This is something we’ve been doing more of late, migrating customers from SBS 2003, SBS 2008 or even SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or more interestingly, the full version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with the Essentials Experience role added in. When we do this, the email side of things means that clients email needs to be migrated to either Office 365, our own Cloud Hosted Exchange or an onsite Exchange 2013 server.
Microsoft have a couple of blog posts that help out with the above migration, and they are listed here for ease of reference
The Official Guide to Migrating to WS2012R2 or WS2012 Standard with the Essentials Experience is here
The MS PSS team have also done a couple of great blog posts that you should read here and here
In a week or so, I’ll be adding to these posts with my own experiences on moving to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials using a Western Digital Sentinel DS6100 as my main server. Pretty cool stuff.
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I’d be interested in your comments regarding migration from SBS to a full version particularly regarding cleaning up any SBS relics and any AD remodeling. Most articles don’t seem to cover much regarding the differences between full/SBS. For example, SBS created users don’t seem to have all of the options of users created directly through AD. Does this have any lingering effects after migrating to full?
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