Active Directory Migration from Windows Server 2003 R2 to Windows Server 2008 R2

 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

 

WSUS 3.0 INSTALL ERROR ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SP2 X64

This took me 4 nights to figure out how to fix the installation error and get the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 going on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 server. I guess it must be common for people to encounter the problem I had as it appears to be the WSUS 3.0 SP2's fault that doesn't recognise x64 Windows properly.

How to : Deploy & Configure WSUS 3.0 SP2

Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) provides a comprehensive solution for managing updates to your network. So, rather than having every computer in your organization download megabytes worth of updates over the internet, you can configure a WSUS server to be the only computer that downloads updates and than you configure every other computer in your organization to use the WSUS server as the source of update files.