I’ve spoken about migration several times now for SBS 2008 . The short answer is that migration from one box to another is vital. If a customer wants to do migration on the same box, then this is either expensive (and a very long process) or something that requires moving the server temporarily to another...
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Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Community, SBSC, Microsoft, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Small business, Partner, SBS 2008
One thing I have never been accused of is holding back my opinion and on the Yahoo Groups recently there has been some discussions around what Microsoft has done for partners. As part of the discussion this blog post from Sonal, the UK Product Manager for SBS 2008 and EBS 2008, came up with a question...
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on Sat, Jun 28 2008
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Last night I was at the Merseyside Partner group in Liverpool and once question that got asked again (and was in TPV and London too) was around downgrade rights from SBS 2008 to SBS 2003, so I dug for about 30 seconds and found these items on the Licensing FAQ site Microsoft Windows Small Business Server...
From The Official SBS Blog : Small Business Server 2003 Migration Update 943494 Released , a slightly old post, but something work highlighting – how to have 2 SBS boxes on the same network for 21 days. Small Business Server 2003 Migration Update 943494 Released [Today's post comes to us courtesy...
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on Thu, Jun 19 2008
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With SBS 2003 R2, some of the Windows Server 2003 R2 features were not included. I asked today where we were with SBS 2008 and the CPU, Memory and feature lists are, so I am told, the same. On the page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx it talks about the max number of...
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on Thu, Jun 19 2008
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If you have have Office 2007 or a Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search (WDS) then you probably have V2.6 or V3 of this fantastic search product. Version 4 has a wealth of updates, but most importantly, is more stable and faster. One of the things I love about this is that if you put this on a client...
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on Sun, Jun 8 2008
Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Microsoft, Windows Client, Windows XP, SBS 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Search, SBS 2008
The Console setup process ( Once SBS is set up, how to do the basic configuration through the management console ) sets up SBS 2008 for use. OneCare for Servers provide anti-malware capabilities and is an important part of the system integrity. SBS 2008 comes with a trial of OneCare and so far I’ve found...
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on Thu, Jun 5 2008
Filed under: Support and Tools, Security, SBSC, Microsoft, Documentation, Malware, Tips, Small business, x64, SBS Cougar, SBS 2008