2008 and XP Clients

[SYNACK]

We have gone Vista and once the staff got over their initial fear responce they actually found it just as easy if not easier to use than XP. Same with Office 2007, I had people comming and telling me about these cool new features that they had found in office 2007 which had in fact existed since office 2000 but were buried so deep that no one had found them.

The students had absoloutly no issue migrating across and most barely seemed to notice. Most had already had it at home for a while and wondered why the school was so far behind. The others picked it up almost instantly.

[cookie_monster]

I don't think most of our users would find a switch to Vista to be a problem the problem is that allot of our PC's wouldn't run it, 3 GHz P4's with only 512Mb RAM and so on and it didn't even work that well with 1Gb. Windows 7 seems to be a big improvement in this area it's running very well on my NC10 so fingers crossed.
Most of our users that have come accross Office 2007 have been horrified though so i'm not looking forward to that move.

[Diello]

Using ADMT migration did your new forest have to have a different name?

I was thinking that running domain prep then adding a 2008 DC to the 2003 domain and moving all of the roles accross would be more straight forward.

Yes, you have to create a new forest with a different name. Remembering that the NetBIOS name must be different to for ADMT to work.

Transitioning your current domain across should be pretty straight forward. Also remember to raise your Forest and Domain Functional Level to Server 2008 once your last W2k3 DC has been changed. The main reason we did an ADMT move was because of various non-MS schema updates that had been done etc., they'd even had CC3 once and had those schema entries, so we felt a clean start was best.

[cookie_monster]

Our AD is pretty clean so I think we'll be looking to upgrade, I also don't really want to have to rename the domain.

[Mr.Ben]

if your real good.. then you can use one GP for the hole school.. like me.. and use the target users settings..

1GP for all sweet...

One Group policy to rule them all, one Group policy to find them, one group policy to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.......?

I would love that, but I have too many groups that need subtle differences!

[OverWorked]

Also, make sure your XP clients have Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729) installed.

It allows them to be managed by GP preferences, making things like mapping drives, desktop shortcuts, IE settings a lot easier to manage.

[FN-GM]

Also, make sure your XP clients have Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows XP (KB943729) installed.

It allows them to be managed by GP preferences, making things like mapping drives, desktop shortcuts, IE settings a lot easier to manage.

If your fully up to day with WSUS you will be fine

[cookie_monster]

Speaking of WSUS that and WDS could both be fun to move to new servers.

[mac_shinobi]

Yes.

Does it present any issues etc etc

No.

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David Hicks

Has anyone had any issues with printers on a print server pushing them out to 32 bit clients assuming the server is 64 bit ?

If not have you got a guide on what you did step by step ?