Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008

I have installed SBS 2008 STD and just realized that for migration I had to create a answerfile.

We just want to migrate the users and mailboxes (From SBS 2003) ; is there a way I can do this without re-installing and running the user migration on the new box.

Kind Regards

PS : Do we have to have the same domain name for the user migration or we can change the domain name.

Solution 1:

As you said, migration from SBS 2003 to 2008 requires the answer file when installing the SBS 2008 Server. Unless you follow the steps in the Microsoft SBS 2008 migration guide and checklist, then the migration will fail. It is not possible to change the domain name when migrating.

Otherwise you could Exmerge the mailboxes to .PST files from the SBS 2003 server, and use the User State Migration Tool for the user profiles.