Comments on: Love and hate for Microsoft Small Business Server http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1957-love-and-hate-for-microsoft-small-business-server.html Tech writing blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Philip Elder http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1957-love-and-hate-for-microsoft-small-business-server.html/comment-page-1#comment-150694 Philip Elder Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:03:52 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1957-love-and-hate-for-microsoft-small-business-server.html#comment-150694 Tim, There is no denying that migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 is quite the endeavour. David Overton's book is really good indeed. We have also compiled a guide for migrations here: http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2009/06/sbs-2003-to-sbs-2008-migration-guide.html While the process is quite complicated, it becomes a lot easier to deal with the complications of the individual SMB setups after running through a number of migrations. There are others out there that have put together migration methods with each method having its pros and cons, but they are still quite complicated. In the end, the Microsoft method does enable us to migrate _almost_ all SBS 2003 setups to SBS 2008. Philip Elder Tim,

There is no denying that migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 is quite the endeavour.

David Overton’s book is really good indeed.

We have also compiled a guide for migrations here:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2009/06/sbs-2003-to-sbs-2008-migration-guide.html

While the process is quite complicated, it becomes a lot easier to deal with the complications of the individual SMB setups after running through a number of migrations.

There are others out there that have put together migration methods with each method having its pros and cons, but they are still quite complicated.

In the end, the Microsoft method does enable us to migrate _almost_ all SBS 2003 setups to SBS 2008.

Philip Elder

]]> By: Andy Parkes http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1957-love-and-hate-for-microsoft-small-business-server.html/comment-page-1#comment-148902 Andy Parkes Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:49:29 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1957-love-and-hate-for-microsoft-small-business-server.html#comment-148902 Take a look at David Overton's book (I reviewed it here: http://andyparkes.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/02/small-business-server-2008-installation-migration-and-configuration/) He takes the Microsoft method and expands on it in much more detail. Take a look at David Overton’s book (I reviewed it here: http://andyparkes.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/02/small-business-server-2008-installation-migration-and-configuration/)

He takes the Microsoft method and expands on it in much more detail.

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