You want to determine if the ADPrep process, described in Recipe 2.10, has successfully prepared a Windows 2000 domain or forest for Windows Server 2003. After ADPrep has completed, you will them be ready to start promoting Windows Server 2003 domain controllers.
To determine if adprep /domainprep completed, check for the existence of the following object where <DomainDN> is the distinguished name of the domain:
cn=Windows2003Update,cn=DomainUpdates,cn=System,<DomainDN>
To determine if adprep /forestprep completed, check for the existence of the following object where <ForestRootDN> is the distinguished name of the forest root domain:
cn=Windows2003Update,cn=ForestUpdates,cn=Configuration,<ForestRootDN>
As described in Recipe 2.10, the adprep utility is used to prepare a Windows 2000 forest for the upgrade to Windows Server 2003. One of the nice features of adprep is it stores its progress in Active Directory. For /domainprep, a container with a distinguished name of cn=DomainUpdates,cn=System,<DomainDN> is created that has child object containers cn=Operations and cn=Windows2003Update. After adprep completes a task, such as extending the schema, it creates an object under the cn=Operations container to signify its completion. Each object has a GUID for its name, which represents some internal operation for adprep. For /domainprep, 52 of these objects are created. After all of the operations have completed successfully, the cn=Windows2003Update object is created to indicate /domainprep has completed.Figure 2-2 shows an example of the container structure created by /domainprep.
For /forestprep, a container with the distinguished name of cn=ForestUpdates,cn=Configuration,<ForestRootDN>, is created with child object containers cn=Operations and cn=Windows2003Update. The same principles apply as for /domainprep except that there are 36 operation objects stored within the cn=Operations container. After /forestprep completes, the cn=Windows2003Update object will be created that marks the successful completion of /forestprep. Figure 2-3 shows an example of the container structure created by /forestprep.
Chapter 14 of Active Directory, Second Edition for upgrading to Windows Server 2003, and Recipe 2.10 for running adprep