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Migrating users from sbs 2003 sp1 to server 2003

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by natty575

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Hi there, I hope someone can help me with some ideas of the best way to migrate users from 1 domain (domain old, existing of 1 sbs server) to a new domain (domain new, existing of 1 2k3 server). The sbs box will then be re-installed with 2k3 and used as an application server in the new domain.

Everything that I understand is that you cannot create a trust between a sbs server domain and a 2k3 domain, so cannot use any migration methods that would keep user attributes.

I'm not sure if the best course of action would be to change the name of domain old to domain new, add 2k3 server as a member server, then allow replication of AD, then switch off sbs server and check everything is running ok before dcpromo up 2k3 server, and re-installing SBS server. I'm not even sure if this can be done.

One of the other issues that I have is that Exchange is running on the sbs, how do you copy the exchange store to the new server without causing conflicts?

Originally the plan was to create new domain, get server up and running and move everyone to new domain, but resaerching this seems quite tricky.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

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by mike.corn

I am attempting something of sorts. I have a 2003 domain that has a usn name of .com along with our Dns structure. I inherited this and am of the opinion it is so f'd i would start from scratch with a new .local domain and move all my app servers, exchange, and ad to the local domain, and then reconfigure the old domain as a perimeter network domain. good luck, let me know what you discover.

by cg it

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555073/en-us

review this article and related articles.

The way that works is to upgrade the existing SBS to W2003....but... like any change, there are problems typically with Exchange and moving mailboxes. if your going to run Exchange have everyone save their Outlook stuff to pst files and back them up onto CDs for flash drives. easily restored once you have to mailboxes in Exchange...

If you are not going to run Exchange, have everyone back up everything in Outlook to a CD or Flash Drive as you know, they will lose everything once you get rid of Exchange.

also and files stored on the SBS box needs to be backed up and permissions documented. one other area that is a real pain is losing file and folder permissions to shared resources.

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