Well today was the first day back at the office since the migration. Really things went more smoothly then anticipated. There were 5 machines left over that still needed to migrate: 2 were laptops that were out of the office, 3 were machines that the Active Directory Migration Tool was unable to migrate. Basically with […]

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 […]

Well, today is “Migration Day”. The plan is to come in to the office sometime around 9pm tonight and get it done. I have all the materials I need, unlike last week when I discovered I had forgotten to purchase our additional CALs that we needed.
So, wish me luck.

Well I finally got my Hard Drive Carrier Assemblies from Dell and went to add them into my new server that I installed SBS on. I found out that you can’t add more drives to a RAID 5 array without re-initializing the array, which means reformatting. So basically I’m back to Day 1.
Woo Hoo.

Well things were going great Friday night. I got DHCP up and running all the computers on the network were getting their IP addresses from the new server. I started working through the “To Do List” and realized, I hadn’t yet purchased the additional CALs we needed to run this server on our network yet…
WHOOPS. […]

I came in this morning and completed the SBS 2k3 installation and installed Microsoft SQL Server on the machine. Now I have the “To Do List” to tackle, most of which I am not going to touch until tonight when I am ready for the actual Migration. That is when I expect some headaches, but […]

Well I’m into Disc 2 of the SBS 2k3 installation process… so far everything is going great. No surprises or snags, but then, I am just installing onto a brand new server, so what really could go wrong during this stage of the process…. Right? I’ll let you know when it is done.

So today I begin the process of migrating our Windows 2000 Server to Small Business Server 2003.
Boy am I looking forward to this.
I figure I could get a couple days of posting out of it and, who knows, logging it here may help someone else out in the future (unlikely). So for those posts […]