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Upgrade CA server from W3K to W3K enterprise ? Trust No OneŽ 03-05-2008
Posted by Trust No OneŽ on March 5, 2008, 12:58 am
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Hi everyone, I'm after some advice.

We current run certificate services on two domain controllers in our forest
root domain. These domain controllers run Windows 2003 Standard edition. We
currently use them to issue EFS and Domain Controller certificates.

Now we'd like to extend their use, but some certificate templates are only
available if the Certificate services is installed on Windows 2003
Enterprise edition.

Ideally after our next hardware refresh which is due shortly, We'd like to
reach a situation where the CAs are running on Windows 2003 Enterprise
edition.

I understand that Microsoft supports an inplace upgrade of Windows 2003
Standard to Windows 2003 Enterprise edition.

Has anyone run such an upgrade on a DC running certificate services? If so
were the additional certificate templates available once the upgrade
completed?

Assuming that the inplace upgrade is not possible, can anyone advise how I
would go about moving my existing CAs onto new Windows 2003 Enterprise
edition servers?


Regds,


--
Peter <X-Files fan>



Posted by Meinolf Weber on March 5, 2008, 1:34 am
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Hello Trust No OneŽ,

With the upgrade i have no experience, but for moving:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298138

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi everyone, I'm after some advice.
>
> We current run certificate services on two domain controllers in our
> forest root domain. These domain controllers run Windows 2003 Standard
> edition. We currently use them to issue EFS and Domain Controller
> certificates.
>
> Now we'd like to extend their use, but some certificate templates are
> only available if the Certificate services is installed on Windows
> 2003 Enterprise edition.
>
> Ideally after our next hardware refresh which is due shortly, We'd
> like to reach a situation where the CAs are running on Windows 2003
> Enterprise edition.
>
> I understand that Microsoft supports an inplace upgrade of Windows
> 2003 Standard to Windows 2003 Enterprise edition.
>
> Has anyone run such an upgrade on a DC running certificate services?
> If so were the additional certificate templates available once the
> upgrade completed?
>
> Assuming that the inplace upgrade is not possible, can anyone advise
> how I would go about moving my existing CAs onto new Windows 2003
> Enterprise edition servers?
>
> Regds,
>



Posted by Trust No OneŽ on March 5, 2008, 11:28 am
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Meinolf Weber wrote:
> Hello Trust No OneŽ,
>
> With the upgrade i have no experience, but for moving:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298138
>
Thanks for that. Will have a read.


--
Peter <X-Files fan>



Posted by Brian Komar \(MVP\) on March 5, 2008, 2:03 pm
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Yes, an inplace upgrade is possible
Brian

> Hi everyone, I'm after some advice.
>
> We current run certificate services on two domain controllers in our
> forest root domain. These domain controllers run Windows 2003 Standard
> edition. We currently use them to issue EFS and Domain Controller
> certificates.
>
> Now we'd like to extend their use, but some certificate templates are only
> available if the Certificate services is installed on Windows 2003
> Enterprise edition.
>
> Ideally after our next hardware refresh which is due shortly, We'd like to
> reach a situation where the CAs are running on Windows 2003 Enterprise
> edition.
>
> I understand that Microsoft supports an inplace upgrade of Windows 2003
> Standard to Windows 2003 Enterprise edition.
>
> Has anyone run such an upgrade on a DC running certificate services? If so
> were the additional certificate templates available once the upgrade
> completed?
>
> Assuming that the inplace upgrade is not possible, can anyone advise how I
> would go about moving my existing CAs onto new Windows 2003 Enterprise
> edition servers?
>
>
> Regds,
>
>
> --
> Peter <X-Files fan>
>


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