On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:14:10 -0900, Tim Jordan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > I'm doing a server replacment this weekend. It's a small network using > SBS 2000 with about 15 users. > I plan to pull the hard drives and install new drives then do a clean > install of SBS 2003. > > My plan is to export the Public Folders and users email to .pst files > and then import them back in when the new server is up and all accounts > have been created. > > Going from workstation to workstation will be very time consuming. Will > Exmerge help in my scenario? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/upgrade/default.mspx http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=16414 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/overview/generalfaq.mspx#EGBAA > Bonus question: > The guys I work for have ghosted all the workstations at our client site > and did not change the SID on the workstations before joining to domain. > The domain controller (currently running Samba) will be replaced at this > site with SBS 2003. What would be the best way to join the existing > workstations to the new domain without encountering a conflict with > duplicate computer SIDs? You could change the SID's: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtml Or downlod sysprep from Microsoft. ...D