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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

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Ramuncikas

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I think I'll choose to go a "manual" way

Interesting links though.
Thanks

Jeffrey Kane - TechSoEasy

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>/connectcomputer wizard. This wizard WILL migrate over the assigned user's local profile which includes all of their desktop settings though.

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Ramuncikas

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Thanks Jeff.