SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:58:17 GMT

Dominic,

Movement of data should not be that slow. Assuming that the network and quotas are good I would contact MS support to see how / if they can help you.

Thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Dominic Fernandez — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:28:23 GMT

Hi guys,

I have reached the end of my 21 day grace period, but my exchange public folder replication is not complete. It is very slow. It copied 900 MB fairly quickly and since then it has been crawling and reached 1.1Gb with another 500Mb to go. I have completed all other requirements for the migration. Is there anyway this can replication can be forced to complete?

Can I run the finish migration in the migration wizard before this public folder migration is comlpete.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Dominic

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re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:21:42 GMT

Dan,

Users should be able to log on any time through the migration and e-mail should continue to arrive and be accessed except when the e-mail migration is taking place.

Thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

dan — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:30:01 GMT

Hello,

We are about to start migrating from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008. Right after 2008 is installed what are the necessary steps to take right after installing 2008 to make sure users can login.

If we stop after installing (and dhcp etc is migrated) will the users be able to login and access their exchange 2003 mailboxes so that we have time to migrate the rest when its convenient for us?

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Ethernet Over Copper — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:02:15 GMT

I haven't had any issues yet.

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:26:06 GMT

Chris,

from the destination server, try net use <oldservername> /user:<username> <password> where the three items in <> are replaced by the text from your answerfile. If you can diagnose this, then you should fix things - you may find there is a DNS name issue, for example.

Thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Chris — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:00:24 GMT

Just trying to do a migration on site...

Destination server keeps giving out verify that the domain name and credentials are correct and then try again...

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

ADTRAN Ethernet Over Copper — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:01:52 GMT

Haven't seen much about this lately.

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Matthew — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:13:05 GMT

Did anyone find the fix for BPA error:

There are no DNS name server (NS) resource records in the _msdcs sub-domain in the forward lookup zone for Windows SBS 2008

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:49:06 GMT

Cat,

Have the backups been running? By the logs, I presume that you mean the Exchange logs which only get purged when a successful backup is run if I remember.

The other thing to check that can "eat" disk is the shadow copy storage. You can check this with "vssadmin list shadowstorage" in an elevated command prompt.

Thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:46:53 GMT

Stuart,

DC Promo issue is nearly always a networking issue. Can the two servers see eachother and have you double checked the info inthe answerfile for migration?

thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Cat — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:29:37 GMT

Hello David,

I wonder if you have heard of disappearing disk space with SBS 2008?

We migrated from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 nearly two years ago, and have always had an issue with disappearing disk space. Our IT guy investigated and found that the event log files are just stacking up, and never get automatically deleted.

We are currently running on 1.39GB free space...

Six months ago, our IT guy completely re-installed the software, as prior to this we had upgrade after upgrade, so he was hoping the latest version would fix the issue, but as of today, it's still a problem. He can fix it, but it's never a permanent fix, and just recurs after a few days... Any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance for any help you can give.

Cat

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Stuart — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:46:32 GMT

Having the DC_Promo failed issue too. Have tried the Group Policy update but still getting the same thing. There seems to be no definitive answer to this problem although many people seem to have it. I am running it in Hyper-V

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:54:45 GMT

OK,

so I downloaded www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx, installed in the detault directory and then let it run.

I selected the folder where I had also downloaded Exchange 2007 SP2 (link is on the downloads page above) and extracted it to. The SP2 download extracts to a folder of your choice.

click next a few times in the tool, then run the Exchange setup which is automattically started. Go through the install process, then close the installer. Note the install process takes a little while.

I was then back at the SBS install tool, pressed next and it finished up.

I hope that helps

David

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Bill — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:21:50 GMT

Hi David,

Thank you for your reply, based on the 64bit Architecture i downloaded the SP2 for Exchange 2007, also i did donwload the tool to help the installation of SP2 on SBS 2008. when i run the tool it installs seccuessfully and in next stage it asks me to specify the folder where the SP2 for Exchange is located. despite providing the correct location it still does only give me option to select the folder and does not recognize or show me the file which i donwloaded from Microsoft website. could you please let me know what i am doing wrong?

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:18 GMT

Bill,

you need to update your exchange installation. Look at www.microsoft.com/.../results.aspx and you will see Exchange Service Packs (install SP2) and also the roll-ups. Grab the latest ones of those and Exchange should resolve the issues you are seeing.

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Bill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:33:39 GMT

Hi Darren,

for me migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 20098 went well and only problem my clients are facing that even though they are connected with the network using VPN but after certain time MS Outlook started asking for password on all the system which are using 3g card and VPN to connect to the server.

can you guys please help me to sort out this issue.

server is now 2008 SBS edition, Cllient Computers have windows XP Pro and Vista Business with few of them are using MS Outlook 2003 and rest using Office 2007.

A prompt reply to sort out this issue will b really appreciate.

Many Thank

Bill

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Darren(UK) — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:53:46 GMT

Just completed my first Migratation from SBS2003 to SBS2008 using Dave's book and completed the whole thing in about 2 days (using the evenings to copy e-mails and data files. Fanatastic book by the way, although some steps seem to have changed order in the migration tasks.

Just a few issues to resolve (outlook 2007 asking for password everytime(now solved), SBS Console update services giving me a error and a Backup Exec 12.5 problem (now solved)).

Public Folders did take a long time to replicate accross (2 days).

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:59:20 GMT

@Morgan,

Anything is possible, however you need to think about the time it will take to move all the data over what would be quite a high latency network. Migrating e-mail might be particualrly time consuming.

The SBS 2008 and SBS 2003 systems will need to think of themselves as being on the same physical network (DNS, DHCP, IP subnet etc).

Thanks

David

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Morgan in Seattle — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:47:57 GMT

Has anybody ever migrated sbs 2003 to Sbs 2008 over a WAN link? My client just aquired a company and they have sbs 2003. My client would like to migrate to sbs 2008 with a new server in Seattle but the old sbs 2003 box is in Denver where they have a T1. My client has a 10Mbit Ethernet over copper circuit. If we create a VPN with our firewalls, would it be possible to migrate to sbs 2008.

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Clint — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:10:28 GMT

I got my answer..

It was quite a ridiculous fix! I had completed the migration successfully and all the DNS was setup properly as well. I was scratching my head on this one for a while. then it occurred to me, I had not rebooted the source server. I was never prompted to and honestly I was so elated that the initial SBS 2008 migration finally completed I was focusing on the destination server issues and ignoring the source server.

The Migration instructions did not specify that the source server needed to be rebooted. Well I rebooted the source server and low and behold all of the issues went away. I was able to replicate the Public Folders, Move Mailboxes and the AD, replication and group policy errors in event log stopped.

Sometimes the solution to a seemingly complex problem is quite simple.

Reboot.

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

Clint — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:15:09 GMT

@Rich and @David

I am having the same issue Rich is having, nothing in the Move Public folder replicas server pull down. If either of you get an answer to this issue please let me know. Reply back here... I don't think it is a DNS issue but could be wrong. I have DNS on both the old SBS2003 and SBS 2008 both have the IP of each other in them and both have the name servers referenced in the forward lookup zones. Still nothing in the pull down... This is frustrating...

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:20:20 GMT

@Rich,

It sounds like DNS trouble - check that the SBS 2008 has DNS installed and that the domain is in there. If not, check the DNS settings on SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 and ensure that the DNS points to the Server IP address.

Thanks

David

re: SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration thoughts and issues

David Overton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:16:48 GMT

WL - I'm glad it worked out pretty smoothly. It would be great to know areas that caused problems and how long each step actually took (domain, files, e-mail and other stuff)

Thanks

David