Windows sbs 2003 migration to sbs 2011

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SBS will have years of support and can be purchased now through the end of this calendar year. IT will be OEM only after july 1. Why would you migrate to a product that Microsoft is discontinuing? I would recommend purchasing standard licenses, Exchange and get your CAL's updated.

I completed a successful migration in early Feb from a very old server with both Server and Exchange on the same physical box. Below are the key references provided to me by Microsoft support to be safe, I opened a case for this migration.

I relied upon the first "keys to success" link and the migration guide. These are the basic steps we need to perform before starting the migration to make sure that the source server is clean and ready to migrate. Situation at hand: an organization is running a computer network based on a Small Business Server or SBS that is approaching the end of life or already operating beyond its life expectancy and so there's a need for upgrading to an IT solution that would work for four-six years.

There is no universal answer to the question of which platform to choose for the migration. A popular choice is a Small Business Server which would deliver those years of solid performance supported by Microsoft while minimum changes would be necessary for the network, training of personnel and overall IT philosophy. Other folks might find a cloud route more suitable and some would explore a hybrid approach of running an inexpensive Windows Server Essentials accompanied by a Hosted Exchange.

In this article we'd share our perspective on these migration options based on experience of migrating SBS since late 90's. The first is a clean installation of SBS and manual recreation of user accounts and importing of the data.

The second route is performing a migration type of installation of Small Business Server which would gradually take over all tasks from the old server before the latter would be decommissioned. Clean installation of SBS PROs: a fresh start guarantees that the server setup is going to be as good as it gets if there's been a nagging need for a drastic change domain name, data folder structure - now is a good time to make it happen this approach typically brings some spring cleaning and re-evaluating important aspects of the network which is a good thing to do every few years it's easy to make a fairly accurate estimate of time required for the migration the old server stays intact.

Will there be any problems with SBS? Thank you in advance for the assistance. Best Answer. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». In order to migrate from server standard to SBS , 1 We first need to take a healthy system state backup.

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