Q&A: Migrating to SBS 2008 – Preparation

Question: Note on DHCP: The exclusions have to be migrated, too.
Answer: Good point. Any printer exclusions need to be migrated as well

Question: I have heard it recommended that we also run the EBS prep tool.
What is your opinion on that?
Answer: Yes use that too as it checks the health of the AD

Question: Why disable the internal NIC and not the external NIC? That is
how we have done it and haven’t had any problems.
Answer: I’ll have to clarify that with Amy. It could be the way her
networks are set up

Question: The server I inherited has issues with Sharepoint but customer
doesn’t use it. Can’t install sql patch. Issue?
Answer: If you don’t need Sharepoint you can not migrate it

Question: We normally flatten SBS when migrating to a new version to
make sure we don’t migrate problems over. Is there a best practice
method you recommend?
Answer: Export out pst, export out profiles, copy the n2k file that has
the autocorrect

Question: Are you going to post a handout of this presentation?
Answer: Yes it will be on the blog

Question: What tools to you recomend for cleaning up AD
Answer: The ebs prep tool will give you good guidance, adsiedit is one

Question: As a follow-up on the removal of the ISA client. Do we also
have to manually change the IE proxy settings? Have you found any good
methods for automating any of this?
Answer: I think I’ve seen on Chad Gross’s blog a group policy push
change of this.

Question: What is the KB article for removing a domain controller?
Answer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498 see if that’s it

Question:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755937(WS.10).aspx another link
Answer: there’s another resource at Petri’s url as well

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