SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Migration Error – You must be logged on using the built-in administrator account.

We have a number of SBS 2003 sites where we created a new domain administrator account with identical permissions to the built-in 500 account.

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server Setup

Setup has detected the following requirements have not been met: You must be logged on using the built-in administrator account.

The above error message came up when we were running the Add/Remove Programs process to uninstall Exchange 2003 on the source server.

So, we enabled the built-in 500 domain admin account, reset the password, logged off, logged on, and re-ran the Add/Remove process.

We were then able to move on with removing Exchange 2003.

NOTE: It is important to have the Exchange 2003 install directory (exchsrvr65) or CD 2 from the SBS 2003 setup disks handy!

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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