Re: Move SBS 2K3 to new hardware

Hi David,

Jeff Middleton wrote a very good section on Disaster Recovery which includes
this type of scenario in Harry Brelsford book. Advanced Windows Small
Business Server 2003 Best Practices

You might also want to consider a Swing MIgration.

Jeff Loucks
888-474-2237
MVP



"David" <david.mackenzie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1169080407.336349.186930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all

I'm wanting to move an SBS 2K3 installation to new hardware and want to
know the quickest way to do this. The existing SBS server is an old IBM
x205 which has a P4 1.8 CPU and a single 40GB IDE HDD (Basic volume)
and I want to move it to a HP ML150 G3 which has a Xeon 3GHz CPU &
2x80GB SATA HDD's (hardware RAID-1).

My plan is to install the HP RAID controller drivers on the existing
server installation, then ghost the old HDD to the new server (resizing
the boot partition at the same time). Then I will run an in-place
upgrade (repair) on the new server to change the HAL and install the
new drivers.

Is this a feasible option or am I wasting my time? Have I missed any
steps in the process that might cause issues? I've done this
successfully with workstations but I'm a little more cautious doing it
on a server.

Thanks
David



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