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April 30, 2010 at 11:32 PM
scott.manning

Replacing a windows 2000 SBS with a Windows 2008 Standard Server

by scott.manning . Updated 16 years, 2 months ago

We have a windows 2000 Small Business Server in our small office, that is also our a DC (Our only DC). It is also our File Server and Print Server.
We have SQL Installed on it and have one DB we use.

We want to replace it with a Windows 2008 Standard (Or Even foundation) server.

I thought i would be able to build the new server, install the OS, add it to the current domain, run dcpromo to promote it as the domain controller, Install SQL on it and set up our DB.
Is it really that easy?
What will happen with the AD Set up on the current server, is there anyway to copy all the information from the old server to the new one, or will all the users and computers have to be set up again?

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