Yes, I think. You are correct. I messed up with lot of numbers in the thread. Go through the thread. I think, Kent suggested a great IDEA in that .... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/ac0ce9ef-4401-44f7-9f69-591a1cced268 Anoop C Nair

Hi 1) Use the Backup feature in ConfigMgr. to perform a complete backup 2) Install a new operating system with a sccm installation using the same name, drives etc 3)restore sccm from backup Inplace upgrades of the OS is not supportedKent Agerlund | My blogs: http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kea/ and http://scug.dk/ | Twitter @Agerlund | Linkedin: /kentagerlund

I'm looking at moving my Primary site from a Windows 2003 box over to a Windows 2008 server with SQL 2008 and wanted to know if anyone has done this and if anyone had issues? Also looking for some technet how to's on moving it over. Thanks

Hello - There are two types of migration. Which one you are planning for? 1. In place (upgrade the current servers) 2. Side by Side (migrate to new Hardware) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb681075.aspx Go through the below thread to get more details about in place migration. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/75779cf4-ff7c-4724-b298-902e2cbf48c2 Extract from thread In addition, there is also another way : 1# Upgrade the SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 SP3 2# Inplace upgrade of SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693584.aspx 3# Run the ConfigMgr backup task (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632797.aspx) Also, you will need to backup all packages you have setup, including the Package source folders because it's not included on the ConfigMgr backup. 4# Rebuild the new machine (keep same name, domain, drive letter, ...) and all requirements (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc431377.aspx). 5# Install ConfigMgr. 6# Restore the backup (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680456.aspx). To restore all package, you can use PreloadPkgOnSite.exe tool : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C36FCDA8-9336-4D44-9568-5530FF7635DD&displaylang=en Anoop C Nair

Hello - There are two types of migration. Which one you are planning for? 1. In place (upgrade the current servers) 2. Side by Side (migrate to new Hardware) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb681075.aspx Go through the below thread to get more details about in place migration . http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/75779cf4-ff7c-4724-b298-902e2cbf48c2 Extract from thread In addition, there is also another way : 1# Upgrade the SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 SP3 2# Inplace upgrade of SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693584.aspx 3# Run the ConfigMgr backup task (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632797.aspx ) Also, you will need to backup all packages you have setup, including the Package source folders because it's not included on the ConfigMgr backup. 4# Rebuild the new machine (keep same name, domain, drive letter, ...) and all requirements (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc431377.aspx ). 5# Install ConfigMgr. 6# Restore the backup (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680456.aspx ). To restore all package, you can use PreloadPkgOnSite.exe tool : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C36FCDA8-9336-4D44-9568-5530FF7635DD&displaylang=en Anoop C Nair I think the question is how to move the current SCCM2007 environment to a new win2008/SQL2008 box. This is not an sms2003 migration.

Doing an in-place upgrade of the OS is not supported. It is essentially a backup of the current site (using the built-in maint task of course as well as anything else not backed up by the task including package source files and SSRS reports) and then a restore to clean installation of the new OS making sure that the server name is the same and that the drive layout (letters) is the same. I don't think that there are official links for this process but other documented it (I'm Kent or Torsten have a link handy and will add to this thread.) Why do Windows 2008 instead of 2008 R2 though?Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/default.aspx | Twitter @JasonSandys

If I remember well, John Marcum has wrote a very good document (step bu step) about how to use the backup/restore to move SCCM to a new hardware but actually I cannot find the link :-( Anyway take into consideration what Kent and jason said, they are right, and if you use the R2 ot R3 package (ConfigMgr SQL Reporting Point) so to backup/restore SRS see this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155814.aspx . For the SUP role, I prefer reinstal WSUS from zero without any restore even if you can backup/restore WSUS (just for your info: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sus/archive/2008/05/21/wsus-how-to-backup-and-restore-wsus-using-the-wizard-mode.aspx) and as Anoop already said the PreloadPkgOnSite.exe for backup/restore your packages. Bechir Gharbi | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/bgharbi/