Looking to Migrate to Small Business Server 2011?

If you’re looking to migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011, and aren’t completely sure where to get started, you have your choice of migration options from Microsoft. 

The migration solutions provided are well documented and tested by Microsoft, but do require extra hardware, and do require you to change the computer name of your server.  Additionally, these migration whitepapers are free of charge for you to use.

• Migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard from Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard from Windows Small Business Server 2008
• Migrate Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard to new hardware
• Move all SharePoint Foundation 2010 databases for Windows SBS 2011 Standard to another server
• Migrating Windows SBS 2003 to Windows SBS 2011 Essentials
• Migrating Windows SBS 2011 Essentials to New Hardware

There are other solutions that you can choose such as the Swing Migration, which at an additional fee you can get a customized migration paper, and access to the Swing migration forums.  Both are valuable resources and you need to determine which is best for your customer’s business.  Both solutions get you from point A to point B, the better place on SBS 2011 Essentials or Standard

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Migrate from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008

Announced this morning over on the SBS User Assistance Blog, was a newly added whitepaper to the MVP Corner on Technet. The paper written by an SBS support engineer from India, Edwin Joseph.  His whitepaper covers the how-to steps on migrating from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008. So if you’ve been itching to upgrade this old piece of software, now you can!

If you want to read more from Edwin, he maintains his own blog.

In the meantime, you can directly download the SBS 2000 to SBS 2008 Whitepaper.

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Adding Windows Server 2008 to your existing SBS 2003 Network

Hey Folks,

Our doc team has outdone themselves again. Only a few short weeks after the annoucement of Windows Server 2008, you have some documentation in the SBS Tech Library on how to join it to your Small Business Server 2003 network.





The direct link to the topic is available here.

As a heads up, you'll be unable to use the http://servername/connectcomputer link to join it to the network, so make sure you check out the help topic to save yourself any pains.

Thanks to the SBS documentation team!

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