Server 2003 STD to SBS2011 New hardware.

 

I am very excited to have found this software and this forum.

 

I have read the forum posts for the last two years, and I have read the manual. I am ready to move forward, but with limited time to be successful, I want to make sure I have a clear understanding of how this should go. One thing I did notice in a few threads was that it is important to join the PC to the new SBS domain before anything else.

 

I currently have Windows XP Pro PCs joined to a Windows Server 2003 Standard domain called Church.Local

 

I have installed and completed the basic setup of the new Windows Server SBS 2011 STD.

I have not visited any PC yet, so they are up and running on the old domain.

 

 

Here is what I beleive to be the process:

 

1) Install User Profile Wizard on new Server and run the wizard to create the config file.

2) Create all domain user accounts on new SBS 2011 Server

2) Turn off old server

3) Visit each workstation and login in as an administrator and run http://sbs2011_server/connect

4) Reboot PC and and log into new domain as administrator

5) Run User Profile Wizard from a USB stick at each PC

6) Instruct UPW to connect the User.OldDomain profile to the new User.NewDomain account

7) Reboot and log in as User.NewDomain

8) Turn OldServer back on and move any rogue user files from the old server to the user's directory on the new server

 

 

Is this it? Surely I am missing something important????

 

 

Thanks,

Jason

 

Thanks.