Migrating Windows 2003 Standard to Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 standard.
Migrating Windows 2003 Standard to Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 standard.
Run a full backup on your MS 2003 standard server
- Make sure your domain has been promoted to domain functional level and forest function level of Windows Server 2003.
- To upgrade open up Active Directory Domains and Trustes
- Right click Active Directory Domains and Trusts and click Raise Forest Functional Level
i. Upgrade to windows server 2003
ii. This will upgrade your forest
- Now right click your domain and click raise domain functional level
i. Upgrade to windows server 2003
ii. This will upgrade your domain
- To verify everything is setup properly open up Active Directory Users and Computers
- Right click your domain and go to properties
i. Both domain and forest functional levels should have windows server 2003 underneath them
- Check event viewer and make sure there are no errors, especially dns or replication errors
- Stick in SBS 2008 disk 1 DVD into the Windows 2003 Standard server (source server)
- Open up a command prompt
- Change directories to cdrom drivetoolsadprep
- Run “adprep /forestprep”
i. Let this complete and make sure everything is successful
- Run “adprep /domainprep”
i. Let this complete and make sure everything is successful
- Run “adprep /domainprep gpprep”
i. Usually this wont run because the above commands did the trick
- Now open execute cdrom drive toolssourcetool.msi (this is a gui)
- Install the migration program
- After you install it run the wizard
- Now you will need to create an answer file
- You can now follow the SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration guide provided by Microsoft.
- This document is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=52b7ea63-78af-4a96-811e-284f5c1de13b&displaylang=en
- I started on page 17, but you are welcome to start at page 1
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