G’Day!
I’m looking to rebuild an existing 2000 SBS machine as a new 2003 R2 (non SBS) machine.
Should I just give up now?
I was planning on building a temporary 2003 R2 machine with Exchange 2003 and migrating the AD and exchange stuff over, then rebuilding on the original hardware and migrating back. However, by all account you can only have one DC in a 2000 SBS domain – sorta destroys that plan of attack.
We’re currently using veritas backup exec 11 for the backing up of stuff. Could I back up system state and mailboxes, wipe machine, rebuild machine (we have the technology, apparently) and then restore system state and mailboxes to the new versions?
No, didn’t think so. Can’t blame a guy for hoping though…
Maybe if I ran forestprep and domainprep /before/ backing up.. would that help any?
I’ve managed to upgrade the other servers in the domain to 2003, so this is the last hurdle. Well, tidying up the new terminal server also needs to be done, but I can’t really do that all that well until I’ve upgraded the DC so I can play with all the yummy new printer options in GP.
Any and all help, ideas, or beer appreciated.