During a migration of SBS 2003 on a virtual server to SBS 2008 on a physical server. Ran in to an issue with the dual built in nics on the physical server (Dell 2950). The nics would not work consistantly. Finally disabled them and started the migration with a USB nic (only thing we had available, Loooong story).
Everything we tried to do to fix the issue was making it worse. We decided to abort.
I had made a full backup the night before, and a system state backup before running the Migration preparation tool.
When I restored the System state and rebooted it appeared that the system state restore had done nothing. I have done this before on other failed migrations and everything was fine. The only difference in this case is there is an additional domain controller.
Thinking that I had gone insane and made the backup after running the migration preparation tool. I did a system state restore made from the backup of the night before. Same results the SBS 2008 server still shows up in AD. The Role master is still the SBS 2008 box.
WTF?
Everything we tried to do to fix the issue was making it worse. We decided to abort.
I had made a full backup the night before, and a system state backup before running the Migration preparation tool.
When I restored the System state and rebooted it appeared that the system state restore had done nothing. I have done this before on other failed migrations and everything was fine. The only difference in this case is there is an additional domain controller.
Thinking that I had gone insane and made the backup after running the migration preparation tool. I did a system state restore made from the backup of the night before. Same results the SBS 2008 server still shows up in AD. The Role master is still the SBS 2008 box.
WTF?