THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" - All Comments

re: Holy cow this really works!

bradley — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:31 GMT

Because it doesn't. It doesn't track like that, and there's no code going back to the original box to zap it out of the sky.

I reactivated, it does not impact the existing running box one bit.

re: Holy cow this really works!

Dean — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:49:04 GMT

"as in it will not suck over the activation from the running box"

How did you know that ? I thought the whole point of activation was that Microsoft was supposed to be able to tell if the same piece of software was running on different hardware and shut down any install other than the first one.

re: Holy cow this really works!

Philip Elder — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:56:56 GMT

Susan,

If SA was placed on the original OEM license within 90 days of purchase (I think that is the right number), then your OEM license becomes portable.

SA specific:

blog.mpecsinc.ca/.../software-assurance-time-limit-after-oem.html

And Erig Ligman on transfer rights:

blogs.msdn.com/.../5821322.aspx

And even a video:

blogs.msdn.com/.../539953.aspx

Philip

re: Holy cow this really works!

Nick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:42:46 GMT

Neat tool (technet.microsoft.com/.../ee656415.aspx). I've been skimming through the some forums and have seen people run p2v's using VMware Converter to ESX/ESXi with mixed success on SBS. I see that SBS 2008 is supported on Hyper-V - anyone know if it's supported on ESXi as well?

re: Making sure you don't sync with the Parent

Jake — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:05:13 GMT

I've found in the past that turning this feature off dose not always work so I always disable the Hyper-V time sync service.

I also run this on my 'PDC'

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update

net stop w32time && net start w32time

and this on my other servers.

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update

net stop w32time && net start w32time

I've had people messing with times in the past that has created many headaches for me. Following these steps normally get me out of trouble :)

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re: P to Ving with the Sysinternals tool

John Currie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:15:20 GMT

SBS 2008 is even finckier with this as it only want 1 NIC.

I removed the ghost nics through the registry, rebooted and ran the "fix my network" wizard.

This was a P2V and is now running in production.

re: P to Ving with the Sysinternals tool

Ben Krause — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:05:51 GMT

Another tool that does this (a little more automated) is the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

I had used it once before to P to V an SBS 2003 box to a Hyper-V machine running Server 2008. It captured the entire system, shut down the old system and started the new one for me without any troubles.

Recently I did the same thing to P to V a 2003 server to a Server 2008 32but running Virtual Server 2005 R2. I had some troubles this time but it was related to TCPOffloading being enabled on the server 2008. Once turned off it went flawlessly.

I think you can use SCVMM as a trial to get the conversion done, then use Virtual Server 2005 R2 to manage it.

re: The most important backup of all

Chris Knight — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:45:33 GMT

And the Public Folders backup to PST comes in a close second for when the Public Folder replication fails to work properly.

Backups that I like to do for migration work are as follows:

System State

Full Image Backup

SQL Server database backups

SharePoint Site backups/exports

Exchange mailbox backups to PST

Exchange Public Folder backups to PST

ISA Configuration backups (not so important now)

IIS Metabase backups

IIS Virtual Server configuration exports

Manual Shadow Copy snapshots on all drives

Certificate exports for local profiles, service accounts and computer accounts

Registry hive exports

LDIF dump of Active Directory

The goal being to have the same data available in different formats to mitigate recovery (either forwards or backwards) depending on how pear-shaped things can get.

The really useful ones have been the SharePoint Site exports, IIS Virtual Server config exports, registry hive exports and LDIF dumps.

re: At what point in time did the technet content pages turn into "the lost souls of support" pages?

Jenny — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:17:47 GMT

It's like the broken window theory -- if one window is broken, it encourages more broken windows. Removal (instead of adding comments to redirect) would probably help with the search problem as well.

Maybe a disclaimer or some other buffer page that says, "Remember -- if you have a question, post it on x, y, or z to ensure it gets answered"

- Jenny

re: Pre-migration steps

Jenny — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:54:04 GMT

Thanks for this -- we've had a few questions related to SBS migration lately and I think our users will find this useful!

Thanks,

Jenny

re: The most important backup of all

Jenny — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:25 GMT

Haha, just to be clear, what is the most important backup? I'm not sure the graphic was completely clear. =)

Thanks for the tip, Scott!

Jenny

re: The most important backup of all

Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:59:48 GMT

Just wanted to add Macrium Reflect ($39.99 or free version) to the image based backup solutions. I used to use DriveImageXML but I like Reflect a lot more...

re: MPAN program closed

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:09:36 GMT

Any news on what will happen with MPAN members' Action Pack subscriptions?

Will Accountancy firms still be able to sign up as partners to get an Action Pack and use of it?

re: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7:

Albert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:45:26 GMT

Hi Sonic,

After installing the RSAT, don't forget to enable it on the Add/Remove software features:

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Programs.

In the Programs and Features area, click Turn Windows features on or off.

If you are prompted by User Account Control to enable the Windows Features dialog box to open, click Continue.

In the Windows Features dialog box, expand Remote Server Administration Tools.

Select the remote management tools that you want to install.

Click OK.

re: Searching for a bit of spam

Dean — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:23:23 GMT

Can you explain how that stuff gets there in the first place ? I don't understand. I need to patch my stupid.

re: The scariness of on premises

Dean — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:16:18 GMT

I hate HP's insight manager. The code is WAY to complicated and buggy. It's like it was programmed by someone who writes software for mainframes instead of small servers.

re: UAC on a Server

Dean — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:10:42 GMT

"patch your stupid"

I Love That ! ! ! ! !

It's so true with us humans in any situation.

re: On the Source server, make sure the Active Directory is healthy

Tyler Wisenburg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:02 GMT

Susan, isn't NetDiag missing from 2008? Is there a way to get this same functionality from DCDiag on our '08 boxes?

re: On the Source server, make sure the Active Directory is healthy

cseiter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:40:21 GMT

Just got done using this tool as a precursor to Exchange 2007. Very helpful as it put links to the kb articles that could fix the issues.