- Upgrading Domain Controller with Standard SP1 to R2 - fails
- Posted by Roberto R on March 27th, 2008
Recently i have been upgrading all the servers to R2 with the exception of
DCs. Upon upgrading one dc it prompted me to update the schema which i did
with adprep /forestprep. After i ran the setup to install R2- it asks for
product key to enter (so it can update the old standard to standard R2) after
i enter my R2 key it comes back with invalid key. Very strange since this
same product key works on all other standard servers equipped with Standard
SP1 that i converted to R2. I did a little investigating to see if this only
happened on that specific dc, so i try to upgrade another different dc to R2
and after i enter the product key its says invalid. I verified with microsoft
that the key is correct. Has anyone ever had this issue? any solution? thanks
- Posted by Kirk Lashbrook on March 27th, 2008
I've been having all kinds of issues with my R2 keys.
Worked for a little while (about ten servers), then the "Invalid Key" problem started.
Still trying to get to the bottom of it. Not much success yet.
"Roberto R" <RobertoR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F35AB7B-7432-4E2C-B079-516DFD924591@microsoft.com...
- Posted by lforbes on March 28th, 2008
Just a shot in the dark but have you tried reapplying SP1 or reinstalling SP1
from the CD1? With my server, before I realized that Disk 1 was actually JUST
Windows 2003 server with SP1, I upgraded using both disks. I ran the SP1
install and then upgraded with the SP2 disk afterwards.
It didn't affect my domain or hurt anything.
Maybe there is something up with the server missing something from SP1 that
it is looking for.
Cheers,
Lara
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