Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Hakim — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 21:19:25 GMT

this worked, didn't even rielaze there was a problem until we added a win 7 64 workstation to sbs network, then trying to get sbs to update windows update services started giving the above mentioned error.thanks again.

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

David Overton — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:20:20 GMT

Brian,

I'm not familar with any of the hardware manufacturers product numbers. If the particular Pentium D supports x64 then it should work, but I can't answer for the RAID controller etc. Dell should be able to tell you if this machine can run Windows 2008 x64 edition and if it can, it should be OK for SBS 2008.

Thanks

David

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Brian — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:00:39 GMT

Hey David,

I have a dell poweredge 830 w/ a pentium D 3.0 GHz 32 bit processor. The machine has 4 Gb's of RAM. Hard drives = 2-160gb drives on mirror partition and 2-500gb drives on mirror partition.

Question is will it run SBS 2008 ?

Thanks,

Brian

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Michael — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:09:07 GMT

Does the licence for the new SBS 2008 Premium allow you to host multiple web sites with SQL Server

as the backend database for publishing database driven web sites?

Thanks

Michael

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

John — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:25:35 GMT

thanks for the reference to stalltheball.com :)

We have had great sucess using SCVMM on W2K3 server to Virtualise servers.

Benefits are that you can take a virtual image complete with all required VHDs etc and either just store it in the library or tick the box to fire it up on a virtual host after shutting down the original physical server.

We use the P2V process detailed above (www.stalltheball.com/.../how_to_migrate_a_server_from_physical_to) in reverse if we need to do a P2P where you want to move a server from one bit of hardware to another.

technet.microsoft.com/.../bb871026.aspx

SCVMM FAQ - - technet.microsoft.com/.../bb740760.aspx

Specific requirements vary by Virtual Machine Manager component. For example, you can install the following components on separate servers or on a single server:

* Virtual Machine Manager server

* VMM database

* VMM Administrator Console

* Virtual machine hosts

* Library servers

* VMM Self-Service Portal

For specific software and hardware requirements, see Virtual Machine Manager System Requirements (go.microsoft.com/fwlink).

Software Requirements

technet.microsoft.com/.../bb740967.aspx

Using W2K8 with HyperV running a console only, is a pretty amazing bit of kit.

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

David Overton — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:31:12 GMT

Marcelo,

1) Using current tools from MS does requires ADS (which requires WS EE)

2) I don't expect to see too many people doing this - I think many will go for clean upgrade

3) You could look at an eval of WS EE

4) You could look at non MS tools such as www.stalltheball.com/.../how_to_migrate_a_server_from_physical_to

5) None of the above are necessarily supported by Microsoft - these are my opinions, not MS gospel

thanks

David

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

David Overton — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:29:04 GMT

Paulie,

the 2nd server is a 2nd server, so can be used as a DC.

thanks

David

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Marcelo — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:49:40 GMT

Hi Dave,

"1) Copy their existing setup to a virtual machine

2) Install SBS 2008 onto the original hardware and use the migration tools..."

Does 1) not need ADS, Ent.Server to "VMize" a "live" server? Or is there some resource to read at how do that to "VMise" a SBS2k3 box? I appreciate some link on how to do that :) Regards!

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Paulie — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:37:15 GMT

Presumably the 2nd server could be used a domain controller and therefore be of assistance if you wanted to migrate the system back to the original hardware.

I think the addition of the secondary server license adds a lot of flexibility, quite excited about it! :)

re: Answers to some of the questions about SBS 2008 (32-bit 2nd server, SCE, beta upgrades, migrating users

Tyler — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:12:24 GMT

Hey David, do you know if the CALS for SBS 2003 will work for SBS2008 or do they have to have Software Assurance on the CALS?

More information on SBS 2008

David Overton's Blog — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:41:22 GMT

I was reading over at Sean Daniel's blog about more info on SBS 2008 and realised there are a couple