RE: Upgrading from SBS2000 to Server 2003

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Hi,

en....Let us say it in this way:

If you want to change a SBS domain to a standard AD domain ,you need to use
Transaction Pack.

Yes, you can add another Windows 2003 into domain and promote it to DC but
you cannot demote the SBS domain, as well as, you cannot transfer fsmo,
otherwise you will face some potential issues and MS will not support this
scenario. For more information,please open a new post at SBS newsgroup for
assistance.

Thanks.


Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Do we NEED to obtain the Transaction Packs? B/c in a lab environment. I
added a Win2003 standard server to a SBS2000 domain. Then moved FSMO
roles,
etc and easily moved Exchange 2000 users to Exchange 2003 as well.

I'm a going to hit problems in the future or something?


"Vincent Xu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi,

If you need to convert from SBS 2000 or SBS 2003 to Normal AD domain,
you
need to obtain Transaction Pack of SBS

You may refer to following link:


<http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/sbs/techinfo/planning/transition
.mspx>


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Dear Vincent,

I am a networking consultant with a very similar question and would
appreciate some additional information from you.

1) Is it POSSIBLE to get from 2000SBS to 2003 Server (or 2003 SBS for
that
matter) while maintaining the current Active Directory, and if so,
how?

I am aware of the limitations of SBS, however, I have a couple of
sites
that
need to be upgraded (via new servers) and am trying hard to find a
way to
do
this without having to unjoin workstations from the old domain and
join
the
new one. I am aware of some of the migration tools, but in a larger
network,
this is still pretty time-consuming. To be able to maintain the
current
AD
infrastructure (like we would with "real" server products) would be a
huge
time savings.

Any "tricks" for doing it this way? I would reference the following
article
(specific to SBS2003, but close enough) to demonstrate that there are
apparently ways of doing this that might not be supported or
considered
"best
practices" but that can be done:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884453

Thanks for any information.

Alan


"Vincent Xu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Robert,

For your situation, I'd like to suggest you build another domain
and
migration all resource from SBS 2000 domain to new domain.

Please refer to:



<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepK
it/cead3dc3-4920-4b7a-b6fe-6111d44110b3.mspx>

Hope it helps.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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Subject: Upgrading from SBS2000 to Server 2003
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:37:12 -0500
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Help, I would like to know if anyone has done this and how did
they do
it. I want to go from SBS 2000 to 2 2003 servers, the first one
will
be 2003 server, the other one will have exchange and server on
it. The
reason we are doing this is because i have over 40 clients now
and we
are adding 10 new touchscreens and 21 laptops and another offsite
location inwhich it may have 3 to 4 computer there. So i will not
beable to go to SBS 2003. So the question is will this be hard to
move
the information from the sbs 2000 to the server 2003 and what
software
will i need.

I have:
2 copies of server 2003
exchange server 2003
sbs 2000
sbs 2003 trial if needed

we are running on the sbs 2000 dns, exchange, that is really
about
it. They do have a Access file that some people are using that
need
to move and have no problems.

I nned help, I am going to do this next year and want to make
sure I
dont mess anything up.

Thanks
Robert








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