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Perform post-migration tasks for Windows Server Essentials migration1

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Applies To: Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 Essentials

The following tasks help you finish setting up your Destination Server with some of the same settings that were on the Source Server. You may have disabled some of these settings on your Source Server during the migration process, so they were not migrated to the Destination Server. Or they are optional configuration steps that you may want to perform.

Delete DNS entries of the Source Server

After you decommission the Source Server, the Domain Name Service (DNS) server may still contain entries that point to the Source Server. Delete these DNS entries.

To delete DNS entries that point to the Source Server

  1. On the Destination Server, open DNS Manager.

  2. In DNS Manager, right-click the server name, click Properties, and then click the Forwarders tab.

  3. Determine if there is an entry in the forwarder list that points to the Source Server. If there is, click Edit, and then delete that entry in the Edit Forwarders window.

  4. In DNS Manager, expand the server name, and then expand Forward Lookup Zones.

  5. For each Forward Lookup Zone, right-click the zone, click Properties, and then click the Name Servers tab.

  6. Click an entry in the Name servers box that points to the Source Server, click Remove, and then click OK.

  7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until all pointers to the Source Server are removed.

  8. Click OK to close the Properties window.

  9. In the DNS Manager console, expand Reverse Lookup Zones.

  10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 to remove all Reverse Lookup Zones that point to the Source Server.

Share line-of-business and other application data folders

You must set the shared folder permissions and the NTFS permissions for the line-of-business and other application data folders that you copied to the Destination Server. After you set the permissions, the shared folders are displayed in the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard in the Storage section.

If you are using a logon script to map drives to the shared folders, you must update the script to map to the drives on the Destination Server.

Fix client computer issues after migrating

If you migrate to Windows Server Essentials from Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server installed, client computers on the network still have the Microsoft Firewall Client and Internet Explorer configured to use a proxy server.

This causes connectivity issues on the client computers, because the proxy server no longer exists. If there is a different proxy server configured, the client computers continue to use the server running Windows SBS 2003 for the proxy server. To fix this issue, you must reconfigure Internet Explorer to not use a proxy server or to use the new proxy server.

To reconfigure Internet Explorer

  1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options.

  2. Click the Connections tab, click LAN Settings, and then do one of the following:

    • If you are not using a proxy server on your network, clear all the check boxes in the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box.

    • If you want to use a new proxy server on your network:

      1. In the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box, clear the check boxes in the Automatic configuration section.

      2. In the Proxy server section, verify that both check boxes are selected.

      3. In the Address box, type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the proxy server.

      4. In the Port box, type 80.

  3. Click OK twice.

  4. Browse to a website to ensure that the connection settings are correct.

Give the built-in Administrators group the right to log on as a batch job

After you migrate an existing Windows Small Business Server 2003 domain to Windows Server Essentials, you should give the built-in Administrators group the right to log on as a batch job. Verify that the built-in Administrators group still has the right to log on as a batch job to the Destination Server. Administrators need this right to run an alert on the Destination Server without logging on.

To give the built-in Administrators group the right to log on as a batch job

  1. On the Destination Server, open the Group Policy Management administrative tool.

  2. In the Group Policy Management Console tree, expand Forest: <ServerName>, expand Domains, and then expand your server.

  3. Expand Domain Controllers, right-click Default Domain Controllers Policy, and then click Edit.

  4. In Group Policy Management Editor, click Default Domain Controllers Policy<ServerName>Policy, and then expand Computer Configuration.

  5. Expand Policies, expand Windows Settings, and then expand Security Settings.

  6. In the Security Settings tree, expand Local Policies, and then click User Rights Assignment.

  7. In the results pane, right-click Log on as a batch job, and then click Properties.

  8. In the Log on as a batch job Properties page, click Add User or Group.

  9. In the Add User or Group dialog box, click Browse.

  10. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, type Administrators.

  11. Click Check Names to verify that the built-in Administrators group appears, and then click OK three times to save the setting.

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