Installing and Configuration SBS 2008

Downloading Script Bundle

belink — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:38:54 GMT

Believe it or not, I just purchased your SBS 2008 Migration book - solely for the purpose of obtaining your script bundle for migrating user shares from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008 (In my case sbs 2011) - I had read about this in Susan Bradley's document on sbs 2011 Migration and she had stated it works great for 2011 - It appears that the link provided in the book to download the script bundle is no longer active - Can you provide a new link for this script - I would greatly appreciate it!

Migration from Premium to Standard

chriscatford — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:10:30 GMT

Hello,

I have the book! Read from cover to cover! I'm preparing for the big day; the migration from SBS2003 to SBS2008. There's one question I haven't been able to find an answer to; will a migration from SBS2003 Premium edition to SBS2008 Standard edition work?

Thanks in advance, Chris

SBS Exchange issue

Matt Beardon — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:15:31 GMT

I'm migrating a sbs 2003 server to 2008 this week, everything reported it installed correctly however

When I go to migrate the exchange accounts I get the following:

MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make admin interface connection to server (hr=0x80040115, ec=-2147221227)

It appears when I look at the old server the Exchange Administrative group for exchange 2007 is missing? I cannot see the new server listed in the old first administractive group either? And the site connector is missing. The rest of the active directory appears to be ok. (and the public folders are sync'd) And I can move the offline address book ok.

Would you recommend uninstalling exchange 2007 and then reinstalling? Or is there another workaround?

regards

Matt

Migration of sbs2003 to sbs 2008

techshan — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:53:16 GMT

In our company we have a windows SBS2003 PREMIUM server configured as domain controller with exchange 2003 & Blackberry enterprise server also loaded.We are planning to go for a new server with SBS 2011 standard with premium addons for sql support for ERP solutions to be implemented in near future.

We want to retain the old SBS2003 with AD only to be configured as newly (removing the current AD after migrating to new server,)exchange 2010 & Blackberry server for our company.

Anybody please advise us the procedure for migration as of I have seen in this forum coexisting sbs in single domain is not possible!

And another question also I have------- my old sbs 2003 server is with name as abc.xyz.com , the problematic name unforutunately given by the installers at the time they commissioned the old server.We have for our company a domain xyz.com hosted through third party service provider.So we have some mail related issues in our local exchange (to be brief in describing)due to the current sbs 2003 server naming as abc.xyz.com instead of abc.xyz.local as recommended by Microsoft,

To get rid of this problem of name also,I want to use abc.xyz.local for the new server to be installed.Please guide me in this regard

Thanks & Regards

S.Swaminathan

Exchange Routing

flo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:43:53 GMT

Hello David,

thanks for the great book. Especialy tipps and tricks like setting a second hostname are very helpful.

But this time i've got a strange problem. I'm migrating exchange mailboxes from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008 at the moment. The strange thing is that i can send emails from an mailbox on the sbs 2003 to an mailbox on sbs 2008 but not the other way. It seems like the routing group connector from sbs 2008 to sbs 2003 is not working as it should. Both routing group connectors are in place and i did not find any errors in the eventlog...

Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks a lot

Florian

Migration order

dslee — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:58:19 GMT

Hi David,

Great book. Bought it a while ago, and didn't really use it, but doing a new 2003-08 migration and haven't done one for a while, so good opportunity to use your stuff.

Your book skips over 'Migrate Exchange' to 'Remove legacy group policies...' and deals with the Exchange migration in the following chapter. Is there a good reason to do it out of the order of the wizard's list?

Thanks,

David

Migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 - AD Copy portion stalling...

aggiedan97 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:45:54 GMT

I have successfully followed every step of migration from the 'legacy' sbs2003 server (A) to the new sbs2008 server (B). Everything has been working almost exactly as you indicated.

After OS install, B has located the answer file on a USB drive and it has worked as described. There were almost half a dozen restarts on B until the progress bar got to about 15% across (actually about 1" across the screen out of 7" - 8".

The dialog with the progress bar is labeled 'Expanding and Installing Files'. About every 30 minutes a pop-up message appears describing how the AD copy (or maybe replication) is taking longer than expected... You may choose to continue to wait for this operation to complete or skip this step. Click Yes to continue to wait or No to skip...

I realize I have not typed this 100% exactly as it is described, but I can copy the exact verbage the next time it appears.

Total wait time thus far is 3:45 minutes and the progress bar has not moved and the previous described pop-up appears every 30 minutes or so. One would think if I was willing to wait previously that it wouldn't ask me again unless it is looping, failing or something that there is no alert for.

Any ideas or help would be tremendously appreciated.

Thanks,
AggieDan97

About my book

David Overton — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:15:27 GMT

Welcome to the forums for my book on installing and configuring SBS 2008. At the moment the book is not released, but should you want to know more about the book, go to http://davidoverton.com/blogs/doverton/pages/sbs-2008-book.aspx.

Thanks for your interest

David

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