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
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