This article provides the idea and experiment steps for the Enterprise Manager to upgrade the existing architecture 2008 domain to 2008R2 domain, upgrade your architecture to 2008r2 to use the 2008R2 domain to bring new features and new experiences, Active Directory Recycle station, DA,AD console and other amazing functions.
Upgrading the 2008SP2 operating system to 2008r2, if there is no ad role on 2008, the direct upgrade, if the ad role will require the upgrade of AD forest schema and domain schema, before the system can be upgraded to 2008r2, and the forest schema and domain architecture to 2008r2
Also requires that the system disk has 16169MB of free space, or can not be upgraded smoothly
Experimental environment: a 2008SP2 OS
Experimental goal: Upgrade 2008SP2 to 2008r2 OS
Note that the 2008r2 is only 64 digits, so you cannot upgrade 32-bit 2008 to 2008r2.
Existing OS:2008SP2 NAME:ns1.ccfxny.com roles for AD and DNS
Back up the system state of the existing system and do a backup of the secondary domain. To prevent the extended forest schema and domain schema from failing, it is possible to permanently corrupt the network domain. This operation has a certain risk, remember, remember.
Put in the corresponding Enterprise Edition CD, click Start installation, and upgrade the installation directly under the existing system.