skrev i en meddelelse news:eQ%23tHfaqFHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > > I am working on an Exchange migration project. The entire network is at > Windows 2K/SP4 and Exchange 2K/SP3. One of the first steps in the project > plan is to update Active Directory to 2003. Can this be done on Windows > 2000 or is it mandatory to upgrade to OS to Windows 2003 Server as well? I > am pretty sure people have told me that AD 2003 will run on Windows 2000/SP4 > but lately some people have said that the OS must also be upgraded as well. > Thanks for any insight you have on this question. > > Best Regards, > > Paul J. Lay > > >
