Upgrade From 2003 R2

[pritchardavid]

Hey Guys

 

Whats The Best Way Of upgrading All our servers to 2008 R2

Finally should be getting our new product keys for everything next week, so want to upgrade to a 2008R2 Network & Windows 7

 

Servers We have are and what they do ----

 

 

SERVER-3 - Only X86 CPU, So No 2008 R2 for this one, this is running 2008 Server Through

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES: IIS, WSUS (Roles Only for WSUS)

 

SERVER-4

 

Impero Console Viewer

 

WDS

 

WAIK

 

Shared Logon Batch Files

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES: File server, Application Server, Domain Controller (AD), DNS Server, DHCP Server, Streaming Media Serer

 

 

SERVER-5

 

 

Sophus AV Server

 

SQL Server 2005 (Needed For Sophus)

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES: File Server, Print Server, Domain Controller (AD) DNS Server

 

SERVER-6

 

 

Impero Server

 

Account Application Data Folders Host

 

Account Profiles Folders Host

 

Infrastructure Operations Master

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES: File Server, Domain Controller (AD), DNS Server

 

SERVER-7

 

Hosted/Shared Programes

Lexia Programes: Will Soon Just Be Records, Has Im gonna Deploy this

SRA Reading: This Is New, Cant Get It To Work, Any Help Would Be Good

Symphony Mathematics

Bowland Maths

Kar2ouche

PAT (Pupil Achievement Tracker)

 

 

Hosted/Shared Data Records For Apps

Cars In Motion Shared Records

Ultrakey Shared Records

Wordshard Shared Records

 

 

RID & PDC Operations Master

 

Software Distribution Folder

 

Teacher and Student Shared Folders

 

Student & Staff Documents Folder

 

Desktop & Start Menu Icons

 

EBook Share

 

Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES: File Server, Domain Controller (AD), DNS Server

 

CITRIX01

 

Citrix Server (Believe this is the student one)

 

SQL Server 2005 (Gussing cirix needs that to run?)

 

All software that we have all on the computers installed so students can get this at home

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES = Application & Terminal Server

 

CITRIX02

 

Citrix Server (Believe this is the admin one)

 

SQL Server 2005 (Gussing cirix needs that to run?)

 

All software that we have all on the computers installed so staff can get this at home

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES = Application & Terminal Server

 

MAIL01

 

Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent

 

MS Exchange 2007 (Upgrade this to Exchange 2010)

 

SQL 2005 (Gusse Used By Exchange)

 

WINDOWS SERVER ROLES = File Server, Application Server

 

 

 

We do have other servers, but dont really care about that at the moment

 

We have two admin servers, on the admin network (Server 2003)

 

Mitel IP Phone Server (Thats Linux, so dont need to touch that)

 

Some Drug/Support server that loads a stupid box on users desktop when they logon with messages about drugs and support, when you click on them it goes to sites about the thng thats showing

We got this free and is not our server to change things (Server 2003)

 

New backup/cache server is coming too (Ours old one broke), sadly I believe this will on Server 2003, not gonna touch this has this has been setup by our support company, and cost the school loads of money to setup, school didnt even ask us if we want to try and set it, if we have problems, then let them do it

 

 

Any help and suggestions would be good

 

Need any more info, just ask

[zag]

You can run 2003 and 2008 at the same time no troubles so I would question the need to update them all to 2008. Just do it gradually over time as you retire servers. The best way to upgrade is to add a new 2008 R2 DC then give it master roles. The either upgrade or retire the old DC's.

[pritchardavid]

heard some good news today

 

found that one of our old admin server is get replaced

 

Thought we were only getting our backup/cache server replaced

 

So that means I should have a server to change all this around with

 

Has that means I can install server 2008 on that move some roles and services from one server, upgrade that, and move them back, and then the next server

 

 

I did problery not do something that smart today, was bored, so i installed server 2008 r2 on a pc, added it do the domain and made it a domain controller to start trying to configure the windows 7 policys, havent got that far with that yet

 

Do I need to make a complete new policy for it ie have one for xp made from server 2003 and one for w7 made from server 2008r2?

 

confussed how the admx files work

 

or do it sit inside the same folder has the adm in the policys folder?