Glad to hear it. If I get the go-ahead on a migration, I'm sure I'll be back here with questions.
Kurt On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:54 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wrapping up my 2nd swing migration myself – go live was Saturday > morning, I’ve got everything but OWA going (works internal, but not > external, likely because the entity that manages the firewall has a proxy > pointing back to https://<FQDN>/Exchange and it now needs to end with /owa > instead) > > > > The swing works amazingly well! The issues I’ve seen are from making other > changes simultaneously (in my case folder redirects, GPO drive mapping > instead of login script, and roaming profile changes). > > > > I did 100% of the swing with VM’s and it sure makes life easy. Have a ton of > extra temp space – even a USB SATA is handy, if slow. > > > > Dave > > > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:53 PM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OEM version of SBS 2003 R2 > > > > That's encouraging. > > I'm going to lobby for a new machine with SBS 2011 and a swing migration, > but I don't think it's likely to fly. > > I'm pretty sure I can get him to go for a new machine and a P2V, though. > > The interesting part will be the SCSI to IDE conversion that's likely to be > required. Right now there's a 1.5tb USB disk hanging off the machine for a > large number of really large drawings and floor plans - I'd like to move > those to a RAID array like the OS is running on. > > Kurt > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:23 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > > It will ask you to re-activate, but if you have the original OEM code on the > sticker on the side of the machine you will be ok. I've done this many > times with XP and 2003, XP usually takes on it's own but you have to call > Microsoft and ask nicely with servers. Usually you don't even have to plead > your case. Ahh my hardware is dying and I need to get this server running > temporarily as a VM. Problem I'm having now is an old 2003 SBS server that > I don't have the original OEM sticker for because the local POS vendor that > built the machine didn't stick it on there. So now I'm stuck buying an old > copy off eBay or something. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:31 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: OEM version of SBS 2003 R2 > > I think a P2V will work just fine. Try it. If it doesn't work - you aren't > out anything. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:34 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OEM version of SBS 2003 R2 > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> OEM is tied to a specific machine. So moving to different hardware is >>> out. >> >> So I can't even migrate from a Dell PE 850 to the current gen of that >> class of hardware from Dell? If true, that's incredibly unfortunate. >> Is the install serialized in some fashion (MAC address, BIOS serial >> number, CPU serial number, System Tag, something else)? > > Make that a PE 840... > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
