Re: mail and ad migration
- From: "kj" <kj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:39:14 -0700
I've recently used ADMT (v3) to sucessfully (inter-forest) migrate a whacked
up 2000AD with a few hundered XP/2K workstations, user accounts, and
Exchange Mailboxes to 2003AD and Exchange 2003.
Spent a week in the virtual lab testing, and a three day weekend migrating
workstations. 100% success rate on the workstations 10% of which were
laptops. Only one caused me to sweat bullets. It was the Controllers
workstation which took over an hour to finish. All other WS finished in 10
to 15 minutes. Wheew! All user profiles migrated using the recommended
"replace" method. NO users were logged on and non were allowed to log on
until after the WS migration completed.
After all that I investigated using ADMT and MS's published ADMT method to
migrate SBS in the same way. I know it says it can be done, but for less
than 50 workstations I don't think I'd try it. Even then, ADMT for SBS
migrations just doesn't give me warm and fuzzies.
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/kj
"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:OzqYszwRGHA.4740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I completed an ADMT migration. New hardware. New domain. New servername.
New IP. Nothing was wrong with the old domain, servername, or IP - I just
needed new hardware. But ADMT makes you throw it *all* away ;-(.
2 of 10 client PC's didn't migrate (either machine or user accounts) ; the
users got new profiles and weren't thrilled about it ;-). I spent days
getting all the shortcuts and mapped drives on workstations working again.
In the end, a lot of third party applications on the workstations were
uninstalled and reinstalled to cure errors with unc paths, etc.
Since the ADMT migration, I believe every single workstation has been
re-installed as little nigglers kept cropping up.
Oh, and I don't remember the issue that I couldn't resolve - but this
migration was the only time I've had to call PSS to get a job done. The
phone call was 3 hours long, and started at 3:00 am because the business
needed to be online in the morning and that deadline was fast approaching.
There's no backing out - ADMT reaches a point of no return fairly early in
the process - it's an all or nothing proposition, and all in one sitting.
Once you'ver touched the workstations with the process - you are trapped
and can only hope and pray that you'll make the finish line.
All tolled, counting the little nigglers and eventually, the inevitable
workstation rebuilds - I bet I spent 30 or 40 hours on it. Hardly
efficient for one server and 10 workstations.
I've learned a lot since this, and could possibly get a better result from
an ADMT migration today. But the most important thing I've learned is not
to use ADMT ;-).
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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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understand." - Confucius
"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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actually, the whole Swing It!! process is based on MS documents which are
freely available, and a good slice of very careful thought and
creativity.
There is an official 'MS' method of migrating, using ADMT:
from http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/sbs/upgrade/default.mspx
For step-by-step instructions to complete a server migration, see
Migrating from Small Business Server 2000 or Windows 2000 Server to
Windows Small Business Server 2003.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=16414
Sorry that I can't be much help on the question though, there are a
couple of aspects of an ADMT style migration that I don't like so I've
never completed one.
"saint" <saint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EA440D45-6377-488D-AF07-87E9B8874238@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have no idea why everyone keeps on telling me about sbs
migration?.......why should I pay some 200 dollar for some documents
that
microsoft should atleast try to publish
"Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)" wrote:
why not look at sbsmigration.com
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Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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Please do not respond directly to me, but only post in the newsgroup so
all can take advantage
"saint" <saint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In migrating mailboxes and AD from sbs2003 to another sbs2003; should
they
both have the same service packs installed? If so; can I simply
create AD
manually and then migrate mailboxes or must I use ADMT, and then move
the
mailboxes?
Thanks for your inputs
.
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