Chris Rowley 
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| 3/25/2008 01:22 PM |
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Hi All
I'm looking to migrate from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 and am seriously considering using the Swing Migration Kit, but have a few questions first.
From what I understand, you're not allowed to have 2 SBS servers in the same domain, can anyone elaborate on this? Are you not able to manually join the second SBS, does it join and not work? Explode into little pieces? Ring MS and they send the heavies round? Etc... Some more information on this would be very much appreciated.
I ask as I noticed that as part of the Swing migration you join the Temp DC built using SBS media to the original domain and this obviously contradicts this rule.
Thanks in advance.
Chris.
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Kevin Da Silva
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| 3/25/2008 05:10 PM |
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Two SBS servers can exist in the same domain for a period of 7 days, after there will shutdowns every hour for the new server.
That 7 days gives you enough time to migrate everything over, or should give you enough time.
It has to do with the SBS Core service. |
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Chris Rowley
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| 3/25/2008 05:22 PM |
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That's great, thanks for the info.
So is this the case for SBS 2000 as well? I'm presuming this is to do with the Server owning the FSMO and GC roles?
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Kevin Da Silva
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| 3/25/2008 07:55 PM |
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| The SBS server that your going to keep has to hold all the FSMO Roles and must be a GC as well. This is with both versions of SBS 2000 and 2003. |
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Chris Rowley
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| 3/25/2008 09:18 PM |
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Ok, again Kevin, thanks for the help.
What's stopping me ADPreping the SBS 2000 domain, adding a SBS 2003 box, replicating AD, moving Exchange mailboxes and demoting the SBS 2000 box?
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Kevin Da Silva
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| 3/25/2008 09:29 PM |
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Nothing ....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884453
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Chris Rowley
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| 3/25/2008 09:40 PM |
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I think what's confused me is that in one breath MS are saying that the use the SBS 2000 - 2003 guide which involves ADMT but the next paragraph pretty much says that it can be used but beware that you only have 7 days...
Is it just me or is the SBS world is so overly complicated when it comes to migrations and unwritten rules..?
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Marina Roos
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| 3/26/2008 12:42 PM |
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Hi Chris,
Please contact Jeff as he has very clear answers for you on all your questions. The Swing It method is very good and doesn't do any messing, provided you have read all his documentation and are following the directions. Whereas the MS ADMT method is messy, and will require you use another AD local domain name as well as another server name, which will break a lot.
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