Re: Migrating from one 2003 Server to another.

In news:367e33b2-9fc6-4e59-a14b-,
<>, posted the following:
> Looking at using FSMT v1.1 to move from one server 2003 box to
> another. Basically we're upgrading the hardware for our main file
> server and want to keep things transparent to the end users.
>
> Rename source server to server-old. Rename new server to the old
> servers name. Then fire up FSMT and copy the data/security descriptors
> over.
>
> I am not sure if the DFS role can be hosted by the destination/new
> server or not.
>
> Does anyone have any insight or a link to a migration paper or
> anything?

You are basically describing a swing migration. Take a look at this...

SBSmigration.com - How Swing Migration WorksSwing Migration is a process to
accomplish either a version upgrade or server
www.sbsmigration.com/pages/64/

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