Re: Migration Questions

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Well, its not free, but the widely accepted standard for migrating to new hardware is found at sbsmigration.com
It involves the use of an intermediate server, which allows you to have the new final target server have the same name and preserve the domain

Now granted with lots of research and time, you can go out and find all this yourself...but Jeff has done a great job of bring all this togehter and adding some tools to automate some of the required AD cleanup, etc.

worth the money in the amount of time you will save on the migration.

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"Andre Southgate" <Andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!> wrote in message news:4690FAFF.DCE4.00AE.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!...
Hi There!

We are planning a migration for a server which is running SBS 2003 (Non Service Packed Non R2) to a 2003 R2 Fully Patched Environment

We are relunctant to patch the old server as its pretty unstable and we are worried the entire thing is going to fall over, though if its required to complete
then we will take the plunge and do it.

I am wondering if there are any step by step guides for doing this migration to new hardware around that we can use to do this migration.

The last attempts we have tried didn't work well, the first when we tried to join the new server to the old domain, which went ok, but when we tried to install Exchange
on the new server it threw up installation errors we were unable to resolve (and unfortunately the engineer in question didn't take note of the error message).

We then tried to use an interim server, however we were unable to join the new server to the interim server domain due to unresolvable DNS type errors.

I suspect we are not executing one or more steps correctly, but to me it seemed information on these exact types of migrations were relatively thin on the ground.

Any information would be much appreciated.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Migrating SBS 2003 To new hardware - Need Help!
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  • Re: Migrating SBS 2003 To new hardware - Need Help!
    ... This is a one time migration and I don't anticipate migrating this site or any other site to new hardware. ... Is it worth purchasing the software and learning the software to migrate one site? ... Make sure your roles transfer BACK to the old server before ...
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  • Re: Justification for creating a new Domain
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  • Re: Migrate to new Hardware and/or SBS2003
    ... to SBS2003 first on your current server, ... My first swing migration was an SBS server with 20 users, ... Do you axpect any problems on the new Hardware ... > and should we Upgrade to SBS2003 to avoid strange problems. ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: Migrate to new Hardware and/or SBS2003
    ... > There's more than one way to do a migration, and a lot of things add into ... > to SBS2003 first on your current server, ... >> Migrating to new Hardware. ... >> and should we Upgrade to SBS2003 to avoid strange problems. ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)