Re: Swing Migration vs. Manaul Backing up/Restoring a Simple Network

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Do yourself a favour and buy the kit. It is cheap as chips and will save
you many hours and lots of grief (how much is you time worth?).

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you really want to have to recreate all your settings on the new
machine, change all the permissions and ownership of all your folders, and
so on, you certainly can recreate the domain from scratch. It's a
nuisance, but it's not by any means impossible.

I have been running my own Exchange server since Windows NT4 + Exchange
5.0 days. I have, more than once, rebuilt my domain from the ground up.
Saving all my files off to secure, verified backups. Extracting my entire
mail box to PST. My partner's mailbox to PST. and all my public folders to
PST. Carefully making a list of all the shared folders on the server. All
the printer names, etc. And then blowing away the original server and
recreating it, either on that hardware or new. I've also done it using
Jeff's Swing method. No question, Jeff's is a LOT less scary and much less
painful. My last migration was from Server 2k3 + Exchange 2k3 to SBS 2k3,
moving to a new server in the process. I actually did it while my partner
was out of town for the weekend. When she got back, she never even knew it
had happened. :)

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


scottls wrote:
Hi,

I have been reading about Jeff's Swing Migration and I need to replace
my 6 year old server and I definitely need to maintain the same domain.
I'm running SBS out of my home and my wife and I are the only users on
the network. I would have no problem purchasing the kit but from
reading people's comments it sounds like it's meant for people who have
pretty serious networks or are for network admins who could reuse the
kit (I'm a developer who does my own network as a hobby). I'm
wondering if I could simply backup our Outlook mail, contacts, etc. and
machine files/settings, bring the old server down, and rebuild the new
one duplicating many of the settings of the old one. Then when the new
one is up restore the Outlook and machines, etc.

Am I being too optimistic to think that I could simply do complete
backups/restores of Outlook and machine settings for this process?

Thanks for your help!!

Scott




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