Finally the most awaited news in the corporate world: Windows Vista SP1 is now finally released in RTM and will be also available in Windows Update next month (mid-March). A big relief also for some home users that are purposely holding the upgrade to Vista and waiting as a tradition to the first service pack before jumping ship.

Meanwhile, in the more important news for me: Windows Server 2008 is also coming at the end of this month. I heard many positive feedbacks and reviews with Windows Server 2008 – I hope it is really worth considering – the ROI - upgrading some of my servers that are running in Windows 2003 R2.

It’s another exhausting day today. I spent almost whole day reading and figuring out how to effectively replicate our Data Center from good old Windows 2000 Server to a brand new and shining Windows 2003 R2 server.

In the morning when I went to work, I was very determined and I was sure that I will be using Windows Server 2003 R2 DFSR feature as a solution and it will be an easy day for me today.

The problem is, it only works perfectly when both the servers are in Windows 2003 R2, but in my case as I said the source server is a Windows 2000.

I tried many ways to make it work. I read almost all available resources, but no joy in the end. It works somehow when I’m using the old and Windows 2000 way of doing DFS replica, but it breaks in the end.