Migrating from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 R2
Hello, experts.
Now I have SBS 2000 with about 25 users/computers. But the server hardware it is running on is old and is suffering from overloads often and is very very slow.
I have plans to buy new server hardware with SBS 2003 R2.
QUESTION: as these two operating systems cannot co-exist on the same network is there any way I could easily thansfer all users/groups/DC settings and other stuff from old server to new one?
As I understand even if I manually create the same domain (e.g. MyDomain.local), recreate user accounts and groups with same name this will not save me from "reconnectiong" all workstations to newly created domain.
Any thoughts/ideas/links on this kind of migration would be great.
Thanks for your time
Ramuncikas
Now I have SBS 2000 with about 25 users/computers. But the server hardware it is running on is old and is suffering from overloads often and is very very slow.
I have plans to buy new server hardware with SBS 2003 R2.
QUESTION: as these two operating systems cannot co-exist on the same network is there any way I could easily thansfer all users/groups/DC settings and other stuff from old server to new one?
As I understand even if I manually create the same domain (e.g. MyDomain.local), recreate user accounts and groups with same name this will not save me from "reconnectiong" all workstations to newly created domain.
Any thoughts/ideas/links on this kind of migration would be great.
Thanks for your time
Ramuncikas
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Hi Ramuncikas,
You are partially correct, the two cannot exist together - for a long period of time :)
The best way to do this is to swing it http://www.sbsmigration.com
There are, of course, other alternatives;
http://sbsurl.com/migrate
(there is another link I am looking for, Jeff should be around to post it in a sec :))
Hope that helps,
-red
You are partially correct, the two cannot exist together - for a long period of time :)
The best way to do this is to swing it http://www.sbsmigration.com
There are, of course, other alternatives;
http://sbsurl.com/migrate
(there is another link I am looking for, Jeff should be around to post it in a sec :))
Hope that helps,
-red
Just FYI, you MUST remove the workstations from your current domain before doing a manual migration. They will not be recognized by the new server install, and will need to be individually reconnected via the http://<servername>/connectcomput
Jeff
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