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Re: Successful migration...so I thought?

aggiedan97 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:59:26 GMT

After running DCDIAG I received results with many 'passes' and expected exchange failures based on domain issues.

The only non-exchange error is NCSecDesc with a couple of context:

(1)

      Starting test: NCSecDesc
         Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn't have Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
         access rights for the naming context:DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=<domain name xxxx>,DC=local
         Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn't have Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
         access rights for the naming context:DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=<domain namexxxx>,DC=local
         ......................... <server name xxx> failed test NCSecDesc

(2) The second one is a system log failure which I believe is related to the previous DC rights.

Successful migration...so I thought?

aggiedan97 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:07:41 GMT

I completed the SBS 2003 to SBS 008 migration and operated successfully for 17 days...approaching the 21 day coexistence date for the 2003 and 2008 SBS servers. Everything has been working perfectly with minor issues that all have been quickly resolved.

In an effort to complete the migration I proceeded with the decomission steps just as instructed and the steps worked flawlessley. I was careful to not-check the checkbox that indicated this was the last domain controller...etc...

The SBS 2003 server rebooted and trouble. Instinctively I rebooted the SBS2008 server and now there are issue. Exchange is not functioning and "a suitable domain controller can not be found..."

HELP!

Migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 - AD Copy portion stalling...

aggiedan97 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:45:54 GMT

I have successfully followed every step of migration from the 'legacy' sbs2003 server (A) to the new sbs2008 server (B). Everything has been working almost exactly as you indicated.

After OS install, B has located the answer file on a USB drive and it has worked as described. There were almost half a dozen restarts on B until the progress bar got to about 15% across (actually about 1" across the screen out of 7" - 8".

The dialog with the progress bar is labeled 'Expanding and Installing Files'. About every 30 minutes a pop-up message appears describing how the AD copy (or maybe replication) is taking longer than expected... You may choose to continue to wait for this operation to complete or skip this step. Click Yes to continue to wait or No to skip...

I realize I have not typed this 100% exactly as it is described, but I can copy the exact verbage the next time it appears.

Total wait time thus far is 3:45 minutes and the progress bar has not moved and the previous described pop-up appears every 30 minutes or so. One would think if I was willing to wait previously that it wouldn't ask me again unless it is looping, failing or something that there is no alert for.

Any ideas or help would be tremendously appreciated.

Thanks,
AggieDan97