SBS2000 to SBS2003 computer migration

[gurner]

I had just a quick question, as i dont often deal with SBS, but have had one recently and may do in the future.

Can i ask what is the best way to migrate the computers from a 2k sbs to a 2k3 sbs?

I quite successfully migrated users and mailboxes, files and so on from one to the other using ADMTv3 and Robocopy etc.

But the computer migration went very wrong, i wish it was as simple as a std or ent migration where its moving it via trusts etc but alas no.

What i found was that as you had 2 domains, with sufficiently different NetBIOS domain names, and during the user migrations while running the ADMT on the destination server you supply credentials for the source domain and it uses them in the app

then when trying the computer migration, after the first few steps, it launches that other application, that try's to push an agent to the computer. Everytime it failed to start the agent move, complaining about insufficient permissions to the client.

i guess as it was running as the destination admin account? (it never asked for the source domain account credentials)

i tried adding the desination admin account to a local security policy for the pcs, or local user accounts, or the domain policy or OU, etc but couldn't as there is no trust realm.

the time i had to do the migration soon started to be a concern so i opted for a straight addition to the new domain manually on each pc, manually migrating profile settings etc.

Can i ask, is there a better way of doing this or have i missed something obvious?

cheers

Gurner

 

[pagy]

Swing migration is what you are after;

http://www.sbsmigration.com/

Paul
MCSE


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Scott Adams

 

[gurner]

i've heard of a swing migration a few times, and it looks cool (i've heard it works very well) but for the infrequency of how many sbs migration we get the bean counters cant justify it.

I was just hoping if anyone had come across a more generic way of migrating work stations.

Cheers

Gurner