SBS 2008 migrate to VMWare ESXi

Hallo,
ich habe einen SBS 2008 auf veralteter Hardware. Ich möchte nun den SBS auf eine neue Hardware umziehen.
Nun stellt sich mir die Frage, ob ich das Ganze mit Symantec System Recovery auf die neue Hardware umziehe oder
einen VMWare ESXI free installiere. Hat da jemand Erfahrung ? Was ist besser ?
Vielen Dank für Eure Unterstützung
Rüdiger
Hi,
i have a sbs 2008 on old Hardware and want to move it to new Hardware.
So i have 2 Options:
1. Use Symantec System Recovery
2. Move it to VMWare ESXI
So which Option is the best ? As anyone
practical
experience ?
THX
Rüdiger

Hi Rüdiger,
Based on your description, I understand that you want to migrate SBS 2008 to a new hardware. Please refer to
following article and check if can help you.
Migrate Windows Small Business
Server 2008 to New Hardware
à
So which Option is the best?
It may be hard to say which the best option is. Meanwhile, please also refer to following thread and check
if can help you.
Migrate
SBS 2008 to new Hardware. Use bare metal restore or use migration answer file approach?
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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Hi there,
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In my haste to get our email and ftp services back up and running (which use Smartermail and Filezilla respectively instead of Exchange etc) I overlooked the fact that the new server had 3 NICs installed and not one and so restored SBS 2008 and loaded up new
drivers for those and other hardware that had changed (such as the graphics card and mobo. I have since removed the two additional NICs by disabling them on the mobo).
Whilst I got the server up and running again with email and ftp services, even though I currently don't use any AD related stuff directly I have since noted that if I try to say view a list of users that I had previously created via the SBS console, more often
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Common errors that I experience generally will say things like 'Current security connect is not associated with an Active Directory domain or forest' if I try to list users, or DC not found for domain "xyz.local' etc. I have been searching the net and
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Hi Dave,
Based on current situation, please run SBS BPA and fix all that it can find, then monitor the result. For more details, please refer to the following KB.
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Meanwhile, please refer to the following article and repair SBS console.
Repair the Windows SBS 2008 Console
By the way, I noticed that you had got some error messages (such as: “DC not found for domain” and so on). Would you please let me know complete error messages? In addition, when you migrate SBS 2008 to the new hardware, had you done any preparation for
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Accidently removed a mailbox on the SBS 2008 server during the migration from SBS 2003

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There is no special tool for your situation. While there is a tool called ADMT that you may see mentioned if you search enough, it isn't really well suited for what you want.
With that said, there is also no *need* for a tool as I've already said. Nor do you need to recreate the users and have mismatched SIDs. You will add the 2012 machine to your existing domain and make it a domain controller. Yes, that means you will have
two DCs (for a time.) This is how larger organizations handle multiple DCs all the time, and they obviously don't go and create the same user on each DC. That is where the domain replication comes in. Your new server will be a DC and will replicate
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Migrate SBS 2008 to new hardware

We have an SBS 2008 installation and are testing a disaster recovery solution by re-installing in Migration Mode.
Step 5 in the migration document from Microsoft discusses;
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We'd like to fully test this and get the backup box up and running before signing it off as a working solution.
Our concern is that, even if we isolate the test machine on a difference subnet from our production LAN, there is some kind of licensing consequence for our running box - via some kind of de-activation signal sent over the net, perhaps - should we continue
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Can anyone confirm or deny whether any kind of de-activation occurs? Perhaps paranoia, but thought best to check since we really can't have our live systems shut down.

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Migrate Windows Small Business Server 2008 to New Hardware
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks/archive/2012/09/07/transition-from-small-business-server-to-standard-windows-server.aspx which describes the entire process, though obviously in your case you don't need to worry about the Exchnage side of things.
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Migration SBS 2008 - Essentials 2012

Hi,
We plan to migrate a SBS 2008 to Essentials 2012 with Office 365 ( bad idea to remove exchange from essentials ).
If we plan to use the old SBS server later on, what shoud we install as OS on this machine : a Windows 2012 Standard ( wo CALS ) , ..... ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Dirk

Hi,
Do you mean you want to keep the old physical server with a new Windows Server OS installed in the domain after migration? If so, you could purchase any standard version Windows Server and
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Migrate SBS 2008 to Server 2012 R2 Std

Thank you for your reply. The Setup is a 2012 HV with three VM's = DC, Exchange and Terminal Server. The Exchange will be 2010. It was decided to stay with Emails on the Server by the company director, we don't require office 365
I think the migration of 2008 to 2012 dc should be fine, but it was migrating the exchange 2007 to exchange 2010 that I was not sure about, my notes I have were actually for 2003 sbs's that were going to use office 365 so that's why I was enquiring after the email migration
thanks

Hello
We have a SBS 2008 Server that is going to be migrated to Server 2012 R2. The 2012 has two virtual machines - one for the new Domain and the other is for email exchange. We have instructions for migrating a SBS 2003 Server to 2012 Server that we were told was successful - can I apply these same steps to a SBS 2008 Server? IT involves promotion 2012 to DC, migrating AD (FSMO, scheme master global catalog) and migrate dhcp.
for the emails, is there a MS guide to migrating SBS 2008 mailboxes to the 2012 R2 email server?
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Migrate SBS 2008 with exchange 2007 to office365

Hi, we have a sbs 2008 with exchange 2007 the boss got the idea to move the E-mail to office 365, i have done some research but still have some questions, now i am not an expert on exchange, could some one tell me if this is a straight operation going from
exchange 2007 to office 365, is it supported or do we have to move to exchange 2010 and then to office 365?
Thank you very much in advanced.

