Migrate computers to SBS03 by Chip
Chip
Mon Dec 01 18:18:46 CST 2003
I figured this out!
It definitely has to do with a DNS naming issue. Here's
the deal...
The migration documentation says to have your users
LOGOFF their machines, but says nothing about NOT
powering them off. If you power up the PC after the new
SBS03 server has its DHCP service running, the PC gets a
new IP address with a new DNS suffix. In the IP config
settings, what was office-1.olddomain.local is now office-
1.newdomain.local...even though the computer hasn't been
added to the new domain yet. The SBS03 box has a DNS
forwarder enabled to point to the old SBS00 box for
anything labeled *.olddomain.local, and the DNS on the
old SBS00 box still has the old IP address listed...thus,
no connection and the RPC server error from the ADMT tool.
To fix it, I had to do this:
1. Assign a static IP to each client PC.
2. Go into the DNS settings on each client and add
newdomain.local under "Append DNS suffix" and "DNS suffix
for this connection"
3. On the old SBS00 box, edit the DNS for each client
computer to reflect the static IP address assigned to
each client PC.
4. Wait for about ten to fifteen minutes for the DNS
records to update.
5. From the old SBS00 box, try to ping the client PC's
using the FQ domain name. i.e.: office-
1.olddomain.local If you get a reply, you're in
business! If not, wait longer because the DNS probably
hasn't updated completely. Note: be sure to test ping
all your client PC's before proceeding!
6. NOW you should be able to run the ADMT Migrate
Computers Wizard from the new SBS03 box.
I've seen this question several times on this board,
hopefully this will help.
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to migrate 5 Win XP computers from my SBS2000
>server to my new SBS2003 server. The users and groups
>transferred no problem. The computers are all erroring
>out saying "RPC server is unavailable". The dispatch
log
>says "The machine might be down or its Server, Netlogon
>service might not be started. rc=1722 The RPC server is
>unavailable." I have verified all 5 machines are up and
>running, on the network, have an IP address, Netlogon
and
>Server services are running, AntiVirus is disabled.
From
>the destination server, I'm able to type in
>\\computerName\Admin$ and view files with no problem.
Any
>ideas?
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