I have followed the Migration guide, and I still get this error message "The
server was not promoted to a domain controller." And of course the
installation wizard cannot deal with this, and I have to start the
installation all over again, trying something else. In fact, during one of
my install attempts, the source server recognized the Destination server as
being a DC within the domain. However, because the install cannot be
restarted, any and all work along the way is lost. I have had to delete the
partition and recreate it every time. How awful in 2010 that this type of
poor install still exists.

1. I have 1 NIC in the Source Server
2. I have successfully run the Migration Preparation Tool
3. I have successfully created an answer file, and the install uses it.

At this point I am wondering if it would just be easier to create a new
fresh install with a different domain, and then hopefully just migrate the
mailboxes from one domain to another. I have spent countless hours on this
already, and am beginning to wonder about the validity of this process. Has
anyone anywhere ever had a successfull migration?

Note: I have a 10.x.x.x IP address scheme, surely that can't matter.



Any ideas anyone???
--
Miles Gibson

These links may help:

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive...o-success.aspx

Common issues:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...b9?hl=en&pli=1

Susan's BLOG regarding her successful migration (many pages of posts):
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...px?PageIndex=1


Also, did you google your error message? Many ideas there:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en-G...CA362&ie=UTF-8

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...ups.google.com

--
Allan Williams




Miles wrote:

> I have followed the Migration guide, and I still get this error
> message "The server was not promoted to a domain controller." And of
> course the installation wizard cannot deal with this, and I have to
> start the installation all over again, trying something else. In
> fact, during one of my install attempts, the source server recognized
> the Destination server as being a DC within the domain. However,
> because the install cannot be restarted, any and all work along the
> way is lost. I have had to delete the partition and recreate it
> every time. How awful in 2010 that this type of poor install still
> exists.
>
> 1. I have 1 NIC in the Source Server
> 2. I have successfully run the Migration Preparation Tool
> 3. I have successfully created an answer file, and the install uses
> it.
>
> At this point I am wondering if it would just be easier to create a
> new fresh install with a different domain, and then hopefully just
> migrate the mailboxes from one domain to another. I have spent
> countless hours on this already, and am beginning to wonder about the
> validity of this process. Has anyone anywhere ever had a successfull
> migration?
>
> Note: I have a 10.x.x.x IP address scheme, surely that can't matter.
>
> Any ideas anyone???

Al Williams wrote:

> These links may help:
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive...o-success.aspx
>
> Common issues:
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...b9?hl=en&pli=1
>
> Susan's BLOG regarding her successful migration (many pages of posts):
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...px?PageIndex=1
>
>
> Also, did you google your error message? Many ideas there:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en-G...CA362&ie=UTF-8
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...ups.google.com
>
>

What he said. And I'm a 10.0.0.x as well.
What does the dcpromo log file on the SBS box say?

I've done a successful migration of an old and dirty 2k3, and using 10.x.x.x
IP address scheme, fwiw.

Mine went through first time, I'm pleased to say, so I don't have a lot of
insight into troubleshooting problems, however.

Taking a page from Dave Nickason:

Did you raise the domain functional level on the old server?

Did you run the BPA on the old server?

Perhaps other clues in this thread:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/.../msg02126.html


"Miles" <Miles@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:05BA6A93-05D0-4CE7-A180-71C531326C3F@newsgroup

> I have followed the Migration guide, and I still get this error message
> "The
> server was not promoted to a domain controller." And of course the
> installation wizard cannot deal with this, and I have to start the
> installation all over again, trying something else. In fact, during one
> of
> my install attempts, the source server recognized the Destination server
> as
> being a DC within the domain. However, because the install cannot be
> restarted, any and all work along the way is lost. I have had to delete
> the
> partition and recreate it every time. How awful in 2010 that this type of
> poor install still exists.
>
> 1. I have 1 NIC in the Source Server
> 2. I have successfully run the Migration Preparation Tool
> 3. I have successfully created an answer file, and the install uses it.
>
> At this point I am wondering if it would just be easier to create a new
> fresh install with a different domain, and then hopefully just migrate the
> mailboxes from one domain to another. I have spent countless hours on
> this
> already, and am beginning to wonder about the validity of this process.
> Has
> anyone anywhere ever had a successfull migration?
>
> Note: I have a 10.x.x.x IP address scheme, surely that can't matter.
>
> Any ideas anyone???
> --
> Miles Gibson