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Upgrading Certificate Authority Server to 2008R2 Enterprise from 2008R2 Standard

Answered Upgrading Certificate Authority Server to 2008R2 Enterprise from 2008R2 Standard

  • Friday, April 27, 2012 2:02 PM
     
     
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    Any issues in doing this?  The server is a DC, and running DNS, and contains our radius server as well as the Certificate Authority.  This was all built originally on 2008R2 Standard and the CA is Enterprise.

    Has anyone else done this successfully?  Or had such a bad experience, that maybe I should leave well enough alone?  We are getting ready to do patch updates and some configuration changes to the AD services and wanted to bring this server up to par with the other DCs.  Bad idea or no real challenge?

    Thanks.

     

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  • Friday, April 27, 2012 3:04 PM
     
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    There are no known considerations and CA server can be updgraded from Standard to Enterprise edition. The only note is that it is not recommended to host CA server on domain controllers. IF possible, you should consider to migrate CA role to member server.

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  • Monday, April 30, 2012 3:07 AM
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    Hi,


    There are some related links for your reference to migrate CA:


    How to move a certification authority to another server
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298138


    Active Directory Certificate Services Migration Guide
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126170(v=WS.10).aspx


    Hope this helps!

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  • Friday, May 04, 2012 5:53 AM
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    Hi,

    Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums.

    As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as ‘Answered’ as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios. If the issue still persists, please feel free to  reply this post directly so we will be notified to follow it up. You can also choose to unmark the answer as you wish.

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