Archive for the 'SBS-2k3' Category

Day 6 - All Done

Monday, November 15th, 2004

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 […]

Day 5 — The Morning After

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

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 […]

Day 4 - Migration Day

Friday, November 12th, 2004

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.

Day 3 - Add additional Hard Drive

Monday, November 8th, 2004

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.

Day 3 - Call CDW

Monday, November 8th, 2004

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. […]

Day 2 - Installation Cont.

Friday, November 5th, 2004

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 […]

Day 1 — Installation

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

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.

Windows SBS 2003 Migration

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

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 […]