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Migration Step Thirteen: You installed in migration mode!

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:34:00 GMT

And we finished the install and the "migrate to Windows SBS" is ready to go. Under the hood the FSMO roles have been added to this box and the SBS 2003 is no longer the king of the domain. [Meanwhile I have to take a break to wash my car so...(read more)

Migration Step Nine: Check the health of Exchange

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:02:00 GMT

c Optimize Exchange Server and mailboxes. Follow the instructions on pages 16 through 17 in the Microsoft migration document. c Empty the Deleted Items folder. c Archive older mail It can take a long time to migrate large Exchange Server mailboxes. It...(read more)

Migration Step Eight: Raising the functional level of AD

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:50:00 GMT

c Raise the functional level of the Active Directory domain and forest. Follow the instructions on pages 12 through 14 in the Microsoft migration document. To be fair this probably should have been done sooner in the steps, but it's still in the prelim...(read more)

Migration Step Six: Removing ISA

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:50:00 GMT

When I moved the SBS 2003 over to the (unsupported) HyperV platform, one of the things I had to do was to uninstall ISA 2004 and take the virtualized box back down to one nic. Just a reminder of the steps I took -- this is from the SBS 2008 migration...(read more)

Just a reminder of all of the key migration resources

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:43:00 GMT

Just a reminder of all of the key migration resources that I'll be referring to and using during these blog posts/dry run of migation that I'm doing. That first url -- www.sbsmigrationtips.com is actually a key SBS blog post entry that I got lazy...(read more)

Migration Step Seven: Checking Exchange is ready to go

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:34:00 GMT

We're back on our Migration blog post series (hint all of the Migration blog posts are tagged with "Migration" for easy reference). And now we're going to check and make sure our Exchange is ready to go: I. In the source domain, check...(read more)

Making sure you don't sync with the Parent

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:41:00 GMT

I have eventsentry.com on my existing SBS 2003 which also means it's now on my HyperV clone. So I kept getting a time change alert.. DATE / TIME 11/5/2009 9:36:21 PM MESSAGE The system time was changed. Process ID: 1368 Process Name: C:\WINDOWS\system32...(read more)

P to Ving with the Sysinternals tool

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:13:00 GMT

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx Testing this out. Have a HP ML370G4 that has a physical install of SBS 2003 on a raid/hardware system. Have a HyperV on an HP ML370G6. In a test run (where I screwed up because I didn't...(read more)

The most important backup of all

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:00 GMT

So before you run the source tool on your SBS 2003 box in addition to the normal backup. In addition to the possibly paranoid backup you need to do with a third party program like Storagecraft, Acronis, DriveImageXML (paid not free), make sure you do...(read more)

The video card RDP bug nailed me today

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:23:00 GMT

So I'd always heard about this, not seen this in action... well now I did today. Nvidia video driver and AFTER the installation of .NET family patch (that I had been holding off installing) I could no longer remote to a machine. I would rdp and the...(read more)

How to fix a potential security issue in QuickBooks 2007, 2008, and 2009.

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:51:00 GMT

How to fix a potential security issue in QuickBooks 2007, 2008, and 2009. See Web version . FIX FOR POTENTIAL ACTIVEX VULNERABILITY Dear Susan Bradley, We've recently released a fix to address a potential security vulnerability within QuickBooks....(read more)

Too much, too little, maybe just right?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:54:00 GMT

For the past two years since we started rolling out Vista, I've felt like Goldilocks. I can't find an antivirus software I like. Trend was my choice until it started putting a firewall in there that made it not quite right. Then I was testing...(read more)

Happy Halloween

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:12:00 GMT

Tonight to answer the door of the trick-or-treaters I'm asking the door as Danica Patrick's older, less sexy, sister that is a Mini Cooper race car driver. Okay so it's a stretch, I'll admit, but with a Mini Cooper racing shirt and a black...(read more)

>>> NEW TOOL: Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer <<<:

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:03:00 GMT

>>> NEW TOOL: Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer <<<: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnermsgexchange/thread/421c8eb2-7579-4806-a276-3aaeb90a10a4 Announcing the release of Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer for...(read more)

So what about those action pack licenses?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:20:00 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/10/30/mpan-program-closed.aspx So the bigger and more important question is ...what about the action pack license that was allowed to be purchased by CPAs as a result? Are they still licensed? Can they renew...(read more)

MPAN program closed

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:09:00 GMT

Dear valued MPAN member: We are writing to let you know that Microsoft ® Office Accounting will no longer be distributed by Microsoft after November 16, 2009. As such, MPAN membership will also be closed to new members effective November 16, 2009...(read more)

Folder view in Win7

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:30:00 GMT

So on the "production" win 7 one of the feedback items was that the file open menu didn't open up the file folders the way Vista used to http://www.windows7update.com/Windows7-Folder-Options.html So one of the settings I put back on the...(read more)

Searching for a bit of spam

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:14:00 GMT

Someone showed me this "trick" the other day. Google search on a web site, limiting the domain to just your domain and then search for "sex". http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=com.microsoft%3A*&q=sex++site%3Amsmvps...(read more)

Windows Vista Ultimate customers

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:27:00 GMT

While I applaud what Microsoft is doing in the retail space ( decrapifying the PCs to start with , offering deals on Home Premium and Professional - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/offers/ms-store-bundle.aspx , there's one other group of users that...(read more)

What's your RAID favorite?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:19:00 GMT

This weekend I'm just doing a play install and seeing what sort of RAID array I can build. RAID levels: Learn about RAID 50: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid5_gci1066983,00.html RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en...(read more)