SBS 2003 Migration to new Hardware

From: Johnjo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/05/04


Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:25:04 -0700

Hello, I have sbs 2003 running on a very old dusty
machine in a company of around 50 staff. The machine is
strugling badly (not surprised as it's basically a
desktop PC with one IDE HDD and 500MB Memory).

I've just bought a new Compaq ML370 with Raid one Scsi
for the system and Raid 5 for the data drive.

Lots of memory, dual processers, full redundency all
round.

I need to basically copy my current SBS config to this
new machine but not migrate, I need to leave the old
machine in tact so I can role back if any issues arise.
Plus I doubt the old machine would take the migration
it'll probably crash.

I've built the new machine and installed SBS2003 with the
same name and domain on a different switch on it's own
with a PC. Name and Domain will have to be the same as so
much relys on them.

Are there any tools out there I can use to extract the AD
user info, groups and permissions and exchange info,
maybe also the policys. Then import to my new server,
test and move over?

Most of the documentation talks about full migrations and
makeing drastic changes, I can't do this.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Johnjo



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