My company recently purchased a Dual AthlonMP box to replace our current PDC. The problem now is how to safely and successfully migrate all users, data, and policies over to the new server.
The new server will replace the current PDC. There is also a BDC on our network and the data on the old PDC will not be erased.
The steps that I have taken on the old server(according to a guide provided my Microsoft-Q228980) are:
1)Backup Existing Server to tape using BackupExec.
2)Create Emergency Repair Disk (ERD)
3)Use Migrate User Wizard to export current user.
4)Go into Exchange Administrator and do a directory export. (this exports all mailboxes but not the data they contain).
***No need to back up RAS, DNS, HDCP, Fax service, MS SQL, and Web service***
On the new server, these items have been performed:
1)Complete installation of SBS 4.5 (all components installed, except for Fax server).
***Gave the new server the same name but different IP address and set it to control a different domain so that it won’t conflict with the current PDC. I opted not to add the new server to the existing domain because it might cause problems or SBS will not allow two SBS servers running on the same license to function. Don’t know if this is true but just to be safe, I went with a new domain. I figured that I can change it back to the original domain after everything is complete***
2)Migrate users from the users.txt (step 3 above) file to the new server.
***skipped restore of RAS, DNS, DHCP, Fax service, and web service***
3)Copied shares with permissions intact.
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