- Jul 17, 2004
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I'm not really sure which forum I should put this in, so if this is the wrong place go ahead and move me mods.
A friend of mine has a small business that he's been running for a few years now and recently asked me for some help with his computers after his "IT Guy" moved. He asked if I'd help out and I owe him more than a few favors, so I thought I'd take a look. It seems his system had at one point been SBS 2003 then was migrated to Server 2008 (with licenses that I'm a little concerned to ask about the validity of). The domain structure is quite a mess, there seems to be a few corrupt SQL databases (WSUS doesn't work at all, it can't find the server... locally), etc. I've already migrated a great deal of his services over to Office 365 because that seems to fill his need and takes care of some of the licensing issues on the Office Projects. I'm probably going to move him over to InTune as well.
After taking a look at the set-up, it's pretty clear to me that Server 2008 is overkill for his needs by a long shot. He doesn't need much more than file storage a few industry-specific software packages to run anymore now that he's on O365. The hardware he is running on is only a year old and doesn't need replacement for any reason.
So I have a few questions:
A. Is it even possible to successfully migrate from Server 2008 to SBS 2011? I understand there's not really an official migration, but being able to migrate the domain name and user objects would probably be good enough for my purposes.
B. Can I do this without another computer? Currently I'm considering turning his Server 2008 installation into a virtual machine and launching it in an instance on SBS 2011 to have them both "up" for the migration. Can I pull this off? Can you think of any snags I'm missing doing it this way?
TIA
A friend of mine has a small business that he's been running for a few years now and recently asked me for some help with his computers after his "IT Guy" moved. He asked if I'd help out and I owe him more than a few favors, so I thought I'd take a look. It seems his system had at one point been SBS 2003 then was migrated to Server 2008 (with licenses that I'm a little concerned to ask about the validity of). The domain structure is quite a mess, there seems to be a few corrupt SQL databases (WSUS doesn't work at all, it can't find the server... locally), etc. I've already migrated a great deal of his services over to Office 365 because that seems to fill his need and takes care of some of the licensing issues on the Office Projects. I'm probably going to move him over to InTune as well.
After taking a look at the set-up, it's pretty clear to me that Server 2008 is overkill for his needs by a long shot. He doesn't need much more than file storage a few industry-specific software packages to run anymore now that he's on O365. The hardware he is running on is only a year old and doesn't need replacement for any reason.
So I have a few questions:
A. Is it even possible to successfully migrate from Server 2008 to SBS 2011? I understand there's not really an official migration, but being able to migrate the domain name and user objects would probably be good enough for my purposes.
B. Can I do this without another computer? Currently I'm considering turning his Server 2008 installation into a virtual machine and launching it in an instance on SBS 2011 to have them both "up" for the migration. Can I pull this off? Can you think of any snags I'm missing doing it this way?
TIA
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