Netdom Tool Windows Server 2003' title='Netdom Tool Windows Server 2003' />Migrate SBS 2. Standard to Windows Server 2. March 2. 8, 2. 01. Robert Pearman. Your trusty old SBS 2. It had a good run. It probably still works but you cant get the parts, and the cloud is so appealing and for whatever reason you have, you are putting in a new on premises DC. Hey, you dont have to justify it to me. Chances are you shipped Exchange off to the cloud long ago, your clients never really got Share. Point and SQL was just used by the backup software and WSUS. The only thing we want to migrate is Active Directory and File Print services. By PDC, do you mean the PDC Emulator role or, possibly, looking to figure out which DC is Global Catalog masterreplica And which versions of Windows 2003, 2008. Irradiance Map Viewer. Me again,Still got some teething issues with this sbs 20032011 migration. I cant apply my folder redirection and drive mapping GPOs because there are issues. With the end of life of Windows 2003, Windows 2003 domain controllers DCs need to be updated to Windows Server 2008, 2012 or 2016. As a result, any domain. Detailed instructions on how to use the 2 methods to repair windows cannot connect to the domain errors. Netdom Tool Windows Server 2003' title='Netdom Tool Windows Server 2003' />Active Directory AD is typically one of the key network services in an organization. Without it, everything comes to a grinding halt. With this in mind, its. Moving to 2. 01. 6 makes a lot of sense, even if it is not for the seven year slog many of us are used to with our client servers. It is an elegant OS for a less Civilised time. R2. Many of our SMB clients will have skipped over 2. R2, in fact I am just finishing up my last SBS 2. That client has 2. They wanted an on premises solution. Now that they have Server 2. Azure AD even if they dont know they want them yet. Thats enough rambling. Lets migrate. In my lab examples I have a Single SBS 2. Standard DC, and a Server 2. Fl Studio 10 Morphine Crack Cocaine. Hyper V Server, which will host a 2. DC and a 2. 01. 6 File Print Server. Prep SBS 2. 01. 1The secret to any migration is preparation. In that vein we need to spend a little time checking our 2. First thing we are going to do is a System State backup. I have attached a 1. USB Hard Drive just for this backup. Open an Elevated Command Prompt window on your 2. When prompted select Y to continue the backup. On my lab system it took about an hour to complete. Now we have this, we can go ahead and make system changes and not worry too much about not being able to roll back. Of course this should be a supplement to your already robust backup regime. Next we look at DNS. Open up the DNS Manager and find your internal domain name. We want to make sure we have no left overs from any previous SBS Servers or Domain Controllers. Go to the properties of your zone, and click on the Name Servers tab. Well this is embarrassing isnt it, apparently I did have another server on this network at some point. Long since forgotten. If you find anything here that does not belong, select the server in question then click the remove button. Go through every folder in the zone to make sure there are no references to servers that do not belong. Pay special attention here and dont get click happy, because there will be multiple entries for the SBS 2. Repeat the process for the zone named msdcs,yourdomain. Next we can run everyones favourite AD Test tool, DCDiag. CMD window, enter dcdiag e v f dcdiag. Now we need to review the log. Of course I cannot review your log for you, so this next step is all on you. Chances are, in a single domain controller environment you wont have any major problems. There is plenty of information out there to solve most things, including the dreaded Journal Wrap. We can also run a quick netdom command to check the current FSMO role holders, this is unlikely to show up anything you didnt already know, because SBS would have been complaining wildly about it if there was a problem. Do you know what functional level your domain and forest are on If you dont have the Active. Directory Power. Shell Module installed, you should install it right now. In SBS 2. 01. 1 the default is 2. Forest, and 2. 00. Domain mode. For the next process we need to raise up to 2. If you have old 2. DCs, now is the time to destroy them. In an elevated Power. Shell, run the following import module activedirectory. Mode. get addomain. Mode. In my environment I had already raised the Domain functional level to make use of Fine Grained Password Policies. Now I am going to upgrade both forest and domain to 2. R2. current. Forest get adforest. Domain get addomain. Next we can migrate SYSVOL replication from FRS to DFSR which is nicely explained here. The process consists of running a few commands, and waiting for them to finish, which is my kind of work This should return that the migration has yet to begin. Proceed as follows dfsrmig setglobalstate 1. Then wait a minute or two and run dfsrmig getglobalstate. This should return that Step 1 has succeeded and the DFSR Globalstate is prepared. Proceed to run step 2. Again waiting for this to arrive in the succeeded state. We can then run a new command to check the status of the migration. With any luck you will see that migration has reached a consistent state on all Domain Controllers which in my environment is great because I only have the one DC. The final command is dfsrmig setglobalstate 3. This completes our prep on our SBS Server. In summary we have cleaned up DNS of any values pointing to old servers. We have updated our domain functional level, and migrated NTFRS to DFS R. You can perform another System State Backup at this point if you wish. Install Server 2. Next, install your Windows Server 2. Hyper V Server. Create a new Guest machine to serve as your Server 2. DC, if you are not familiar with 2. I would suggest sticking to the Desktop Experience version. When you get to Server Manager of your Server. DC Box. go to local server, enable Remote Desktop. Next open an Elevated Power. Shell window. Enter the following to set your new servers IP Statically current. IP get net. IPConfiguration. New Net. IPAddress interface. Index current. IP. Interface. Index IPAddress current. IP. IPv. 4Address. IPAddress Prefix. Length current. IP. IPAddress. Prefix. Length Default. Gateway current. IP. IPv. 4Default. Gateway. Next. Hop. Set DNSClient. Server. Address interface. Index current. IP. Interface. Index Server. Addresses current. IP. DNSServer. server. Addresses. end. This will take whatever IP was issued to it via DHCP and convert it to a Static IP. If you run this command over RDP you will lose your connection temporarily, so i reccomend you run this from a direct VM Connection on the Hyper V Server. If you would prefer to manually set the IP of your Server, then do that. Next we can rename our Server Rename Computer Server. DC0. After we restart the server we can install some roles and features. From an Elevated Power. Shell Window Add Windows. Feature AD Domain Services,DHCP,DNS,FS DFS Name. Space,FS DFS Replication include. All. Sub. Feature Include. Management. Tools. Next we can promote our Server. Domain Read Host Prompt Enter your internal domain name. Get Credential Message Enter Domain Administrator Credentials. Install ADDSDomain. Controller No. Global. Catalog false Create. Dns. Delegation false Critical. Replication. Only false Database. Path C WindowsNTDS Domain. Name current. Domain Install. Dns true Log. Path C WindowsNTDS No. Reboot. On. Completion true Sysvol. Path C WindowsSYSVOL credential cred Force true Confirm false Safe. Mode. Administrator. Password Convert. To Secure. String nt. ADRSM0de. Pssword As. Plain. Text ForceThis will prompt you to enter your internal domain name, and your domain admin credentials. Of course, with our expert preparation, the install will succeed and you will be prompted to reboot your server. Logon as the Domain Admin. Open an Elevated Power. Shell window. Now we can configure DNS Scavenging and a Reverse Lookup Zone if needed, and copy DNS forwarders from the SBS 2. Get Net. IPAddress Address. Family IPv. 4 select. A ipv. 40. IPAddress. Mask ipv. 40. Prefix. Length. ip. Net ipv. IPAddress0. Split. Net ip. Net0. ip.