Tag: Migrations

Migrate a Microsoft Exchange organization 2003 o Exchange 2000 to Microsoft Exchange 2007

Well, In this document we will see what is the migration process of an environment with Microsoft Exchange mail service 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2007. We must bear in mind that it is not possible to perform the migration on the Exchange server 2003 in situ, if not we must, first prepare the Active Directory schema to support an Exchange 2007, then we will perform the Exchange installation 2007 on another server, once the installation is complete, we will replicate the public folders and migrate the Exchange server mailboxes 2003 to the Exchange 2007. We will finally uninstall the Exchange 2003 of our organization.

Migrate the five roles between domain controllers and forcing in case of failure

To migrate roles between different domain controllers, for example from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003, or a Windows 2003 to another 2003… or simply to distribute the load among the DCs. It doesn't matter in which the process is carried out. It can be done in two ways, Mediate GUI, or by commands. And there is a third way that would be aggressive in case the Active Directory does not work correctly and we must force the transfer of the functions – HERE.

Change DNS servers on the stations using a script

This is useful when we are performing a server migration, in the event that we are going to change the IP address DNS servers or the server DNS server, we must change its DNS servers in all positions. The posts may be configured with a dynamic IP address so the change is very simple and we will change it only on the DHCP server. But.. What happens if our posts have a fixed IP address? That we should change the 'Preferred DNS Server'’ and the 'Alternate DNS Server'’ or manually or with the help of a simple script that we can put in the login of the posts through a GPO.

Migrate DHCP Server to Another Server with DHCPexim

This procedure explains how to move the DB from our DHCP to another server, It doesn't matter the S.O. of origin, how if we migrate from NT4 to NT4, NT4 to 2003, a 2000, of 2003 to 2003… The first thing we will need is the DHCPexim, The tool that migrates, download from AKI. And we start installing it on the server from which we want to migrate the DHCP service, then once exported to a text file we will install the DHCPexim on the destination server to import that file, More details: