As I mentioned in my last post I'm working on my first SBS 2008 install, it is a migration from a 5 year old SBS 2003 install I have maintained. I thought I had maintained it fairly well, but it turns out I missed a few major updates. I'm not really sure how but some service packs were not installed on components.
The Best Practices Analyzer is a tool that is used in the migration to determine the overall health of the "source" Small Business Server prior to migration. You can run it any time, and it will produce useful results, with instructions to fix the discovered issues.
The migration guide, which showed me where all these problems are is quite comprehensive. It provides for a variety of scenarios and alternative approaches to many instructions which might be dicey for one reason or another.
Once thing they didn't mention, is what to do if you can't insert DVD #1 into the source server because the source server has no DVD drive! Which is funny, because 5 years ago when I installed Small Business Server 2003, they knew this might be the case, and included both CDs and a DVD.
Anyway I copied the tools directory from the DVD onto a CD. A search of Google reveals it may be possible to mount the DVD via a network share and copy the files needed to update the AD to the server to run.
And by the way, don't tell Microsoft, but I was able to normally install CentOS 5 running in a Hyper-V VM on a legacy network adapter.
Now to figure out this pesky no USB for the migration answer file thing.
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