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[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Roderick White, David Copeland and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] The Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Migration Preparation Tool is included in the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard installation media. This tool is...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, John Bay and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] First Part: SBS 2011 Standard Migrations – Keys to Success Second Part: SBS 2011 Standard Migrations – Keys to Success – Part 2: The Setup Phase This is the...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, John Bay and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] First Part: SBS 2011 Standard Migrations – Keys to Success This is the second post of the series. During the actual setup of the SBS 2011 Standard server you may encounter...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, John Bay and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] The purpose of this post is to help you complete your Windows/SBS 2003/SBS 2008 migrations to SBS 2011 Standard successfully on the first attempt. Furthermore, on subsequent posts...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Gagan Mehra and Wayne Gordon McIntyre from Commercial Technical Support] There might be instances where an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files (PST). With Exchange 2010 SP1 we have new set of PowerShell...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White from Commercial Technical Support] In order to determine the number of days left to complete your migration, SBS 2011 Migration Wizard Home page now displays a warning at the bottom of the page. In previous versions of Small Business Server, administrators...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] This post is an extension of Part Two of this series, where we are discussing how to migrate Companyweb with a larger content database to a SQL 2008 R2 Standard instance. In the last post we covered the configuration...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] In Part One of this series we discussed how to upgrade the preinstalled instance of Sharepoint on the SBS 2011 server to SQL 2008 R2 Standard in order to migrate a larger content database. This particular post is...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] For those of you who are operating with a WSS 3.0 site that has a content database approaching or larger than 10GB, you will have to take database size limits into account if you are planning a migration to SBS 2011...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] When migrating to Small Business Server 2011 standard you may receive the following error message. Cannot find the Source Server Verify that the Source Server name is correct, and then try...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] In SBS 2011, administrators must provide an answer file (SBSAnswerFile.xml) to perform a migration mode install. Administrators can also use answer files to accelerate new domain installs (clean installs) as well...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] Windows Small Business Server 2011 supports installing using an answer file. You can use an answer file to automate both clean and migration mode installs. To perform a migration mode install you MUST use an answer...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby from Commercial Technical Support ] One of the major changes for SBS 2011 from SBS 2008 is the inclusion of the Migration Preparation Tool. This tool is designed to prepare your source server and domain to be migrated to SBS 2011. The tool performs...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] Since the early beta versions of SBS 2008, we have accumulated almost 3+ years of experience supporting the product. By now, we have a number of setup issues that we consider "common", this post will try to...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett from Product Quality and Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support] When installing SBS 2008 in migration mode, you are prompted to Run the Migration Preparation Tool on the Source Server, even though you already have: Source Server does...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] We are seeing quite a few calls where public folders, Offline Address books, and Free/Busy information are not replicating to the new SBS 2008 server after following the “ Move Exchange Server public folders for Windows SBS 2008 migration ” steps...

We have updated the SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Best Practices blog post with a few new recommendations.  Please review the following post before attempting an SBS 2003 to 2008 migration: SBS 2008 Migrations from SBS 2003 – Keys to Success

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] Note: This article has you make changes to Active Directory. Before doing so be sure to make a complete backup . After a mail migration to a new domain/Exchange organization using Exmerge, you will lose the ability to reply...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre and Justin Crosby ] There are many reasons why a company may need or want to change their domain name, there could have been a company merger/split, the current domain name is too long or not to their liking, or simply the company’s name has changed...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett, Damian Liebaschoff, Mark Stanfill, Justin Crosby, John Bay, David Copeland, Wayne McIntyre, and Shawn Sullivan] The purpose of this post is to help you complete your SBS 2003 migrations to SBS 2008 successfully on the first attempt. If you are already...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] As many are already aware, exmerge is no longer supported in Exchange 2007, this has been replaced with the Power Shell cmdlets import-mailbox and export-mailbox introduced in Exchange 2007 SP1 that now handle this functionality. This post was...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White and Justin Crosby] Windows Small Business Server 2008 supports installation using an answer file. The answer file provides the following functionality: Automates the SBS 2008 installation process for both a clean installation as well as a migration...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of John Bay and Shawn Sullivan] We have recently received a number of support calls where migrations to SBS 2008 are failing, particularly with Exchange setup, because customers are not running the Migration Preparation Tool on the SBS 2003 server prior to beginning...

On behalf of the SBS team, I am extremely pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server 2008 software has been finalized! Today both SBS Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing, which means we begin the process of finalizing international versions, creating media, building packaging...

Check out the Migration demo and interview of Chris Almida.  Chris is a program manager for Microsoft and owns the migration solution for SBS 2008.   SBS 2008 Migration demo and interview For more information about migration, read the SBS 2008 deployment guide . To learn more about SBS/EBS...