Ad Prep

[Guest]

I have now got to the stage of adding windows 2003 servers to my 2000 domain
so therefore i need to run ad prep, having not run this before is there any
issues i need to consider. all my servers are 2000 SP4 except 1 which is SP3

 

[Hank Arnold]

Are you sure you need to run AD Prep? My understanding was that this was
only necessary if you are installing Exchange 2003 and/or a 2003 DC.... I
had understood that adding other Wk03 member did not require and AD
changes...

 

[Guest]

sorry didnt make it very clear, i am wanting to add a 2003 DC
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Garry Drinkall
Broadband Implementation Officer
North Lincolnshire Council

Are you sure you need to run AD Prep? My understanding was that this was
only necessary if you are installing Exchange 2003 and/or a 2003 DC.... I
had understood that adding other Wk03 member did not require and AD
changes...

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Garry,

Several things to consider. And I wish that I had the link readily
available right now!

Will look for it and post once I have it - which will be in several hours!
Sorry for the tease.

If you have Exchange 2000 then you need to worry about the mangled
attributes problem. Do a search on that in the MS web site. You will also
need to apply a MA Patch or two ( which you can get for free from MS-PSS if
I recall correctly ). Once all of this has been done then you need to Extend
the Schema ( by doing the adprep /forestprep ). There should be ample
'information' about this on the MS Web Site.

Sorry that I can not give you more details - or links! Those will follow!

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Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

sorry didnt make it very clear, i am wanting to add a 2003 DC

 

[Guest]

Thanks fo the reply. I do not have exchange running so that is not an issue
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Garry Drinkall
Broadband Implementation Officer
North Lincolnshire Council