Migrating from 2000 to 2003 on new hardware

[lowester]

Hi, we are going to be migrating our file and print server that is on a windows 2000 server maching to a new windows 2003 server machine. Im not exactly sure where to begin and was wondering is someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks

 

[itsp1965]

When we had to perform migrations to new hardware/OS we did the following;

1. Install the hardware and new OS, apply patches, antivirus, etc (this is a given)
2. Add the new server to the domain
3. Create a batch file based on the robocopy command to create a preliminary copy files from one server to another. (maintaining the file/folder ACLs) This may not be useful to you if you have many shares since you will need to re-create shares, otherwise you can use scopy.
4. Migrate your printing environment using the MS Printmig tool
5. When you are ready to cut over, Have users logout, start another robocopy/scopy session to copy new and updated files
6. Modify your logon script to point your users to the new servers

This is it in a nutshell (I may have missed something) others can chime in with any steps that may have been missed.

Hope this helps.

 

[lowester]

Thanks! this will definately be helpful.