RE: SBS2003 changed hardware

Hello again Terence,

Many thanks for your response. That is extrememly helpful, I shall proceed
as you have suggested.

Thanks again

--
Nick Brown
Systechnix Ltd


"Terence Liu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hello Nick,

Thank you for update.

For your situation, the old server hardware has failed, we only have to do
the Disaster Recovery of SBS if you have full backup of your SBS. This is a
complex process. If you do not full backup your SBS before the server
hardware failed, you can only fresh reinstall the SBS.

Note: Since there are not many users or client computers in the SBS domain,
select fresh reinstall the SBS is not a bad idea. You will get a clean SBS.

For your reference:
Disaster Recovery of SBS
==================
1. Insert SBS 2003 CD#1 into the CD driver. Boot the machine by using the
CD-Rom. Install SBS 2003 server. (Format original system drive)

2. Create new user accounts (duplicate the original accounts) by using Add
Users Wizard.

3. Open Services Console, stop "Microsoft Exchange Information Store"
service. Open "Exchange System Manager", navigate to "Servers"\<Server
Name>\"First Storage Group". Right-click it and choose "Properties". Select
the database folder. (The original database files should be copied to this
folder).

4. Open Exchange System Manager. Navigate to "Servers"\<Server Name>\"First
Storage Group"\"Mailbox Store". Right-click it and choose "Properteis".
Click "Database" tab and check "This database can be overwritten by a
restore" option. Also check this option for "Public folder store".

5. Open Services console, start "Microsoft Exchange Information Store"
service. In Exchange System Manager console, right-click "Mailbox store"
and choose "Mount Store". Also mount the public folder store.

6. In Exchange System Manager console, expand "Mailbox Store". Right-click
"Mailboxes" folder and choose "Run Cleanup Agent". After doing this, you
will see the mailboxes with red crosses in the right panel. Right-click
each mailbox and choose "Reconnect". Connect the mailboxes to the current
user accounts.

7. Restore the contents in Users shared folders.

8. Follow the KB 827701 to restore the SharePoint site.

The above steps will help you reinstall the SBS 2003 server. To preserve
client user profiles and settings that was on the original domain to the
new SBS 2003 installation, a manual way is documented in the KB article:

314045 HOW TO: Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314045

Another way is to create a local profile, copy the original domain profile
to the local profile, and then let the Setup Computer wizard do the task
map local profile to new domain profile for you.

As long as you create your computer accounts using the server manager's to
do list you will be prompted to migrate profile information. When you join
the workstations to the domain by using the web site (ie
http://servername/connectcomputer) part of the process of joining the
domain will allow you to migrate user settings. However, to use this
method, you need to make sure that the profile you want to migrate from is
a local user profile (Not a previous domain profile):

1. Before joining the client to SBS 2K3 domain, create a local profile, and
then copy the old domain profile to a local profile.

2. Add the SBS Server into the network

3. Use the Setup Computer Wizard in SBS 2003 to join the (now) XP Pro
machines to the SBS domain: Server Management, Standard Management, Client
Computers, Set Up Client Computers.

4. On the client, access http//<Server name>/connectcomputer to bring up
the Setup Computer Wizard, it will then allow you to map domain user
accounts to local profiles on the machine thus preserving your profiles:
Assign Users to this Computes and Migrate their Profiles.

5. You will Add a domain account to Users assigned to this computer!/, and
then choose the existing local user profile in the Current User Settings.
By Default, the value for Current User Settings is None.

For the detailed steps, please refer to the following documents:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2000/maintain/bkuprcvr.mspx

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/6/11671e4d-fb21-489c-870f-db36fd2
1a7d2/SBS_MoveDataFolders.DOC

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=487736f8-f6f5-436d-
a82d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en

I hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

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| Hi Terence,
|
| Many thanks for responding to my question. I guess I shall have to do a
| fresh install of SBS on the new server, and then manually re-create their
| users and client Pcs.
| This is because the old server hardware has failed and won't run, so I
can't
| do the migration as described in the article you gave me.
|
| Fortunately there are not many users or PCs so the manual reconfiguration
| won't take too long.
|
| --
| Nick Brown
| Systechnix Ltd
|
|
| "Terence Liu [MSFT]" wrote:
|
| > Hello Nick,
| >
| > Thank you for posting here.
| >
| > According to your description, I understand that you want to move the
old
| > SBS to a new hardware. If I have misunderstood the problem, please
don't
| > hesitate to let me know.
| >
| > Based on my research, we cannot easily install the old SBS hard disk in
the
| > new hardware server to do the migration. Otherwise, you may experience
many
| > hardware or driver related issues as you get now. The most important is
| > this is a not Microsoft supported scenario.
| >
| > To migrate the SBS to a new hardware, you need to perform the
step-by-step
| > document in the following page:
| >
| > Migrating Windows Small Business Server 2003 to New Hardware
| >
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/62e2094e
| > -ad4e-4227-b20e-97a716ed7c861033.mspx?mfr=true
| >
| > I hope these steps will give you some help.
| >
| > Thanks and have a nice day!
| >
| > Best regards,
| >
| > Terence Liu(MSFT)
| >
| > Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
| >
| > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
| >
| > =====================================================
| > This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
| > regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the
corresponding
| > newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely
manner.
| > You can locate the newsgroup here:
| > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
| >
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| > "Notify me of replies" box to receive e-mail notifications when there
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| > please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from your
| > issue.
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| > provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
| > different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean. In
doing
| > so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.
| >
| > For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly.
Please
| > check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.
| >
| > Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
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| > | I'm trying to rescue an SBS2003 system.
| > | Can I put the old, but working disc into an otherwise new PC ?
| > |
| > | I have actually tried, but with mixed results.
| > |
| > | The motherboard failed (along with its embedded network card etc),
but
| > the
| > | disc appears to be ok.
| > | I've put the disk into new server hardware (PC) and after a little
| > messing
| > | around with device drivers, it does at least boot up.
| > | However, it's clearly very unhappy! The Active directory is totally
'on
| > | strike' which is maybe not surprising, and of course Exchange isn't
| > playing
| > | either.
| > |
| > | I haven't tried to mess around with anything yet, but I did start to
set
| > the
| > | original IP address etc on the new network card. When I clicked on
apply,
| > I
| > | got warning saying that the IP I had chosen was already assigned to
| > another
| > | network adapter, but that this adapter was hidden from the list
.

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