Re: Disadvantages of manual migration?

From: Henry Craven [SBS-MVP] (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:32:11 +1100

Doing a clean build is quite an acceptable proposition on a small
network, less complicated and less to go wrong.

a) You'll need a means of storing and transferring Data - This can be
via space on a Workstation or Second/External HDD.

b) You'll Increase your Exchange usage in going from Exch > .pst >
Exchange but is probably not going to be a biggie (make certain you do
an exchange aware full backup and exch has cleaned up immediately before
you do exmerge out )

c) Because of the new SIDs the client machines will get new profiles
when re-connecting. With XP Clients you can automatically import the old
profiles, with others you'll have to manually import them ( Desktop
data/icons, Favourites, etc..... )

Watch that you take the client machines back to Workgroup and make sure
you clean out the primary DNS Suffix under the [More] Button.

See:
Handy Utilities for the Exchange Administrators
http://www.outlookexchange.com/articles/drewnicholson/utilities.asp 

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
"Stephen Conlin" <sconlin55@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9UbRd.23887$ya6.4103@trndny01...
> We use SBS 4.5 and are upgrading to SBS 2003 on a new computer. I have
> reviewed Microsoft's instructions for migrating from 4.5 to 2003, but 
> it is
> more complicated that I would like and requires renaming the SBS 
> server,
> which I would prefer to avoid. I'm considering doing a clean install 
> of SBS
> 2003 on the new computer and doing the migration manually. I would 
> create
> new user accounts on the new server (there are only 10 users so it is 
> not
> much work) and manually transfer over the data files. I would transfer 
> the
> Exchange data using Exmerge. We don't use SQL.
>
> Microsoft described this type of migration going from 4.5 to 2000 (in
> Q278439), so I don't see why it would not work going from 4.5 to 2003. 
> Are
> there any disadvantages of doing this type of migration (apart from 
> the need
> to manually recreate settings)?  I assume I will need to disconnect 
> clients
> from the existing domain and reconnect them to the new server domain. 
> Will
> clients loose settings in this process if the old domain and new 
> domain are
> the same name?  I'm concerned I may be missing something, so I would 
> welcome
> any feedback.
>
> As a separate matter, does anyone know where I can obtain Exmerge 
> 3.71.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Stephen
>
>