Re: Transition Pack
- From: v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Jenny wu [MSFT]")
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:06:06 GMT
Hi,
Thanks for your update! I am glad to know that things are getting fine now.
I appreciate your time and effort the issue. Also would like to thanks for
your kind for sharing the detail experience with us.
Please post back when you need further assistance on this issue and you are
always welcome!
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Jenny Wu
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>I ran the transition pack Sunday, along with SBS Service Pack 1 because it
>was mandatory. Everything went fine except at one point I got an error
about
>Exchange, and two other components not being compatible with this version
of
>Windows. After a couple of reboots I got a report that the Transition Pack
>completed successfully. My next step was to install Terminal Services. I
>checked add/remove programs and it wasn't there. Thinking back to the
errors
>I got during the transition pack install I was about reinstall it but
>decided to try and reinstall Windows 2003 SP1 (also part of the
>instructions) and am glad I did because it fixed that and a few other red
>flags in the Event Log. I also re-installed Exchange SP1. After SP1 reboot
>the server the Activate Windows Wizard popped up saying that time has
lapsed
>and I needed to activate windows before continuing. For some reason it
>wouldn't let me do it over the internet and when I called MS I noticed
that
>it didn't generate an installation key. After the MS guy hung up on me
(not
>sure if it was an accident or not) I reboot the server, hit cancel on the
>Activation Wizard, which thankfully let me in Windows this time
(previously
>it went back to the log on screen). When I ran the activation wizard from
>Windows it generated an installation key and I was able to activate over
the
>internet. It was a strange install that seemed like could've gone south at
>any point. It took about 5 hours to complete the full process.
>
>""Jenny wu [MSFT]"" <v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for posing here! Also thanks for Cris's input.
>>
>> To upgrade SBS 2003 server to full package product Windows and Exchange
>> Server 2003, you just need use the Transition Pack to remove the SBS
>> licensing restrictions. Once the Transition Pack is applied, the server
>> changes to a normal windows 2003 server and it will have 5 client CALs;
>> Additional Exchange and Windows CALs must be purchased. But the server
>> still is a DC. If you don't want to the server act as DC, you can run
>> Dcpromo.exe to demote the server. It is not necessary to run dcpromo.exe
>> in
>>
>
>
>
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