Let's say your AD consists of only 32 bit W2K3 (SP1) DCs without R2. Now you want to introduce a 64 bit R2 DC. As you know, you need to extend the AD schema to support the R2 features. When using the 32 bit version of R2 you just fire up ADPREP from the 2nd CD et voila you're done! However, this is the 64 bit R2 distribution set and that one does ...

Kerberos authentication is always used when: Both endpoints are at least W2K or higherAND In case of a trust, Kerberos is supported   Kerberos is supported within an AD forest and between AD forests when a forest trust is used. In all other cases NTLM authentication is used.   Let's say you have the following layout: Domain A ...

ADMTv3 has been out for a while and is the free Microsoft Migration Tool available for use (besides other small tools that can help you during your migration like NETDOM, SUBINACL, ROBOCOPY, etc.). It can be downloaded here Besides the tool you can also view and download documents with loads of info about migrations and how to use ADMT. The ...

This is so simple and people still ask questions in the newsgroups about it. It has been answered sooooooooo many times it almost hurts typing this over and over again....   Concerning the Infrastructure Master FSMO role and the GC role look at it from the domain perspective. If all DCs in a certain domain are GC then it does not ...