[windows2000] Re: Upgrading AD to W2K3 - problem
- From: David <dmauri@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:20:18 +0100
Angus Macdonald escribió:
Never mind -I fixed it. Turns out that VMWare virtual SCSI controllers
aren't supported natively by W2K3 and the unhelpful error message is
the evidence.
-----Original Message-----
*From:* windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]*On Behalf Of *Angus
Macdonald
*Sent:* 21 March 2007 12:10
*To:* windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [windows2000] Upgrading AD to W2K3 - problem
I've started the process of upgrading our elderly W2K AD to W2K3
but have hit a snag. Here's what I've done so far:
Purchased hardware
Setup a VMWare W2K SP4 server on the W2K domain
Made the virtual server the schema master and IM and waited a few
days
Taken the virtual server off the network
Run adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep to prepare AD
Joined the network again
Waited for and verified replication throughout the domain
All good so far, no errors or problems. However, whenever I try to
upgrade the virtual server to W2K3 (with or without SP1) I get the
following error towards the end of the process, ""setup failed to
install the product catalogs". This is a fatal error and
installation fails.
Since I'm using a virtual server it's easy to roll back to W2K.
Can anyone suggest (ideally from experience) a fix for this? The
virtual server is brand new and clean, full SPs and patches.
Thanks
Angus
Hi Angus,
I would like to upgrade our domain to W2k3 too.
And I see you have used a virtual machine. Why? Because you are going to
use this solution forever or just to upgrade the AD?
If so, can you point me in the correct way (steps) to upgrade AD
successfully?
Thanks a lot.
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