SBS 2008 Migration demo and interview

Posted By: David Tesar | Jul 9th @ 8:42 AM

Chris Almida is the program manager for SBS team, owns the migration feature, and also the customer adoption program.  One of the biggest advantages of migration is now you can do the migration during production hours without ever having the users notice! Chris talks about:

  • Supported migration paths
  • Tips from his experience on doing many migrations
  • Troubleshooting steps (if you even need them) for doing migrations
  • Steps to take for SBS migration

From [9:24] to [~17:20] Chris explains a walk through of the SBS migration wizard.  Some of the questions answered:

  • What security groups the migration user account needs to be a part of
  • The difference between the two different Microsoft update mechanisms in the wizard
  • The purpose of filling in the company information

For more information about migration, read the SBS 2008 deployment guide.

SBS has hit RC1 and will release the product on November 12th, 2008.  Read this post for more announcements made around SBS/EBS for WPC.  To learn more about SBS/EBS 2008 and download a public preview, go to www.multiplyyourpower.com
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#Jul 12th @ 7:35 AM
stryqx
stryqx
Be nice to see the following in the migration:

- use of DFS Consolidation Root to leave UNC paths intact after migration
- use of DFS for any new shares, eliminating the need for UNC path migration in the future
#Jul 28th @ 9:13 AM
calmid
calmid

Thank you for the input regarding the use of DFS.  For migration we concentrated on providing a path form the existing out of the box workloads to the new out of the box workloads and as DFS in not integrated/utilised by either SBS 2003 or 2008 we did not provide any specific path.  I do agree that DFS could be useful in a box to box migration of this type and can certainly be implemented by a partner on the domain prior to the migration and migrated  to SBS 2008 via the DFS migration methodologies.

Thanks!

Chris Almida [MSFT]