sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

Perfectly reliable, and has been in business for years. Jeff Middleton, the
owner, is well known in the small business IT community - hosts a conference
in New Orleans, etc. You'll probably get many recommendations from his
satisfied customers - including me. I migrated my production SBS from 2K to
2K3 on new hardware several years ago - the business owner was working on
his desktop PC when I completed the migration, and he didn't even know it.


"samst" <samst@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

I had never set up a SBS server before but was able to successfully complete
a swing migration from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008 using the SBS Swing Migration
tools without most of the people in the office even knowing when the
transition occurred. Jeff provides a lot of very detailed documentation
and additional personalized assistance when needed. It was well worth the
money to me. If you are real SBS expert, like many of the contributors to
this forum, you may not need the extra help. But if you don't have that
much experience with setting up SBS servers and transitioning your AD to a
new server, it is highly recommended.

"samst" <samst@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

having sometimes been referred to as such an 'SBS Expert' and also having
developed my own migration strategy (while Jeff developed his) I assure you
that should I be looking at such a migration I would be looking to Jeff's
tools/documentation.

Main reason is Jeff's thoroughness, 2nd is the included support and Jeff's
knowledge of AD.

"PJG51" <patg@newsgroup> wrote in message
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>I had never set up a SBS server before but was able to successfully
>complete a swing migration from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008 using the SBS Swing
>Migration tools without most of the people in the office even knowing when
>the transition occurred. Jeff provides a lot of very detailed
>documentation and additional personalized assistance when needed. It was
>well worth the money to me. If you are real SBS expert, like many of the
>contributors to this forum, you may not need the extra help. But if you
>don't have that much experience with setting up SBS servers and
>transitioning your AD to a new server, it is highly recommended.
>
> "samst" <samst@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:3E2E58E2-857F-44D7-8B36-D7174D6793EA@newsgroup

>> sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

>

It is highly recommended, endorsed, sanctioned (in the good sense of
the term), lauded, praised, and dare I say, blessed! Jeff Middleton is one
of the few people who actually knows what he is doing and understands how
things work. Every dollar spent there is a huge bargain.

"samst" <samst@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

In article <3E2E58E2-857F-44D7-8B36-D7174D6793EA@newsgroup>,
samst@newsgroup says...

>
> sbsmigration.com looks promising. is it recommended?

I migrated a network with the following:

1 x SBS 2003 premium
2 x Terminal Servers with 60 users
30 x printers
4 x remote offices
7 x scanner/email copier/printer devices
1 x dedicated email server (email not on SBS)

The migration was done in stages:

1) Install Temp Domain Controller
2) Wait for AD to replicate
3) Follow direction
4) Restore Backup from Production SBS, data, to new server
5) Take network down for 2 hours during night-shift
6) Robocopy with security all files that were different from data
7) Remove old server
8) Reboot new non-SBS server
9) Reboot all workstations (used shutdown script in a batch file)

Left over things - had to remotely reinstall AV software since it's
managed from the server, had a couple files that were in use when copied
even though we asked users to logout....

I've done the a few times, it was painless and easy.

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