Re: SBS 2000 to 2003

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Hi Jason

There are several approaches that will work for you and as you said ADMT is the worst!!!

I highly recommend the Swing Migration approach. The small fee Jeff charges for his kit includes support in case of any difficulty and the biggest advantage is that you can plug the Workstations into the new server without touching them. The old server can stay on line while you prep the Temp DC and install the new server. A very smooth migration!

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
MCP Microsoft Small Business Specialist
COMPUMAC

<jason.burch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ea9a2508-7020-464b-9d3b-743207a58f88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have an exsting SBS2000 server and an additional Win2k server used
for TS/Citrix. We would like to upgrade to SBS2003 on new hardware.
I have performed many upgrades like this (AD 2000 to 2003, Exchange
2000 to 2003) but never specifically with SBS.

My first thought was to simply install the new SBS2003 server into the
existing sbs2000 domain / exchange org. I could then simply transfer
FSMO roles, move all mailboxes, move data and decomission the SBS2000
server. Upong further reading I found that the Microsoft
recomendation for this move is a lot more involved than I expected -
new domain, ADMT etc - YUCK!

I found www.sbsmigration.com and it seems to do what I want, but again
seems like a lot of extra steps and the only gain is retaining the
original server name, which I dont think I reall need. Outlook
clients should get forwarded after the move mailbox, the only UNC
paths used are in login scripts that I can update.

Why can't I simply install the SBS 2003 server into the SBS 2000
domain, migrate and decomission the old server? I read a similar
process for Migrating SBS2003 to new hardware that advocates runnint 2
SBS servers for a few days, is this impossible with SBS2000 and
SBS2003?

Thanks
Jason

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Relevant Pages

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  • Re: << SMB Nation - THE get together for SBSers>>
    ... > SBS MVPs expected to hang out there: ... > looks like a session on SBS Migration will be added. ... and bringing the new SBS server in almost transparently. ...
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