SBS 2011 Essentials domain name and netbios name mismatch

When migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 essentials you may find that you hit an error where you cannot join the clients with the connect computer wizard.  If the netbios domain name is longer than 15 characters, the SBS 2003 will truncate the name and continue, the SBS 2011 essentials will have issues running the wizard.
In addition there can be times when the netbios and the domain name end up with different characters and thus the wizard will fail as well:

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