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If you want to avoid my cowboy IT guy approach (i.e. insert disk 1 and upgrade from running copy of Windows &#8211; what could possibly go wrong?), check out <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/912309\">Microsoft knowledge base article 912309<\/a> before starting the job (I didn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>Because I didn&#8217;t do it properly, I had some issues but I imagine there are plenty of others who will try what I did and may now be googling to get out of a few holes.  This is what I did &#8211; your problems may differ depending on your configuration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When my screen reverted to 4 bit 640&#215;480 colour (but Device Manager said my display adapter was working fine), I ignored the problem.  After a reboot, I was back to my usual display properties.<\/li>\n<li>My machine (which is a domain controller) complained that it couldn&#8217;t install the R2 components until I had updated the Active Directory schema.  I followed the instructions (run <code><em>opticaldrive<\/em>:\\cmpnents\\r2\\adprep\\adprep.exe \/forestprep<\/code>) and then restarted R2 setup with <code><em>opticaldrive<\/em>:\\r2auto.exe<\/code> (I could also have used <code><em>opticaldrive<\/em>:\\cmpnents\\r2\\setup2.exe<\/code>).<\/li>\n<li>Changing directory permissions (that&#8217;s what <code>adprep.exe<\/code> did) will break certain applications &#8211; in my case WSUS and Virtual Server (i.e. those apps that rely on IIS).  I&#8217;m still working on that issue and will blog something when (if) I fix it.<\/li>\n<li>The upgrade also wiped out at least one of the configuration changes that I made in the registry &#8211; in this case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/setting-up-ip-forwarding-on-windows.htm\">enabling IP forwarding<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just upgraded a server from Windows Server 2003 (with SP2 installed) to Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP2 slipstreamed). 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