Good day!
We are looking to move two smaller clients from SBS2008 and sbs2011 to Server 2016 Standard. In both cases there are five or less computers and users so we are ok with creating new users and joining the computers to the new domain (local profiles will be lost). Any suggestions migrating one local domain user profile to a new domain users profile appreciated!
In both cases we will setup Server 2016 Hyper-V host on the new hardware. Each will have one VM which will also be Server 2016 Standard.
In preparation for the move we have setup one of the new servers and installed Active Directory/DNS, DHCP and the Server Essentials Role on the VM.
Our thought is the new Hyper-V/DC Server would have a unique IP addresses and therefore we could install the new hardware onto the network onsite in order to move LOB and company/user data from their old server onto the new server over the network (remotely).
After thinking about this further there would be a problem with two DHCP servers so we could shut down Server 2016's DHCP server until ready to shut down the old server.
The old server name is: server
The new server name is: WS2016
The old domain is: PublicName.local
The new domain is: ad.PublicName.com
With the above in mind; Does this sound like a feasable option such that we can connect the new server to the network with the old SBS server to allow transferring of data and once done shut down the old SBS server, enable DHCP on the new server and proceed with joining the workstations to the new domain?
Any suggestions, concerns or general advice appreciated!!
Gerry