Integrate R2 into Server 2003

[midiboy]

Hi everyone,

I posted a similar topic on this before, the reason for not reusing it is that it was about SBS and I then realized that R2 is not available for SBS yet. Unfortunately I was not able to change the topic title so I thought I might open a new topic on this.

Is it somehow possible to integrate R2 into an unattended server 2003 CD ? The R2 comes as a second CD and contains a CMPNENTS and ADMIN folder. Simply copying the folders to the first CD does not seem to change anything. Any ideas ?

Thanks a lot !

Alex

[mmarable]

There's documentation included with R2 that explains how to do this in detail. Basically, you copy the contents to the CD and execute the install command as you would any other applcation install.

R2 isn't a "patch" that can be integrated into a 2003 install CD like a service pack, it's a set of additional applications that are installed onto a 2003 server.

[tguy]

FYI - According to my sources at Microsoft R2 will not have a SBS version available.