I bought the kit and got the beta 2003-2008 kit. Had a change in schedule, so have not done it yet, but did read the 200+ pages in the documents. Very detailed.
From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration The swing migration kit written by Jeff Middleton is a great tool. He hasn't finished his 2003 to 2008 kit yet, but he's started a beta process for the kit and it's suppose to be ready in February. He had a nice presentation about migrating not too long ago on the partner training site. Might be worth a watch as well. Michael Smith's blog is a good resource too. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration Found what I needed on your site... thanks. Might just buy the Swingkit just to see what all it has. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration This is a single server, small setting. Only a few users. Mailboxes are relatively small to begin with. If all goes to crap, I can just start over. I was just hoping the migration would eliminate the need to recreate accounts, etc. Michael, I have not looked on your site or googled yet, but do you have the VM migration steps on your site? Or a link? From: Michael Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration The sbs2003->2008 migration is a hard slog. Do lots of preparation and check that everything is really running smoothly first. I had problems with DNS and ended up stripping off all my member servers and sites to simplify things. Also bring all the mailboxes down in size. If necessary archive them of and put them back later, but let the migration run on minimal storage size - and turn the AV OFF for the mailboxes - watching 200,000 emails come through at 1 per second is not fun!! For me Exchange was the steepest learning curve, but the pop pickup really comes into its own while you migrate and sort you IP issues. Changes to things like catch-alls to a bit of time to work on - but I know of an MVP's blog with a few hints (see below!!) If you get a chance to virtualise the 2003 box then you could try the migration in isolation. Mike Mike Hoffman Drum Brae Solutions Ltd From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 January 2009 22:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration I've done the SBS 2003 -> SBS 2003 virtual h/w migration a couple of times now. It's easy. Lots of steps, but easy. I've yet to see any of my SBS customers see any value in moving to SBS 2008. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Andy Shook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration Bob\Lum, Please post your results, I've got a similar migration project for a friend of mine coming up in March so I'm starting to study now. Although, he might stay on SBS2K3.... Shook From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration Sorry this doesn't help, but I have a client moving to new hardware, but what I am doing is VM-ing their SBS2K3 server onto a 2008 Server with Hyper-V. When I migrate them to SBS2K8 it will be done with VM's. Please do send an update next week on how it goes (here or off-list is fine). David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2003 to SBS2008 Migration I have just finished reading the article and will do a migration from 2003 to 2008 (new hardware) this weekend. Anyone have experience with this? Did you run into any problems? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
