+1 I could do the research, most of us are quite capable. Having everything laid out, along with some common pitfalls was extremely helpful. It's a small price to pay to condense hours of research for something that is rarely done, but it so very important that it be done right. MBS put a blog post about this process sometime back, too. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/05/18/sbs-2003-hardware-migration-upgrade.aspx
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Amen to that. SBSMigration.com was well worth every penny for our > migrations from SBS 2003, to Standard servers and SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. > > Greg Sweers > CEO > ACTS360.com > P.O. Box 1193 > Brandon, FL 33509 > 813-657-0849 Office > 813-758-6850 Cell > 813-341-1270 Fax > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:33 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SBS2003 Migration Question > > Hopefully he already read this, > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=52b7ea63-78af-4a96-811e-284f5c1de13b&displaylang=en. > I can only say that my small contribution to > sbsmigration.com was money well spent when I did it. > > John W. Cook > System Administrator > Partnership For Strong Families > 315 SE 2nd Ave > Gainesville, Fl 32601 > Cell (352) 215-6944 > MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SBS2003 Migration Question > > Only when used appropriately, or it will be your deadliest enemy.. :) > > 1. Make sure you have all your mailboxes and public folders replicated > off. > 2. Make sure you have a active GC other than your old SBS. You should > have moved all FSMO roles before number 3. > 3. Dcpromo old server, it will tell you if there is something left on it > that needs to be moved off. > 4. Clean up any old records, DNS, WINS, Old computer account. > > **Note, until computers with Outlook configured talk to the old exchange > box and get the referral to the new one they will point to the old one if > you take it offline too quickly.** Once they have all changes you can > shutdown Exchange, otherwise you will need to edit the profile on the local > machines. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 8:46 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SBS2003 Migration Question > > ADSIEDIT is your friend..... > > John W. Cook > System Administrator > Partnership For Strong Families > 315 SE 2nd Ave > Gainesville, Fl 32601 > Cell (352) 215-6944 > MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Caisse [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 8:27 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SBS2003 Migration Question > > The old exchange server is still in the AD. You must remove/decommission > the old exchange server. You will also want to DCPROMO the old SBS box also > to completely remove it from AD. > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Everett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:28 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: SBS2003 Migration Question > > Hi Guys, > > It's rather late and my brain's fried. Hopefully someone can point out > what I missed. > > I have managed to migrate SBS2003 to Windows 2008 Standard Edition w/ > Exchange 2010. > > AD has replicated, the files and permissions are good, Mailboxes all moved, > DNS and DHCP looking reasonable. > > At this point I have not moved the FSMO roles or anything like that. > > We shut down both the old SBS2K3 server and the new 2008 server and > reorganized the server room. > > I then turned on only the 2008 server. Workstations can log into the > domain and show the logon server as the new server. > > Interestingly Outlook on the workstations will not successfully connect to > Exchange on the new server. The server name in Outlook does point to the > new server. > > Shutting down the new server and starting the SBS server and then the 2008 > server allows Outlook to work successfully. > > I suspect I have to transfer a role or something equally basic. 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