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Funny, that is exactly what I was planning if there weren't any alternatives. I should probably just buckle down and do it the hard way...<br />
Thank you Mestha!
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Funny, that is exactly what I was planning if there weren't any alternatives. I should probably just buckle down and do it the hard way...
Thank you Mestha!

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Hello,<br />
Just tried to do a migration from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008, the install failed on the answer file because our domain name was single label. &nbsp;Now we are stuck on how to proceed. &nbsp;Everything I have read says that you cannot rename the sbs 2003 domain so it seems we would need to do a clean install of sbs 2008 with a new domain name but the issues that I am worried about is how to move the existing Exchange data over. &nbsp;I don't mind recreating the AD stuff as we don't have that many accounts anyway.<br />
Also open to other ideas to &quot;make&quot; the migration work if possible. &nbsp;I would love to be able to just ad .local to our current domain instead.<br />
THanks...
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Hello,
Just tried to do a migration from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008, the install failed on the answer file because our domain name was single label.  Now we are stuck on how to proceed.  Everything I have read says that you cannot rename the sbs 2003 domain so it seems we would need to do a clean install of sbs 2008 with a new domain name but the issues that I am worried about is how to move the existing Exchange data over.  I don't mind recreating the AD stuff as we don't have that many accounts anyway.
Also open to other ideas to "make" the migration work if possible.  I would love to be able to just ad .local to our current domain instead.
THanks...

SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration with Single Label Domain Name

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).