What is ADPREP tool?

August 25th, 2009 by uCertify Leave a reply »

The ADPREP tool is used to prepare Windows 2000 domains and forests for an upgrade to Windows Server 2003. It extends the schema, updates default security descriptors of selected objects, and adds new directory objects as required by some applications.

Syntax:

ADPREP {/forestprep | /domainprep}

Parameter Description
/forestprep Prepares a Windows 2000 forest for an upgrade to a Windows Server 2003 forest.
/domainprep Prepares a Windows 2000 domain for an upgrade to a Windows Server 2003 domain.
/? Displays help for the command.

To run ADPREP /forestprep, the administrator must be a member of the Enterprise Admins group and the Schema Admins group in Active Directory. The ADPREP /forestprep command must be run on the schema master.

To run ADPREP /domainprep, the administrator must be a member of the Domain Admins group or the Enterprise Admins group in Active Directory. The ADPREP /domainprep command must be run on each infrastructure master.

Note: Before running the ADPREP /forestprep command, Microsoft recommends upgrading all the domain controllers in the forest to Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or later.

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