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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

Migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 on the same server


Before I delve into the detail of the migration, I wanted to cover the subject of a single box upgrade in slightly more detail, where you load SBS 2008 onto the SBS 2003 hardware. Provided the existing hardware is up to scratch, this is possible.

You have two choices here. One is to use Hyper-V to create two virtual machines on the same system, one for SBS 2003 and the other for SBS 2008. The other is to move the SBS 2003 system to a virtual machine, temporarily, during the course of the migration.

Both of these solutions require a very good understanding of virtualisation technology, but I will describe the processes briefly for each scenario.

Migration with Hyper-V running SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 on the same system

Your system will need to conform to the minimum requirements of Hyper-V and have at least 6 GB of memory in the system as well as two additional disks. You need to feel confident that the server is capable of running for the...