SBS 2003 and migrating to Exchange 2007 Part 2

Well the first thing I did was run the SBS BPA on the SBS 2003 server. This machine has had issues in the past, a past crash and a past crash and restore so I run the SBS BPA on the server and it was actually pretty clean. One thing I did was look at the Event logs and got all the logs cleared up that related to AD and the server. Had some old stale DC info in DNS and got that cleared up and also got the domain and forest raised in functional level to 2003. Brought in the new servers to the domain and DCPromoed the the 2 DC’s. One is a temp DC and the reason of this is Exchange 2007.

I did some research and found anything releated to bringing in the Exchange 2007 to a SBS2003 domain and what I found was if you bring it in on a DC things goes pretty smoothly so we will find out and I will let you know how that works out for me. Once I have the mail moved to the temp server and squared away we will move the mail again to the member server it will reside on. Then I have the SQL 2005 Server to install and a File Server and then we also plan on running a 2008 server running HyperV and TS gateway and probably 3 or 4 servers running Virtual. This is a big project and I should get some good insite on how to split out the SBS 2003 Server. Well more as I go and now I have to go wrap the many presents I purchased for family.

Til Later just Roger