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How can I migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials Experience?

September 5, 2014 by Wayne Small 4 Comments

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...]

You know your server is old when…

October 13, 2012 by Wayne Small 10 Comments

You try to run Windows Update and instead get redirected to this website Basically – your server has not been patched in so long, that Microsoft does not support it at all anymore and you need to go and install the most current service pack before you can begin the patching process.  I saw this screen this weekend on an SBS 2003 server that was deployed on 2nd December … [Read more...]

Oh how quick we forget SBS 2003

September 6, 2012 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

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...]

“ConfigureSharePointDatabaseTask: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not configured” during SBS 2003 to 2011 Migration

January 5, 2012 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

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 what Exchange Version I have?

October 26, 2011 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

I stumbled across this gem last week and thought I’d share it with you.  Using the tables listed here you can figure out what version of Exchange Server you are running. You can use the Get-ExchangeServer powershell command to find the Exchange 2010 and 2007 versions, but you will need to use the GUI in Exchange 2003. … [Read more...]

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