I’ve been involved in a large 2500 seat Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration and consolidation project recently. During the mailbox moves, I found that often the move requests were being stalled with a status of RelinquishedWLMStalled. I tried to change many things to improve the migration including modifying the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file to … [Read more...]
There was an error during move operation when moving a VM into a Cluster
Moving machines around my network is often challenging, but hey – that's why we do this right? I’ve recently rebuilt my cluster, and it’s now entirely focused around SMB3 storage. While I did the rebuild, I moved my machines onto a 2012 R2 Hyper-V server that was a member server within the domain. Once I got my cluster fully working, I used SCVMM to move the … [Read more...]
How to do Exchange 2013 Migration Without Migrating Public Folders
We’ve been doing a number of migrations from SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Exchange 2013., or other variations. So far all the clients have needed to migrate their public folders which is a long and complicated process that really is a pain. Recently we’ve had the need to migrate a client that has no Public Folders in their Exchange … [Read more...]
How can I migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials Experience?
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 … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Migration Documents
I was searching for a list of all the current resources on migrating to Windows Server 2012 Essentials – I finally found them on Microsoft.com. Sadly I could not locate much in the downloadable versions of these documents, but I’ll update this later once I do find them. Migrate Windows Small Business Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 Essentials Migrate Windows … [Read more...]