Re: SBS2003-SBS2008 migration question
- From: "Curlergrrl" <curlergrrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:31:22 -0400
Thanks for taking the time to respond, Allen. Unfortunately, your advice about cleaning up the C: drive just won't work. We've already done everything we can to free up space on that drive. All of the data, etc., including user files, Exchange databases and LOB applications, are already on a different partition, and there are still only about 800MB free. This is not enough to do the Windows 2003 SP2 install, which requires something over 1GB free on the system drive.
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Deb
"AllenM" <NoReply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OURZLZ5DKHA.4376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've just finished a SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and can attest that the preliminary requirements is very important and should not be over looked. You can clean up C: drive in order to install SP2. First off you can start by moving or even deleting the pagefile sys at this point. you can also remove any MS Updates that have been downloaded and installed already. You can move the Exchange mailbox stores. If your users home directories are on the C: drive you can move them also. Also consider removing any programs as they will need to be reinstalled on the new server. Sharepoint appears to not be an isssue but I would suggest you upgrade the MSXML to 6.0.
Also another important bit of advise based upon my experience. Clean up AD as much as possible. that includes inactive user accounts as well as security groups and sitribution lists. Cleanup any "Shares" that are no longer valid or being used. Make sure you upgrade Exchange to to SP2 and have the users clean up their mailboxes especially the Exchange default folders that include, Inbox, Sent and especially Deleted Items and Junk mailboxes. Remember that this is a "migration" so whatever exists on the source server comes over to the destination server. Do not defer from the documentation. I can attest that if you follow it step by step the migration will be simple.Here's one more important piece of advice. The 2 SBS servers can remain online at the same time for 21 days. Do not do the last step "Finish the SBS 2008 Migration" until your are absolutely sure the old server has been completely migrated as far as needed data or backups because this will dcpromo your old SBS 2003 server and the 21 day rule is now obsolete.
"Curlergrrl" <curlergrrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e3dmNM5DKHA.5956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI have just gone through the preliminary steps for checking the status of the SBS2003 domain before migration. The old domain doesn't meet several of the requirements listed in the migration documentation. The problem areas are: Windows 2003 SP2 is not, and cannot be installed (not enough space on the system drive); Sharepoint SP3 is not installed, but the customer does not use Sharepoint at all; and the MSXML core services version is old - version 4 instead of 6, which can probably be remedied.
My problem is that the old server is in bad shape hardware-wise due to a failed drive in a RAID5 array. We are trying to get this migration done as quickly as possible to avoid trying to rebuild an array that may not even be viable any more. I am not happy about the idea of trying to install any service packs, even if I can figure out a way to get them to install. Does this make it impossible to do a direct migration? What are my options?
Thanks for your help.
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Deb
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