"Salandra, Justin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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04/13/2004 11:02 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003

So in summary, I should be able to adprep the forest with no problems if
all DC's are running at least Windows 2000 SP3 and Exchange 2003?

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Justin A.
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:13 AM
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I have experienced this. But I only experienced it on one DL that was a
global group, I changed it to a universal group. All my DLs are
Universal groups now and I don't have replication issues.

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Have you run into issues with Exchange pointing to GC servers in your
subdomains and not being able to resolve recipients in Distribution list
unless the DL are Universal DL?

We have:

Root Forest Windows 2000 with Exchange 2000 and most user accounts,
Groups, DLs, etc
Subdomain Windows 2003 with Exchange 2003 - mostly for development /
testing, few accounts

Exchange at times used the DC in the Subdomain for GC lookups. Our DLs
were not Universal so when Exchange would attempt to resolve the
recipients of the DL using the subdomain GC it would not find any
members.....at that point messages would die in the Categorizer queue.
MS solution was to convert all mail enabled groups to Universal or
remove the subdomain DC from the Exchange Directory Servers list.
Universal groups will publish all their members in the GCs, but this
philosophy seems to contradict everything I read early on about trying
to avoid the use of Universal Groups because of the increase in
replication between GCs.

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Justin A.
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:15 AM
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One thing I did not mention is that I have Exchange 2003 deployed in my
forest. What precautions need to be taken for this. I read the q
article 325379 but that talks about exchange 2000.

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Nope, I have one running just as you described.

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Justin A.
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:50 AM
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If the forest prep is done, are there any problems if a child domain is
built as a windows 2003 domain while the rest of the forest is still in
windows 2000?

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Shaff
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:02 PM
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Forest Prep will prepare your forests for the Windows 2003 upgrade. IT
will also expand your schema at that time.

S

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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:01 PM
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I really just want to prepare the forest for windows 2003, I don't need
the domains ready yet.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Trent
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:22 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003

Also, if you stick in the CD to upgrade a server, it will check the
server and AD type, and will not upgrade until you have performed those
steps.
It
even gives you the steps to perform that you can copy/paste.

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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:19 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003

I am not aware of any KB articles, but here are the steps that were
performed on our upgrade.

The forest and domains are prepared by using the adprep command on the
schema operations master and infrastructure operations master,
respectively.
(25min)
* At a command prompt, change to the \I386 directory on the
installation media and then type: d:\i386\adprep /forestprep
* When prompted, type 'C', and then press ENTER to begin forest
preparation, or type any other key, and then press ENTER to cancel.
* After the forest preparation data has replicated throughout the
forest, prepare the domains for Windows Server 2003 as described below.
The domain preparation operation must be performed on the infrastructure
operations master of each domain in the forest.
(no reboot necessary)

Prepare an Active Directory domain for Windows Server 2003: (4min)
* On the domain controller holding the infrastructure operations
master role
* At a command prompt, change to the \I386 directory on the
installation media, and then type: d:\i386\adprep /domainprep
* After the domain preparation data has replicated throughout the
domain, upgrade the domain controller by running Windows Server 2003
Setup (I386\winnt32.exe on the installation media).
(no reboot necessary)
* Specify Upgrade from menu options
* Enter Corporate CD Key
* Update Setup Files from Microsoft
(system reboots)
* Setup will now prepare the installation
* Installing Windows
* Finishing Installation
(system reboots)
o Total Install Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

Hope this helps.

S

*****************************************
Steve Shaff
Active Directory / Exchange Administrator Corillian Corporation
(W) 503.629.3538 (C) 503.807.4797 (F) 503.629.3674

-----Original Message-----
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Justin A.
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:13 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003

I have a question, what are the steps to update the schema to Windows
2003?

Is there a q article out there?

Justin A. Salandra, MCSE
Senior Network Engineer
Catholic Healthcare System
212.752.7300 - office
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