Contents

How to Use These Notes

Directory Services

ADFS Does Not Support WOW64

File Systems

Common Log File System

DFS Replication Tool

Microsoft Services for Network File System

Server Management

Incompatible snap-ins with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0

Improved error reporting for MMC snap-ins

Additional Resources

Copyright

© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2 operating system documentation.

How to Use These Notes

Welcome to the release notes for the Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2 operating system. These release notes contain important information that was not available when the documentation for Windows Server 2003 R2 was written.

In addition to this file, you should read several other files in the \Docs folder on your product disc. These include:

  • Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 (R2setup.chm). This guide contains installation instructions for this operating system. If you are installing from a shared network resource, you will need to save this file to the Windir\Help folder on your computer.

  • Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User's Guide (Deploy.chm). This guide helps IT administrators to preinstall, customize, and deploy operating systems with the Windows deployment tools.

  • Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Reference (Ref.chm). This technical reference contains document conventions and programming syntax for files that IT administrators use when preinstalling, customizing, and deploying operating systems with the Windows deployment tools.

    Important

    In addition, you should read the release notes on the Microsoft Web site for the service pack that is on Disc 1.

You can also find additional information on the Web sites that are listed at the end of this document.

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Directory Services

ADFS Does Not Support WOW64

Active Directory® Federation Services (ADFS) does not support Microsoft Windows-32-bit-On-Windows-64-bit (WOW64). When running the 64-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 operating systems, you cannot use the ADFS administration console in a 32-bit instance of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). To use the ADFS console, open a 64-bit instance of the MMC and then add the ADFS snap-in.

In addition, when running the 64-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 operating systems, ADFS components will not function if Internet Information Services (IIS) has 32-bit application pools enabled.

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File Systems

Common Log File System

When you uninstall or upgrade Common Log File System (CLFS), you must restart the computer to fully complete the action. To reinstall CLFS, you must uninstall it, restart the computer, and then reinstall CLFS.

DFS Replication Tool

The help for the DFS Replication command-line tool lists incorrect parameters. When you view the command-line help (by typing dfsradmin.exe mem list /?), the parameters in the left column below are incorrect. Use the equivalent parameters in the right column instead.

Incorrect parameter Correct parameter

MemNumOfConnections

MemNumConn

MemNumOfIntersiteConnections

MemNumIntersiteConn

Microsoft Services for Network File System

In the Network File System (NFS) command-line tool Mount.exe, the -u and -p parameters are no longer supported.

If you need to supply alternate user credentials to access an NFS share, log on to a Windows session using the alternate credentials, and then use the Mount.exe command-line tool normally.

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Server Management

Incompatible snap-ins with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0

When creating custom MMC consoles, if you add a snap-in that uses the new MMC 3.0 functionality, you might receive the following error message: "MMC cannot initialize the Snap-in." You will receive this error message if there is another snap-in in the same MMC console that depends on .NET Framework 1.1 (such as the .NET Framework 1.1 Configuration snap-in). Snap-ins using different versions of .NET Framework cannot exist within the same MMC console.

If you receive this error message, ensure that any snap-ins that use different versions of .NET Framework are in separate MMC consoles.

Improved error reporting for MMC snap-ins

MMC 3.0 detects errors in existing management snap-ins that may have previously been ignored. If MMC detects an error, you will have the option to send a report to Microsoft or ignore the error.

For a list of known fixes for problems with snap-ins, see Microsoft Management Console at the Microsoft Download Center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=55423).

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Additional Resources

  • For the latest information about Windows Server 2003 R2, see the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=45560).

  • For more information about the service pack that is on Disc 1, see the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=62452).

  • For more information about the 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003, see the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=45559).

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Copyright

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