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The most important post you'll read today - SBS & EBS migrations

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Now that both the Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 public betas are available for download (DVDs orderable soon), you should be starting to get your head around migration & how you'll move your existing clients to the new platforms.

Given SBS 2008 is 64bit & the vast majority of installs are on new hardware, the development focus has been almost solely on migration rather than upgrade. EBS 2008 is a 1.0 product & given there's no such thing as a greenfield mid-market customer, we anticipate very few (if any) completely new installs & thus again migration is everything.

With continuing thanks to Nicholas King, check out the migration resources below.

Cheers,

Robbie

 

Small Business Server 2008 Migration

Migration is one of the killer workloads for SBS 2008.  We've built so much from SBS 2003.  An SBS 2008 migration is based off of a domain join side-by-side configuration where you migrate the user accounts and settings from the old machine to the new using a 21 day trust we create.  It is also answer file based so you'll need to kick off the tool found in the SBS 2008 binaries.  You can read more by following the migration guide found here

Essential Business Server 2008 Migration

Now we anticipate that nearly *every* EBS customer will be migrating some data, so that means we very rarely will have a clean install.  Due to this fact we heavily test literally dozens upon dozens of scenarios for migration.  We've also created a clever installation wizard that walks you through planning and preparing your environment, setting up each of the servers, migrating data during this process and finally completing the migration with a series of post-setup tasks.  This also gives you flexibility to gradually migrate you environment across.  Although I have to admit I'm a fan for moving everything across as safely and quickly as possible.  You can check out the EBS migration guide out here

So what does this mean for you?  Well all of that time you used to spend doing migrations can be put towards other tasks.  Like implementing Windows SharePoint Services!