Exchange 2003 & New Win 2K8 R2 DCs
When setting up Exchange 2003 it was necessary to run ForestPrep (extend AD schema) and DomainPrep (to Prepare the domain for Exchange). At the time these were Win2K3 Servers. Now, I am migrating my DCs to newer hardware and with Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). What, if anything needs to be done once I've migrated the DC servers or will these changes move during the migration?
February 26th, 2010 10:38pm
Technical correction: ForestPrep doesn't extend the
schema, SchemaPrep does.
All those things apply to Active Directory, which stays the
way it is when you upgrade your hardware, unless you blow away your AD and start
over, which I wouldn't advise you to do.-- Ed Crowley
MVP"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral
problems.".
"greek1914" wrote in message news:c7a8c644-47f2-4795-93ff-a2995f410224...When
setting up Exchange 2003 it was necessary to run ForestPrep (extend AD schema)
and DomainPrep (to Prepare the domain for Exchange). At the time these
were Win2K3 Servers. Now, I am migrating my DCs to newer hardware and
with Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). What, if anything needs to be done
once I've migrated the DC servers or will these changes move during the
migration?
Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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February 26th, 2010 11:54pm
Prepare your infrastructure for
upgrade:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771461(WS.10).aspx
"greek1914" wrote in message news:c7a8c644-47f2-4795-93ff-a2995f410224...When
setting up Exchange 2003 it was necessary to run ForestPrep (extend AD schema)
and DomainPrep (to Prepare the domain for Exchange). At the time these
were Win2K3 Servers. Now, I am migrating my DCs to newer hardware and
with Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). What, if anything needs to be done
once I've migrated the DC servers or will these changes move during the
migration?
February 28th, 2010 3:23am
Technical correction: ForestPrep doesn't extend the schema, SchemaPrep does.
just wanted to make things clear,
In e2003, Schema expantion is done by /forestprep, there is no seperae switch to do so
then later with exchnage 2007 or 2010, to make the permissions very granular, MS included seperate switches.
/ps - prepare schema alone /pl - prepare legacy permissions /p - prepare AD/Pd - prepare a domain/pad - prepare all domain in the forest
Note: /p can also run /ps if we didnt ran that exclusively
finally to answer his question..Forestprep and domainprep are make changes to the AD (in the Schema, configuration and Domin partitions) via a DC when replication happens the changes wouldbe repliated to all other DCs in the Forest.Hari
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February 28th, 2010 5:00pm
You are right. Microsoft keeps changing things and
confusing me.-- Ed Crowley MVP"There are seldom good
technological solutions to behavioral problems.".
"hasiv" wrote in message news:06075415-23e3-4335-8a24-535f117c24ba...
Technical
correction: ForestPrep doesn't extend the schema, SchemaPrep
does.
just wanted to make things clear,
In e2003, Schema expantion is done by /forestprep, there is no seperae
switch to do so
then later with exchnage 2007 or 2010, to make the permissions very
granular, MS included seperate switches.
/ps - prepare schema alone /pl - prepare legacy permissions /p -
prepare AD/Pd - prepare a domain/pad - prepare all domain in the
forest
Note: /p can also run /ps if we didnt ran that exclusively
finally to answer his question..Forestprep and domainprep are make
changes to the AD (in the Schema, configuration and Domin partitions) via a DC
when replication happens the changes wouldbe repliated to all other DCs in
the Forest.
Hari
Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
March 1st, 2010 8:41pm
You don’t need to run these commands, DC replication will take care of it as Hasiv said above.
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March 3rd, 2010 10:50am