We currently have a SBS 2003 Server and wish to shut it down and install Server 2003 Standard R2 on it. We have both Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint running on seperate servers within our network at this time. We never used SQL on SBS and we migrated Exchange to another server last month. The SBS 2003 Server is currently the Domain Controller as it has to be so it of course has Active Directory and is also running DNS, Print Server and DHCP.
We already have licensing for Server 2003 R2 and do not want to go down the expensive Microsoft transition pack road. My question is what is the best method to get Active Directory moved over if possible to the 2003 R2 Server? We will be naming the 2003 R2 Server the same name as the old SBS 2003 Server and use the same IP address also. We can shut down the entire network for a period of time to reformat the hard drive on the SBS 2003 Server and install Server 2003 R2 on the same piece of hardware.
Any help with this situation would be appreciated. If I would have know how restrictive SBS was going to be we would have never purchased it 2 years ago.
Thanks in advance.
Craig
We already have licensing for Server 2003 R2 and do not want to go down the expensive Microsoft transition pack road. My question is what is the best method to get Active Directory moved over if possible to the 2003 R2 Server? We will be naming the 2003 R2 Server the same name as the old SBS 2003 Server and use the same IP address also. We can shut down the entire network for a period of time to reformat the hard drive on the SBS 2003 Server and install Server 2003 R2 on the same piece of hardware.
Any help with this situation would be appreciated. If I would have know how restrictive SBS was going to be we would have never purchased it 2 years ago.
Thanks in advance.
Craig