This morning, I received the following announcement from Jeff Middleton about his release of migration guides for SBS 2011. Whilst Microsoft have their official migration guides available for SBS 2011 here, Jeffs solution offers an alternate viewpoint that allow you to work around some of the business challenges faced by SMB IT Professionals. It's … [Read more...]
Migrating SharePoint from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Standard
Microsoft have provided some documentation on how to do this as part of their guide, however local Sydney SharePoint guru, Robert Crane has provided a much more indepth and detailed series of steps on his blog here. Rob’s steps include not just the basics, but also quite a few advanced tips and tricks including better memory optimisation, and importantly how to use BLOB … [Read more...]
How can I use ShadowProtect and Head Start Restore to move a server quickly?
I blogged some time back about how I moved a terminal server which was a Hyper-V guest from Sydney to Brisbane in 7 seconds. People have asked me how I did that so I figured I’d put some notes together for you on how to use ShadowProtect to move a server quickly from one platform to another. You might not achieve the same 7 seconds that I did, as it depends on many … [Read more...]
How to migrate to SBS 2011 from SBS 2003
Microsoft have released their white paper on how to migrate to SBS 2011 from SBS 2003. This white paper walks you through all the steps needed to take you from SBS 2003 or SBS 2003 R2 over to SBS 2011 Standard edition. This basically involves installing the new SBS 2011 server in a side by side situation with the existing server, and migrating data over to it using … [Read more...]
How to migrate from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011
Microsoft have today released information on TechNet for migration to SBS 2011 Standard Edition from SBS 2003. This is the first and most likely method that many of our clients will be needing to follow to move over to the new platform given many are still on SBS 2003. This document available here . I’ll be posting more on my migration from SBS 2008 to SBS 2011 … [Read more...]