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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

Fourteen steps of migration


There is an excellent migration guide from Microsoft and a help file in SBS 2008, which formed a part of the basis for the migration steps in this book. While they provide a good start, I found several items that need additional explanation, alternative solutions, or more information to complete them successfully. That is one of the purposes of these chapters.

Note

The Microsoft Migration whitepaper can be found at http://davidoverton.com/r.ashx?X.

There are fourteen steps that you need to complete to prepare your server for migration and these are as follows:

  1. Plan the migration process including how you will move third-party applications.

  2. Communicate plan and impact to users and get an agreement on impact

  3. Check the health of SBS 2003 Active Directory.

  4. Back up the existing server.

  5. Change network configuration to match SBS 2008 design requirements.

  6. Update software on SBS 2003.

  7. Change Active Directory functionality level.

  8. Confirm SBS 2003 is currently configured at best-practice...