AD Problem.

[vincelewin]

Hi all.

I have a 2003 domain comprising of three sites.
At site a I have two DC's one running exchange 2003.
at site b and c I have a dc talking back to site a via vpns.

I am trying to add a fifth dc to serve a new site but I am getting an error during DCPROMO.exe

Apparently my 2003 domain is not the right version for my new 2003 R2 server!!!

I have sourced some information on replmon.exe and used it to view the infomration on the dc's. I think I have found the problem which appears to be with the dc running exchange.

Whilst all my other dcs show five directory partitions my exchange dc shows only three, this I believe is what you would see in a 2000 domain!

This doesnt make any sense to me at all as the box has always been 2003.

I am considering raising the domain functionality level to 2003 from native but this is just me clutching at straws.

Does any one have any ideas on this?

Thanks

Vince

 

[vincelewin]

Sorry folks.

It appears that I actually cant run ADPREP from r2 2003 disk 1 I have to run it from disk 2

LOL.

Im running it now and will post the result.

Fingers crossed.

 

[vincelewin]

Yeah that done it.

Run ADPREP.EXE from R2 Disk 2 not Disk 1.

That does an extra step on /forestprep which is "upgrades schema to version 31"

Vince