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From: techsquared on 18 Jul 2010 19:37

I am having some issues migrating SBS2003 to a 2008 Server R2 standard.

I have transferred all FSMO roles over to the 2008 Server. As well as,
DHCP and DNS. There is no need for me to setup or migrate Exchange
settings since my client is no longer using exchange. When I shut off
the SBS 2003 Server. AD on the 2008 Server errors out. Basically it's
saying that the domain cannot be located or that it does not exist. So
there is obviously something that I have forgotten. Any help on this
would be greatly appreciated. Also it doesn't look like the SYSVOL
Folder has transferred correctly either.

Thanks in advance!


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From: Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] on 19 Jul 2010 08:33
If you did not get domain replication to the SBS 2008, can you fall back
to start over?

If you aren't using Exchange, what are you doing that is SBS specific?

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> I am having some issues migrating SBS2003 to a 2008 Server R2
> standard.
>
> I have transferred all FSMO roles over to the 2008 Server. As well as,
> DHCP and DNS. There is no need for me to setup or migrate Exchange
> settings since my client is no longer using exchange. When I shut off
> the SBS 2003 Server. AD on the 2008 Server errors out. Basically it's
> saying that the domain cannot be located or that it does not exist. So
> there is obviously something that I have forgotten. Any help on this
> would be greatly appreciated. Also it doesn't look like the SYSVOL
> Folder has transferred correctly either.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> http://forums.techarena.in
>


From: Steve Foster on 19 Jul 2010 09:04
techsquared wrote:

>
> I am having some issues migrating SBS2003 to a 2008 Server R2
> standard.
>
> I have transferred all FSMO roles over to the 2008 Server. As well as,
> DHCP and DNS. There is no need for me to setup or migrate Exchange
> settings since my client is no longer using exchange. When I shut off
> the SBS 2003 Server. AD on the 2008 Server errors out. Basically it's
> saying that the domain cannot be located or that it does not exist. So
> there is obviously something that I have forgotten. Any help on this
> would be greatly appreciated. Also it doesn't look like the SYSVOL
> Folder has transferred correctly either.

Start by using DCDiag.

It doesn't sound to me like the new domain controller is fully
operational yet.

Note that if you don't intend to retain Exchange in the overall
environment, you *need* to uninstall it from the SBS and cleanly remove
Exchange from the network. You *don't* simply "turn off" Exchange.

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From: kj [SBS MVP] on 19 Jul 2010 14:37
techsquared wrote:
> I am having some issues migrating SBS2003 to a 2008 Server R2
> standard.
>
> I have transferred all FSMO roles over to the 2008 Server. As well as,
> DHCP and DNS. There is no need for me to setup or migrate Exchange
> settings since my client is no longer using exchange. When I shut off
> the SBS 2003 Server. AD on the 2008 Server errors out. Basically it's
> saying that the domain cannot be located or that it does not exist. So
> there is obviously something that I have forgotten. Any help on this
> would be greatly appreciated. Also it doesn't look like the SYSVOL
> Folder has transferred correctly either.
>
> Thanks in advance!

DNS is used by DC, server, and workstations alike to find Active Directory
Services. All DNS client settings should now reference the new 2008 R2
Server's IP address and have no reference to the old SBS server. If that's
all done then proceed to the DCDiag/ netdiags/ (and R2 has built in Best
Practice Analyzers).



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From: techsquared on 19 Jul 2010 12:17

Thanks for the replies guys. The new Server is 2008 Standard x64 not an
SBS 2008, I just wanted to clear that up. I had not uninstalled exchange
on the old sbs 2003 server simply because of public folder reasons but,
I intend on doing this today. I'm assuming replication is not working
correctly because of the SYSVOL folder has not copied over correctly. As
far as "falling back" what do you mean by that Larry? Do I transfer the
FSMO roles back to the SBS 2003? As well as, make it a global catalog
again. Then transfer everything back to the new 2008 server? I had to
prepare the sbs2003 AD originally in order for me to introduce the 2008
Server in the domain so, I was able to do that with no problem. The FSMO
roles transferred over fairly easy... it just seems that Replications
between the two servers has not completed yet. Neither have any group
policy objects. Do I have to transfer Group Policy objects from the old
sbs2003 server to the new 2008 server or is that something that takes
place when replication completes? I guess I'm just not too clear on
that.

Thanks again guys... This is driving me crazy :)


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