Our team is migrating around 2x SBS 2003 servers as week right now over to SBS 2011 Standard. We’ve gotten pretty darned good at it but every now and then something stops you dead in your tracks. Today one of the guys was onsite doing part of the preflight check on a migration. As part of that we need to revert the server from a 2 NIC configuration with ISA as … [Read more...]
No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites during migration
Doing an a migration today from Exchange 2003 to 2010 and once I’ve installed the Exchange 2010 server, I rebooted and logged back on to it. I got the following error “No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites.” After a little investigation, I realised that I was logging on with the local administrator account rather than the domain administrator … [Read more...]
Desktop to Cloud Event
Robert Crane has come up with another training offering, this time focused on the desktop to cloud migration. He’s launched the event which will be held in May (that’s just next month!) This event will consist of two tracks, one for consumers and one for IT Professionals and will provide the latest information on desktop software like Windows 8, Office 2010 as well as … [Read more...]
“ConfigureSharePointDatabaseTask: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not configured” during SBS 2003 to 2011 Migration
When doing the SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 migration, make sure you have the latest version of the document and ALWAYS review the document in full. Microsoft made a recent change in the documentation which included a step designed to get around this issue – it’s documented on Page 17 where you need to give the built in administrators group the right to logon as a batch job. If … [Read more...]
How can I tell how many days I have left to do my SBS 2011 Migration?
It’s easy to lose track of how long you’ve taken to do a migration, particularly if you have multiple projects running at the same time. Lucky for us in SBS 2011 Standard, Microsoft have an easy way to know how many days left you have to do the migration before the SBS 2003 or SBS 2008 server will shutdown automatically. Firstly – you need to know that you have a maximum … [Read more...]