My challenge is to migrate from a old SBSe 2011 server platform used in a heavy AutoCAD (LOB) environment, where most every AutoCAD project has large numbers of embedded UNC server-based file references.
In the past, I used Jeff Middleton's Swing Migration, which used a temporary secondary domain controller to transfer Active Directory from the SBS server and then used a THIRD (final target) server running then then-latest version of Windows Server Standard bearing the original SBSe server's name.
My goal is to migrate the SBSe 2011 SYSTEM (Drive C: with Windows, AD, DNS, Redirected folders, etc.) and its DATA (Drive D: with LOB AutoCAD Files, Redir Folders, etc.) to a WSS 2019 VM under Hyper-V on a modern physical platform. I must respect and preserve data file pathing for a terabyte of LOB files!
Looking forward to your insightful response!
Hello Danne,
There is no need anymore to do a swing migration as Exchange Server is out of the scope. In our scenario you can migrate everything to the new DC and rename the new DC to get the old Hostname, see How to rename a domain controller after you migrated it, keep the old hostname