Thanks, Susan. I imagine if we can establish the trust after applying the transition pack, we'll be good to go.
Funny about that "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD." Warning. Had the same warning and ending experience when installing w2k3 R2/RC. Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services IT | Information Technology Agilent Technologies (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com ---------------------------------------------- "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" - Anthony, in Julius Caesar III i. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:40 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Transition Pack installation experience? And the documentation is on this side too is a bit sparse. In our SBS MVP ranks we've had one MVP go through it... below are his comments when we asked him to go over the experience... as most folks post in the SBS newsgroup and say "we're applying this" and we never hear back from them...they get sucked into this blackhole never to post again.... ------------------------------------------------------------ OK, here's what I found. Installed the Transition pack on SBS SP1 Premium (running SQL but not ISA). It churned for a while and rebooted twice. Note that you are warned all over the place that you'll have to reinstall all service packs after installing the transition pack. Towards the end of the install, I get a message box "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD. Warning: If you decide to delete the newer version of Windows that is currently installed on your computer, the files and settings cannot be recovered. To exit, click Cancel. For more information, click Details. Clicking Details got me nowhere, so I clicked Cancel. I thought I was in trouble, and was ready to call PSS. I rebooted after clicking cancel, and much to my surprise, I get prompted that the transition pack was installed successfully. So now the box is in the "I think the transition pack is applied" state. I moved FSMO roles to another box without a problem (something you're only supposed to be able to do post transition pack). I moved Exchange and SQL each to their own box. I am also now running 2 DHCP servers in the environment, and the old SBS box seems to be stable. I'm not sure what else I can do to confirm that the transition pack is OK, but everything seems to be stable at this point. -------------------------------------- To add to that..... yes the transition pack was applied successfuly...the way you check is attempt to disable license logging serivce and sbscore services. If those two services will shut off and stay off, you don't have a SBS box anymore. In this "no longer a SBS box" state, Remote Web Workplace and all the SBS wizards still work, there are just no guarantees that future patches/service packs will break things. I imagine if all you wanted to do was sucking life out of it...you could have FSMO transferred the AD to a "normal" Windows 2003 box and sucked that over too. [you know the seize ntdsutil thingy] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have experience/recommendations for applying the SBS Transition > pack? We just got the software and the admin who received it says the > documentation is "sparse". (Feel free to jump in, Susan J) > > The situation is that a recent acquisition is running SBS and we need > to build a trust to their domain so that we can suck the life out of > it...I mean, so that we can transition users and resources to the > corporate domain. > > Thanks in advance, > > AL > > Al Maurer > Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services > IT | Information Technology > Agilent Technologies > (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 > http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com > ---------------------------------------------- > "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" - Anthony, in Julius > Caesar III i. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
