[windows2000] Re: Upgrading AD to W2K3 - problem
- From: "Angus Macdonald" <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:16:02 -0000
I'm a big fan of virtual machines but in this case I did it this way for
recoverability - in the event of a problem I can easily restore the machine to
its' previous state, as I had to several times.
Having said that, I've run all my legacy NT4 DCs and one of my AD DCs as
virtual servers for years with no issues. Once a server is a couple of years
old, recovering it in the event of trouble can be difficult as original
hardware may no longer be available. VMs solve that one. I'll be keeping one
W2K3 DC virtual for the same reason. It's an excellent safety net and in our
environment the performance hit is negligible. Of course, running it on a Quad
Xeon box with 16GB of RAM helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
Sent: 22 March 2007 08:20
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Upgrading AD to W2K3 - problem
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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