Anything to know before upgrading 2008 to 2008 R2 on DC?

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Hi guys,

We have a 2008 domain controller, which is also a Hyper-V host, hosting 2 clients. An Exchange 2007 server (Server 2008) and an XP test client.

We've looking to upgrade this DC to 2008 R2, but is there anything that I need to know before I do this? I know I need to shut the Hyper V clients down fully, and take an offline snapshot, but is there anything else? Anything to do with Exchange etc?

Thanks,

Mal

 

[Over Clocker]

Thanks for the tips iaind and ecksman. I know it's not a good setup, and I will be changing it soon. Basically, we initially just had a single box 2008 DC with no hyper V, then we wanted to test hyper v on it, then started using it properly, but never got round to doing the above!

Cheers,

Mal

 

[Over Clocker]

Nows a perfect opportunity to make the move then!

Aye.

Right, If I'm going to do this properly then........

What would the ideal setup be with Hyper V for the following.

Hardware - 2x Xeon E5405 CPUs, 20GB Ram...

Required:
1x DC
1x Exchange 2007 server (already a virtual server)

How would you want to split the resources etc?

Cheers,

Mal

 

[Over Clocker]

Thanks very much Lanz. Sorry, am posting from my MDA this weekend, so what is the main difference between Core and Hyper-V R2 Server?

Thanks again,

Mal