RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-08 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
...@teldta.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit Thanks all. I wasn't aware of the GPMC issues - to clarify - you just have to run GPMC on a 32 bit server, right? (so we can still run it on our existing admin terminal s

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-08 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit We have two 64-bit 2003 DCs alongside our 32-bit DCs that have been humming along happily for at least a year now. No WS08 DCs installed yet, but we just extended our schema for WS08

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-08 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit I have been running a mix of 32 and 64-bit DCs for over a year with no ill effects at all. I prefer the performance gains I receive from running 64-bit, but not all MS management tools (GPMC in particular) would run on 64-bit prior

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-07 Thread Terry Dickson
AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit We added a 64 bit DC to our existing domain with no issues whatsoever early last year to add some horsepower to a site allegedly being hammered by Exchange and to test all our processes, documentation, 3rd party agents, services e

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-07 Thread Free, Bob
We added a 64 bit DC to our existing domain with no issues whatsoever early last year to add some horsepower to a site allegedly being hammered by Exchange and to test all our processes, documentation, 3rd party agents, services etc in preparation for the next HW refresh. We did it in the lab as we

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I have been running a mix of 32 and 64-bit DCs for over a year with no ill effects at all. I prefer the performance gains I receive from running 64-bit, but not all MS management tools (GPMC in particular) would run on 64-bit prior to Server 2008's release, so I had to keep at least 1 32-bit ser

RE: Upgrading DCs to 64 bit

2009-01-07 Thread John Hornbuckle
I have a mix of 64-bit Server 2008 DCs and 32-bit Server 2003 DCs. No problems here. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com]