Re: SBS2003 to 2008 migration on the same box (not upgrading)?

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You know better as I have not suffered this yet. Introducing the
recovery storage group might be more fun than one wants?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:47:12 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, no, you could use an SBS 2k3 tempdc. In fact, I'd prefer it. You'd
have to move the Exchange using a recovery group mount, but that should be
doable.


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"Jim Behning SBS MVP" <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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And it requires a 64 bit, 4 gig ram minimum temporary machine. Granted
that box is only $600 if you do not happen to have a modern box that
will take 4 gigs of ram. Any new decent workstation should be 64 bit
and take some more ram and a new temporary hard drive.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:20:37 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're going to have to have someplace to park the current domain and
exchange. A swing to a temporary box and then flatten your original and
install back on it would work, but it's a lot trickier here since you
can't
do a simple move of the Exchange files. You have to move the individual
mailboxes while you have both versions of Exchange up and running. And it
will be slow. Really slow.

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"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've read through the 2008 migration installation CHM file, and that
sounds terrific if you have a new server available, but what about the
situation where you want to put 2008 on the same box as 2003? I'm not
speaking of an upgrade, which I know isn't supported because of the move
to 64-bits, but a separate clean installation of 2008 on another
partition
which could utilize some form of earlier export from 2003 (AD, settings,
etc) that could be imported into 2008? I realize this is far from
ideal,
but I was wondering if there was a means for doing it.

Let's assume in this case that the box meets specs (enough RAM, 64-bit
CPU).

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