Re: Migrating SBS 2003 To new hardware - Need Help!

Nope, not funny at all. But yes, you can reverse all of the steps in step 2 and remove the new server from the network. That will prevent the rebooting. Make sure your roles transfer BACK to the old server before removing the new machine from the domain and you'll be fine. Just go slow and steady, and make backups.

As far as the 4 or 5 hours, honestly that is not a lot of time in the scope of a whole server migration. Yeah, it is time lost, but you should really be planningon dedicating two working days (or more if this is your first time) to the migration...and you should do it all at once. Leaving both servers on the network for an extended period of time is just asking for various components to get out of sync...

-Cliff

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6E8B18CF-00C6-4E80-BF9F-E137B032732A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sorry for this, but I really need some advice... I am moving an old SBS 2003
installation to new hardware (with new licenses). I am following the Technet
whitepaper "Migrating Windows Small Business Server 2003 to New Hardware". I
completed Step 2 of the white paper and was waiting for "Line of Business"
application developer to set a date of when they can be on site to move their
application before I proceeded to migrate Exchange.

In the mean time, the server started rebooting today every hour with event
codes 1001, 1012, 1011. The event codes say that I am in violation of EULA
since I have two SBS servers in the same domain (following the instructions
from Technet as described in the white paper above). It appears that there
is a two week limit on having two domain controllers on the same SBS Domain!

So... with my customer's application server rebooting every hour (this
really isn't funny - Nagware at its worst!), does anyone have a suggestion?
- Is there a way to lengthen or reset the timer? Two more weeks would do it.
- Can I reverse the steps in the white paper and restart when the vendor is
ready? This would be painful as the original process took 4 - 5 hours to get
this far (the old hardware is lacking).
- Proceeding with the installation cannot occur for a couple of days, which
means the Doctor's office server will reboot 20 - 30 times...

Thanks for any and all advice...

.

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