torytechie

I'm in the final stages of starting my MCTS 70-680 (Configuring Windows 7) with Open.IT This is the provider that Microsoft UK recomend. They have test centers all over the country.

Lets go a slender Leeds Advantage, pretty much "old trafford-esque" as a memory of last season?

Our school do the same, but it doesn't apply to IT staff.

Yeah we pretty much got the same treatment here to be honest.

Well, we have Today and Monday as INSET days... It turns out that the only people working are the four IT staff and a site operative. Its -4 outside, what are we doing at work?

Yes, I cycled through the ADPREP /forestprep, ADPREP /domainprep, ADPREP /domainprep /gpprep etc...

The 2003 box is a Domain Controller with print services and AD domain services on.

That would be our american cousins who seem to forget that we speak English because we're from England

But it would never last long enough to talk about what its called.

Indeed, but did we not get taught at infants school about the "magic e"? The e at the end of a word, elongates the vowel. Thus making it a scone...

I had to deice my car twice this morning. Once at 7am, and then went inside to finish my coffee and by 7.25, it was frozen over again.

Further to previous posts of mine relating to migrating active directory, I ran Adprep on the domain controller and then ran dcpromo on the 2008 server, as advised by many people on here. http://http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008-r2/65103-migrating-ad-2008-r2.html All appeared to be fine, we had the two domain cotrollers sitting side by side, the 2k3 DC working fine and the 2k8 DC sitting idle with nothing pointing at it. We then get a week of reports where students, and only students, randomly cannot see the mapped network drives. I then ran dcpromo again on the 2k8 server to demote it again. Problem solved.

Can I just clarify, I have to run dcpromo on the NEW server?

What we are doing basically is this: we are eventually migrating from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008, but we want to do it with minimal disruption to the network. I have installed windows server 2008 on a new server, but we want to go live with one before switching the previous one off.

Now that we have built our new Active Directory Server, is there any way of copying the existing AD database in order to put it into the new server?