Re: Transitioning hardware from SBS 2003 to SBS 2003

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Hello Miguel,

Thank you for your post and thanks for all the helpful inputs.
My name is Gary Wang, and it is my pleasure to work with you on this issue!
Please allow me to confirm that my understandings are correct. As I
understand it, the issue is:

You want to know how to migrate your SBS 2003 server to new hardware.

If I have misunderstood your concerns please feel free to let me know.

Suggestion :
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Firstly, please understand that our Microsoft is unable to support
migrating SBS server by using third party software like SBSSwing. If you'd
like to using that solution, please contact the administrator directly.
Also, migrating server by using image from other third party software is
not in our support boundary.

Besides Larry and Charlie's great helpful inputs, I would like to share
some additional information. Below is an official document about how to
migrate SBS 2003 to new hardware. For your reference:

Migrating Windows Small Business Server 2003 to New Hardware
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/62e2094e
-ad4e-4227-b20e-97a716ed7c861033.mspx

Hope it helps.

I look forward to your reply. Also, if you have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to let me know. I am happy to help. :-)

Thank you for your time and cooperation!

Best regards,

Gary Wang(MSFT)
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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| The Swing Migration tookit is a combination of documentation, scripts and
| support that allows you to easily and safely move your SBS server to new
| hardware without requiring you to touch any of the clients or make any
other
| changes. So yes, the migration toolkit is a special way of doing it.
|
| As for having a replicated AD? certainly you can. Any AD should be
| replicated. The limitation is only that which I said - it can't move the
| FSMO roles off. But you can certainly have a replicated AD that allows
you
| to easily recover - that's one part of the swing migration, in fact.
|
| --
| Charlie.
| http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
| http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
|
|
| "Netadmin" <Netadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:7D93216E-3823-4DC8-8C72-03B4E7E78998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Charlie,
| >
| > Thanks a lot for the suggestion, is the migration tool any special way
of
| > doing the "move" to the new hardware, thanks for letting me know that I
| > can
| > have more than one DC but it sound that I still cannot replicate the AD
| > for
| > "redundacy" and backup, thanks for your help and have a great day.
| > Regards,
| >
| > Miguel
| >
| > "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
| >
| >> You can certainly have more than one DC in SBS. Or many - the only
| >> requirement is that the FSMO roles have to stay with the SBS box.
| >>
| >> As Larry says: www.sbsmigration.com is your best bet.
| >>
| >> --
| >> Charlie.
| >> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
| >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
| >>
| >>
| >> "Netadmin" <Netadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| >> news:C3BE6FCE-BBDD-4B89-938F-9E1D0C1B0A53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> > Hello There,
| >> >
| >> > I have a main SBS 2003 and the hardware is not reliable enough and I
| >> > need
| >> > to
| >> > move the whole AD to a new hardware, could you please provide
| >> > information
| >> > on
| >> > the best way to transition to a new hardware?, I was thinking on
making
| >> > an
| >> > Image of the server and then using the new hadware as the repository;
| >> > there
| >> > are two windows 2003 member servers working as Terminal servers and
we
| >> > need
| >> > the least disruptions to these two servers, the domain is a SBS AD
| >> > domian
| >> > and
| >> > therefore I cannot have a secondary DC as in Windows 2003 AD, please
| >> > could
| >> > you point to best practices and or image maker, thanks and have a
great
| >> > day.
| >> > Kindest regards,
| >> >
| >> > Miguel
| >>
|
|

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