nightmare with server2008 R2 and xp sp2

mcse_696

Hi
I have 2 Domain controller server2003 sp1, one of which is exchange2003 and 25 xp sp2 clients. I decided to move to windows2008R2 and install exchange2007 sp3, everything was fine until clients started to take 20 mins to login to domain.

I checked DNS and replication on both servers but found nothing. After 6 hours of nightmare I turned back to my lovely 2003 server.
is there anybody using windows2008 R2 with xp clients with no problem ???????????????

RobertKaucher

I have been for a while with no issues. I would suspect this is a DNS related issue as well. Did you do any sort of network capture with WireShark to see what was going on?

Everyone

Thousands of XP clients connecting to 2008 R2 AD no problem. They were all SP3 and up to date on patches though... Is there a reason yours are still on SP2?

Also why Exchange 2007? Why not skip 2007 and go straight to 2010 at this point?

rsutton

You should not have XP SP2 machines in production unless you have some serious compatibility issues with sp3. You are just asking for malware/virus issues.

mcse_696

NO man I was done just thinking about going home, however I had same problem with server 2003 and DNS was the issue , the windows 2008 was member server my clients pointed DNS to primary one which is 2003 and second DNS to 2008, even in the end I unstalled DNS from 2008 no luck,

Everyone

Have you run dcdiag yet?

mcse_696

exchange2007 was my personal choice but I ll jump to exchange2010, its a good point

Lamini

and update your clients :P. remember exchange 2010 sp1 is out, as well as server2008r2sp1