Microsoft’s new baby in their
server family is Windows Server 2008. The Windows Server® 2008 operating system
ease operation of IT administrator and enterprise IT planner and designer.
Windows 2008 Active Directory got improved roles, AD domain services, federation
services, AD rights management services, compliances and BPA. Its time to shift
to Windows 2008 Active Directory. In this article, I will show how to migrate
from windows 2003 AD to windows 2008 AD.
On Windows Server 2003 DC, insert
the Windows Server 2008 DVD, then open command prompt and change directory
to d:\sources\adprerp directory. Here D:\ is my dvd rom drive. In your
case do as appropriate. note: you need to log on to windows 2003 domain
controller as enterprise admin to run these command.
Now run following
command adprep/ forestprep
