Our current environment is all Windows 2003. When we migrate a new version of our service to the cluster, we first stop the service with a command like:

cluster.exe <clusterName> resource "<serviceName>" /offline

We do similarly after the migrate to bring the service back online.

Now, we are upgrading our environment to new Windows 2008 servers. However, our build/migrate machine will remain Windows 2003. When issuing the same command from Windwos 2003 to Windows 2008, we get:

System error 1722 has occurred (0x000006ba).
The RPC server is unavailable.

We need to be able to remotely administer a Windows 2008 cluster from a Windows 2003 server in an automated fashion (such as the command-line cluster.exe utility). Is this possible?

Thanks, Gideon