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sbs2003 migration to sbs2011

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Please advise if i will have any issue doing the following: I have a remote client that currently have sbs2003, i want to install sbs20011 on the server in my lab then ship it to the client with the OS installed. I have a VPN tunnel setup between the sites so anythign that needs to talk back to the domain can over VPN tunnel. Please let me know if any of you experts see this will be an issue for me and anythign i should watch out for. The server will also be re-ip'd once it is delivered to the same lan of the sbs2003 server.

Thank in advance
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personally, I think you are asking for trouble.

You can take it to site, set it up properly and then complete the migration remotely, you would have to be on-site for 2 hours max.
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Thanks, taking to the site may not be an option. What type of issues may i encounter?
Replicating data over a VPN is tricky at best and is not very fault tolerant. A temporary failure in the VPN can leave both source and destination broken and painful to recover. I'm with de aster. Schedule an on-site deployment.
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Not to mention that all clients will be accessing the migrated data over a VPN.  

It's messy and unnecessary.
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what about prepping the server to a point where i can RDP to it then completeing the migration when server arrived on location?
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thanks guys