SBS 2008 Migration demo and interview

Posted By: David Tesar | Jul 9th, 2008 @ 8:42 AM | 118,800 Views | 8 Comments

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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 12^th, 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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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

calmid

In reply to stryqx

#Jul 12th, 2008 @ 7:35 AM

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]

AndreJonker

In reply to System

#Sep 12th, 2008 @ 6:01 AM

Chris mentions documentation for migrating SBS 2000 to SBS 2008. I am unable to find this. Is the documentation available for download?

NTXMigrator

I am also having trouble finding a document for SBS 2000 to SBS 2008. Is it available for download?

calmid

In reply to NTXMigrator

#Feb 12th @ 9:03 AM

The documents that cover SBS 2000 as the Source server are in line for publishing. As soon as I am able to provide a date I will post back.

JCarlyle

In reply to calmid

#Feb 26th @ 1:02 PM

Hi I was wondering if there was any news on the documentation for migrating SBS 2000 to SBS 2008 being available yet ?

T.Ali

Hi Chris,

Thanks for explaining all this, was very useful. But I am still new to migration process and dont know where to strat from.

Actually, I have SBS 2008 server with pre-installed OS. Now I want to migrate from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and I want it with minimul work and less technical stuff.

Now I was wondering how can we start migration if you have SBS 2008 already installed. In migration mode, do we install the server from scratch and use answer file? if yes, then i was not sure about Administrator account you mentioned that we should create a new one. if we dont have Server installed yet how do we create admin account to use in migration mode? or is it admin of SBS 2003?

I will really appricaite your time if you colud please help me.

many thanks,

Ali