migrate server over VPN 1

[lisat76]

I have a domain with a vpn connection from one site to the other.
We have a new server at our new location and want to make that our DC and remove the old small business server from the other location. Will I be able to do the migration over the VPN or will i have to go on site with the new server to do the migration?

Thanks

 

[ShackDaddy]

It will be easiest if the VPN is established between two firewall devices and not between the two servers.

You would add the new server to the remote network and then you could remotely connect to it and join it to the domain, if you haven't done so already. Then you could, while connecting via terminal session, run dcpromo on the new server to make it a DC.

Once you have moved all file shares and are prepared to remove the SBS server from the network (yes, power it down at this point and don't bring it back online ever again in the same subnet), there will be some work for you to do to clean the AD up. You'll want to sieze the FSMO roles on the new server using the NTDSUtil tool.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

Do a "netdom query fsmo" to verify the holder of the roles. Your new server should own all of them.

Then you'll need to set the new server as a Global Catalog server. Next you'll need to clean up the AD a bit:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498/en-us

Your best tool for figuring out if you've done a good job at this point will be dcdiag. Do a "dcdiag /c" from the new server after you've completed the steps above and see if there are any references to the old server.



Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[technome]

SBS migration...
Transferring the roles would be easier then seizing. You can connect two SBS server on the same system for 7 days.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...ad4e-4227-b20e-97a716ed7c861033.mspx?mfr=true

Question is how are you going to transfer any appreciable amount of data over the VPN (data shares), unless you have massive bandwidth and a super fast VPN co-processor?
You could build the new SBS, install the needed programs, make sure they work, then backup the data on the old server on a Friday night, ship it at a ridiculous over night shipping rate to the new server's home, restore data, promote the new server, transfer the roles, demote the old server, ready by Monday morning with great stress( sounds like the stuff nightmares are made though).

Sound like you would be better off going to the site of the old server. Take a week to do it, starting on Mondays (or previous Saturday), get all the programs setup, restor data etc on new machine, test, on Friday of the week, backup the latest data on old server, restore to new server, take asuper fast route back to the new site over the weekend.

Then again you could get an imaging program such as Acronis, with it's bare metal restore module (about $1000) to create an image saved to a hard drive which could be restored to different hardware (new server), over night the image.

Glad I will be missing the party.

Good luck

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[lisat76]

Then again you could get an imaging program such as Acronis, with it's bare metal restore module (about $1000) to create an image saved to a hard drive which could be restored to different hardware (new server), over night the image."

I have imagecast and self image can i use either of them and create an image then just do a repair on the new server so it detects the new hardware?

no i do not have a mass amount of data to transfer over

 

[technome]

I have imagecast and self image can i use either of them and create an image then just do a repair on the new server so it detects the new hardware?
Never used either. I would assume you would have to reset the SID and rejoin all the machines to the new server. Where are the sites located ?


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Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[lisat76]

the sites are close together within 10 miles it's just getting the time to take one server to the other site etc. IT would be more convient if we could do it my vpn or create an image

 

[technome]

For ten miles, give me a break.


........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm