inplace upgrade

Question

Hi, im having an issue with doing an inplace upgrade for my Azure VMs.

The server is currently running Windows (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard) and i want to upgrade it to 2019 Standard.

im following this document -

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows-in-place-upgrade

I managed to complete this for 2 other servers however for this particular VM im having this issue (check screenshot) I want onto the link it provided but wasn't able to resolve this issue.

Can you help me resolve this?

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

Based on the information you provided, you need to update the Active Directory schema before the in-place upgrade. For details, please refer to the following link:

https://theitbros.com/upgrading-active-directory-schema/#:~:text=Active%20Directory%20on%20this%20domain%20controller%20does%20not,separately%20by%20running%20the%20following%20command..adprep.exe%20%2Fforestprep%20Copy

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I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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Answer 2

@Zunhui Han Thank you.

im following the link you gave me, however i run into a issue

i receive this error even though i am on the enterprise admins and schema admins group. i have restarted the VM also

PS F:\Windows Server 2019\support\adprep> .\adprep.exe /forestprep 
Adprep detected that the supplied or default user is not a member of the follow [Status/Consequence] Adprep has stopped without making changes. 
[User Action] Verify the user is a member of Enterprise Admins group and Schema Admins group.