Transition pack? Is it too late?

[WexNet]

Hi,
we have an SBS 2003 server.
We added a seperate Windows 2008 Domain Controler, and also a seperate
Exchange 2007 Server on a Server 2008 VM.

We are getting licensing errors on the SBS 2003 box; we are up to our 75
user limit.
Is it too late to run the transition pack? Should this have been ran
originally?

[Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]]

what would be the point of the transition pack

You have a 2008 DC and Exchange 2007.   Move everything (mailboxes, data and so on)over. Make the 2008 DC a Global Catalog Server, DNS, DHCP and so on.  Ensure replication completes and shut down the SBS server.  There will be some AD and DNS clean up to do.

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"WexNet" <Wex...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A4937DA3-360E-41AE...@microsoft.com...

[Charlie Russel - MVP]

Well, one reason would be to recover the licenses, assuming they are needed.
And he could then run the existing SBS box as an ongoing F/P/SharePoint box.

The simple answer to the OPs question is that no, it's not too late. The
more complex answer that you should carefully examime whether it makes
financial and business sense to do the transition, or if you're better off
just sucking any important data off the old SBS server, including all the
steps you've listed, and then reformatting the disks on it and doing
whatever one does with an old 32-bit server.

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"Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]" <crisnos...@cpunospamservices.net> wrote in
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[Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]]

WHS!

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <Cha...@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in message
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[Charlie Russel - MVP]

Oh, I agree whole heartedly. Or, turn it into an iSCSI server. :)

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"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdi...@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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[SuperGumby [SBS MVP]]

DO BOTH :-)

either a server OS and Virtual Server, or maybe install StarWind iSCSI to
WHS running on the real hardware.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <Cha...@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in message

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[Charlie Russel - MVP]

I've never been willing to risk running StarWind against WHS's DE. Somehow
it just seemed like a bad idea. Don't get me wrong, I love them both. But
separately, not together

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"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <n...@your.nellie> wrote in message
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[SuperGumby [SBS MVP]]

any sort of passthrough giving direct access to the HDD's on WHS would seem
to be a bad idea but a 'file as target' style would seem to be OK.

Ya know me though Charlie, I'd more likely vitualise it. WHS in a VM and,
say, freeNAS also.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <Cha...@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in message

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[Charlie Russel - MVP]

WHS is just about the only thing I don't virtualize here. Primarily because
it's my primary backup solution, and the one box I'd grab on my way out the
door (and sized accordingly.)

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Charlie.
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