Book Image

Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By : David Overton
Book Image

Small Business Server 2008 - Installation, Migration, and Configuration

By: David Overton

Overview of this book

Small Businesses need to capitalize on the investments they make in IT to drive the business forward. SBS 2008 is uniquely positioned to deliver, but a poor implementation becomes a hindrance rather than a benefit to your business. Well implemented solutions enable your business to appear larger, yet more dynamic than many enterprises. It's easy to get Small Business Server 2008 up and running when you've got this book to hand. It helps you in a clear and friendly manner to understand how to implement SBS 2008 inside your business in a way that matches your business needs. The author's experience enables him to share a tried and tested path to deliver the business benefits without becoming bogged down in unnecessary details that are not relevant to small businesses. SBS 2008 is a fantastic investment for Small Businesses to make towards a well managed and highly functional IT solution in their business. This book is the culmination of many years advising small business owners and consultants on the recommend, tried and tested path to implement small business technology from Microsoft. Through this book you will gain an understanding of the features you can choose to use and then how to securely implement the server to deliver them. It will guide you through the installation and configuration process with the help of step-by-step instructions and plentiful screenshots. It will also explain how you can benefit from the collaboration tools based on SharePoint and how you can protect all your business data with a back-up process that covers anything from deleted files to a fire in the office. Imagine how great you'll feel when your Small Business Server 2008 is ready and working, and you can get back to surfing the Internet!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Small Business Server 2008 Installation, Migration, and Configuration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Migrating email from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007


Completion of this section will move all the mail from the SBS 2003 system to SBS 2008. It can take quite some time and includes a number of checks to try to ensure integrity between the systems. It is also the first of our tasks that once again requires activity on both the SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 systems.

Starting Migration on SBS 2008

On the SBS 2008 system, select Migrate Exchange mailboxes and settings and then click on Next from the main screen.

Clicking on the Migrate Exchange Server mailboxes and public folders link will provide you with advice and guidance on what to do. I've expanded on that in this section.

The second link What happens to e-mail flow while I am migrating Exchange Server data and settings? explains that mail should continue to flow while you are working on this task; however, I've experienced the server not receiving mail during a migration before. Rather than trusting mail will continue to arrive, I would set the...