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In one of life’s “chicken and egg” situations I recently encountered the issue of promoting a Windows Server 2003 64-bit R2 server to be a Domain Controller in an environment with only Windows Server 2003 32-bit (non-R2) servers as existing Domain Controllers. DCPromo will tell you that the Forest has not been prepared for the version of Windows you are trying to promote (ie, R2).

I need to run adprep for 2008r2 on a 2008 dc. Where can I download adprep from? Windows Server 2008 By: Ken Mayer. 70-642 R5 - Configuring Windows Server.

This would normally not be a problem, the R2 media contains an adprep.exe to update the schema for R2 Domain Controllers. Of course if you take your new 64-bit R2 disc 2 media and try to run adprep on the 64-bit server you will receive this error.

Current machine. Thats right, you can’t use your 64-bit media to run adprep on a 32-bit Domain Controller. This is where the chicken and egg scenario kicks in – how do you get your 64-bit R2 server to be a Domain Controller with no pre-existing 64-bit or R2 Domain Controllers available for the required schema update? Jewel quest heritage downloads. Its not like Microsoft ships you a 32-bit copy of the OS when you buy the 64-bit edition. The solution is to get your hands on the 32-bit R2 media. If you don’t have a friend or colleague with a copy the next easiest way to get it is from the trial software downloads on Microsoft.com. Go and jump through the ridiculous hoops to “buy” a $0.00 trial edition so that you can download the ISO files.

You only need to download and burn the ISO for disc 2 which contains the R2 adprep.exe and schema files. Update: you can also download that contains only the R2 adprep files.