That was absolutely it. Thanks guys for the reminder.. Sometimes when you'=
re in the weeds you tend to overlook common issues. Thanks again!


Yes. If you are using 2003 R2 media on a 2003 domain.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP


All-

I have a customer who has 2 W2K3 DC's (DC01, DC02) running in their environ=
ment.=A0 They want to add a new DC and retire one of the previous DC's ment=
ioned.=A0 Well, when I run DCPROMO on DC03 it throws me an error message sa=
ying I need to run ADprep because the forest is not prepped.=A0 Then it pro=
ceeds to tell me to run Forestprep and Domain Prep.=20

Has anyone ran into this issue before where there are already 1 or more W2K=
3 DC's and when you add another it's saying the forest isn't prepped for a =
W2K3 DC?=A0=20

TIA,



John Bowles=20


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