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Making those shares

One of the steps I kinda slid over was the process of recreating the shares from the old SBS 2003 and putting them in again on the SBS 2008. Now if I was a strict person at the office I'd give everyone one drive letter and be done with it. But we don't. And some of the drive letters/shares are...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Mon, Nov 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Tweaking monitoring

In the category of Migration extras , I'll add tweaking monitoring. You can add unique custom alerts to the existing monitoring on SBS 2008 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee407455(WS.10).aspx First you need to ensure that the existing monitoring emails out notifications. Go into network...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Mon, Nov 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
The home stretch

So we're down to the home stretch in the migration of SBS 2003 to SBS 2008... Enable folder redirection on the Destination Server Migrate SQL Server data Migrate Terminal Service licensing server Before we uninstall Exchange, there's three categories left.... First off I don't do folder redirection...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Sun, Nov 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
MUing a box

When you build a box I prefer to manually use Microsoft update for that very first 'getting up to snuff' process. So the first thing I do is ensure that the box has been flipped over to use Microsoft Update and not Windows update. Windows Update only patches windows, Microsoft update offers up...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Sun, Nov 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Since I'm service packing my hair tonight...

Since I'm service packing my hair tonight.... I figure tonight is the night for patching the newly built SBS 2008. A recent blog post reminded me that you actually can't apply a patch too soon... One year with SBS 2008 » Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog » Blog Archive: http://projectdream...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Sat, Nov 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Migration bump: User role wizard

Well I hit a bump. The user role wizard is not liking something here... The cryptic error of MessagingManagement Unexpected error occurred. And the help box goes ot a "you have encountered a user role error, for more information see "Troubleshooting Windows Small Business Server 2008"...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Fri, Nov 13 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Allowing two users on the box in the TS session

So one thing you'll note is that default to the server (and I think Server 2008 in general?) is a one admin TS session at a time. To change this do the following: From Start Run tsconfig.msc {click through the UAC} Double click on "Restrict each user to a single session" Unclick the box...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Customizing the RWW page

To customize the appearance of the Remote Web Workplace Open the Windows SBS Console . On the navigation bar, click Shared Folders and Web Sites . Right-click Remote Web Workplace , and then click View site properties . The Remote Web Workplace Properties page appears. Click the Customization tab. Do...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
A little smarthosting

Setting up your SMTPauthing or smarthosting. If you use a mail hygiene provider they may (probably do) want you to bounce your email out through them. This allows you to scan the email outbound as well as offload that duty to them. Normally my smart host goes to www.ownwebnow.com 's servers but for...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
There are some key steps to remember for Outlook Anywhere...

There are some key steps to remember for Outlook Anywhere... 1. You can merely get a godaddy or cheap cert and it will work as long as the srv records up are at the DNS hoster http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/02/setting-up-an-external-autodiscover-record-for-sbs-2008/ 2. You can test the outlook anywhere...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Changing the domain name in the email

SeanDaniel.com - Small Business Server and Other Technology: Hosting Multiple Domains on SBS 2008/Exchange 2007: http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2008/10/hosting-multiple-domains-on-sbs.html For many small firms they have multiple email accounts. We already pointed to that blog post for how you can add additional...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Moving public folders

Migration step twenty: Moving Public Folders - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA": http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/11/09/migration-step-twenty-moving-public-folders.aspx The token supplied to the function is invalid. ID no:80090308 Exchange System Manager - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Wed, Nov 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
So when you build a new server

... attach any usb external drives you plan to have attached and.... reboot it. Yup make sure that when the box reboots that it comes back up all the way and doesn't stop due to the usb hard drive being there. It's also the reason why I'm not bitlockering my server (regardless of the fact...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Wed, Nov 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
The token supplied to the function is invalid. ID no:80090308 Exchange System Manager

From the "I did not know that but it's good to know category", the reason I got hit with The token supplied to the function is invalid when trying to move the Public Folders Is that I have a public SSL cert (godaddy) and per the expertise of Eriq Neale of www.thirdtier.net who said that...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Tue, Nov 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
About that activation

About now you've figured out that my three day grace period has come and gone. The one where when you move the server from the hardware to another hardware that it demands activation within three days. In order to do this test run I've obviously reactivated the moved box by now. And since I'm...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Tue, Nov 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Eseutil before the Move Mailbox

[Note: if you are wondering why the mailbox I am showcasing has the name of Chris Almida and that name is kinda familiar he's the Migration PM and I have a test mailbox on the server with his name] The funky thing about the move mailbox command is that it sits there for a while and then all of a...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Mon, Nov 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
So what updates get installed when you click 'yes' to updates during the SBS 2008 installer

The only updates at this time that get installed when you say 'yes' do that update screen as SBS 2008 gets installed are security updates. There are no installer updates offered up at this time. There are no installer only updates that I've seen period. If there were such updates, I'd...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Mon, Nov 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Just a reminder of all of the key migration resources

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 enough to get a url redirect so I could find that...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Sat, Nov 7 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
Holy cow this really works!

And I'm not talking about the cleaning products either! http://www.holycowproducts.com/ I'm talking about the Disk2VHD tool here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx So merely using that... we first make VHDs of our existing physical box. Mind you the first time I tried...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Thu, Nov 5 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras
A bsod in the child?

Now here's an interesting situation... I have a new server I'm moving to and I've been letting it "bake" as an HyperV hosted SBS box for a few days and I noticed that it blue screened (the SBS, not the HyperV parent) on me. So we pull out our handy dandy Peter Gallagher blog post...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Mon, Nov 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Migration Extras

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