Migrating to SBS 2003
- From: surpressed@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Aug 2005 03:38:24 -0700
I'm planning on doing my first SBS deployment next week for the company
where Im working at and thought that I would throw my migration plan up
onto the Forum to get some feedback or suggestions. Appreciate any
input or help.
We currently have 10-20 users and a lot of mailgroups on 1 Windows
Server 2000 (DC) deployed with Exchange 2000 on it. Next to e-mail the
server is being used for backup runs and file/printer sharing. We have
purchased a new server as well as SBS 2003 Premium Edition, and have to
migrate all data to the new server.
We think the migration could be as follows:
1) Install SBS 2003 on the new server.
2) Export the Exchange 2000 data from the old server onto an additional
external disk using the ExMerge extraction tool.
3) Create the users and groups manualy on the new domain
4)Manually import the PST files into Exchange 2003 on the new SBS
Server
My thought process is that as we are only dealing with 8 users (and
their data) that manually doing the export and import for Exchange data
as well as setting up a new AD, will not be too cumbersome, time
consuming or risky.
I am a bit familiar with "swing" migrations, but am thinking that due
to the number of users and data we're talking about that the risk is
minimal in doing it the way Ive mentioned above.
Im interested in hearing any feedback or advice on things to keep in
mind if we do go ahead and do it the export/import way. I'm also
open to hearing any comments as to why we should not do it that way,
and which way would be recommended (and why)?
Appreciate your feedback.
.
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