Day 5 — The Morning After

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Our network is officially running on Small Business Server 2003. Got home at 5am this morning. I was at the office for nearly 8 hours. For the most part, things went ok. The biggest snag we ran into was the Active Directory Migration Tool and the migrating of the client computers from one server to the new server.

Of course, on paper this seemed like an easy task, but what the “white papers” failed to mention was that you couldn’t migrate all the machines in one step. When we selected all of the machines to migrate only 3 of them (at the most) would actually do it. The rest would fail. Then we had to run the migration tool again and get a few more machines over, and so on. That process, alone, took the better part of 3-4 hours when it probably should have taken, at the most, 1 hour.

Anyway, needless to say, I’m a bit tired now. I might go into some more detail on Monday (count on it). But, for now, I need to finish getting my house ready for my youngest daughter’s birthday party. (This should be a breeze on 3 hours of sleep)

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5 thoughts on “Day 5 — The Morning After”

  1. Ouch, that must’ve sucked. But good work; there were certainly fewer things broken than I expected.

    BTW, I managed to finagle my way in today — yay for chained RDC instances — and got the VPN back up. I also made some other miscellaneous changes to DNS/DHCP.

  3. Glad to hear you made it through… although, maybe you didn’t make it through your daughter’s b-day on 3 hrs sleep, since we haven’t heard from you today! After reading your ordeal, I feel very fortunate that my company’s migration to Server 2k3 went as well as it did (especially since it was on my 2nd weekend of working there!)

  4. Actually, I think I did quite ok working on 3 hours of sleep. But I guess you would have to ask my wife about that. :) So where are you working these days? Maybe I’ll drop you an email so you don’t have to announce it here.

  5. Yes, he actually did okay, he didn’t totally die out until after we took her to dinner, so he made it most of the day. Then after dinner, we dragged him to Target, and he had to deal with 3 women at the store–so, all in all, I say he managed pretty well on 3.75 hours of sleep–he left out that last 45 minutes–maybe that’s what did it :)