Yes, going from Exchange 2007 to Office 365 is supported. You want to run a Migration.
Check out this link for exact instructions on what to do for the migration:
http://help.outlook.com/en-US/140/ms.exch.ecp.emailmigrationwizardexchangelearnmore.aspx
Then, when you are ready to setup Outlook with Office 365, check out this link to make Outlook use the public Autodiscover rather than SBS Autodiscover:
http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2011/08/using-office-365-in-an-sbs-2008-environment-take-2/
I just did a cutover migration from SBS 2008 to Office 365 using both these websites and it went off very nicely.
Good luck on your migration.
Oh, and if you only use Office 365 for email, it is $4 a month per user.

Migration from exchange SBS 2008 to Microsoft exchange 20013

i have started an upgrade of an SBS 2008 to an exchange 2013
i installed the 2 server in coexistence and moved all mailboxes as well as all public folders
what should i do next to be able to decommission the SBS and turn it off completely
PS: our company does use third party certificate as all the users are local users on TS server
much appreciate it

Please follow the Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
which is web-based tool that asks you a few questions about your current environment and then generates a custom step-by-step checklist that will help you deploy different versions of Exchange Server for different types of scenarios.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/exchange/jj657516.aspx
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Has anyone completly migrated/moved SBS 2008 to Office 365 ?

Hello All,
We have a client with SBS 2008 and would like to moe all AD/ emails / data / possibly some 3rd party applications like QuickBooks (This is not confirmed yet) to office 365 and once moved would like to decommission the SBS 2008 box so from that
point onwards everything including AD authentication would be done via office 365.
I have seen articles/information about moving exchange/data etc. but not the whole infrastructure to office 365 and depend entirely on office 365 without any onsite servers.
Has anyone tested this method? if so please let me know your feedback.
Also what are the cons of depending solely on office 365 apart from the obvious , office365 or internet outages , lack of full control etc.
Regards,
Dhanushka

First off that's not possible. Unless the application can run natively inside SharePoint, Office 365 does not give you NTFS file share platform for which to install QuickBooks.
Email and SharePoint yes. Native file shares no.
What can be done however is look over to Azure. On Azure you can turn on Remote desktop services, host a file sharing server in Azure/then host desktops in azure, use the Essentials role to hook into Office 365.
But bottom line what you think can be done in 365, can't all be done in 365. It needs Azure.
http://blogs.msmvps.com/bradley/2014/09/04/no-office-but-still-need-a-server-something-to-think-about/
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How to move from vmware ESXi 5.5 to Hyper-V 2012 R2 on same hardware?

I have Vmware ESXi 5.5 Update 1 with two disks, called RAID0 (3.6 TB) and RAID5 (10.9 TB).
I am tired of having to rebuild ESXi every sixty days for home use so I am planning on moving to Hyper-V, but I'm a little nervous. I don't have swing kit, so will have to repurpose my existing 1 year old quite powerful machine (Intel i7 32 Gb RAM two sets
of RAID storage internal), 3 NICs. Features I need from VMware are:
Ability to snapshot and revert to snapshot (running and stopped VM)
Ability to move VMs between my different storage areas (RAID0 and RAID5)
Ability to set up internal networks to the Hyper-V host so I can set up virtual labs on their own virtual networks
USB pass through to the VM
Auto start VMs with the host.
Auto shut down VMs with the host.
Templating of OSs - mainly Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2, but also Centos 7. Can I convert my ESXi templates to Hyper-V?
Good performance from both Windows and Linux machines
Easy management from a workstation on the network.
Install Hyper-V to USB flash drive plugged in to the server.
Can Hyper-V do all that?
Also, I have a migration plan. Will this work?
In ESXi move all machines for migration from RAID5 to RAID0 storage.
Install Hyper-V on the host to USB flash drive (16 GB)
Format RAID5 storage so it can take vhds. (NTFS?)
Set up networks - have three NICs on the host.
Install management software on my workstation
Convert VMware vmx machines on RAID0 storage to vhd based machines on RAID5 storage. How to do this? My machines vary from v8,9 to vmx10.
Power on VMs and perform checks.
Any comments? I'm particularly concerned about the conversion process from VMware to Hyper-V and the reliability of it. Total size of VMs to convert is just under 3 TB.

Hi Mark. The short answer is yes to all. The more detailed answer is:
Make sure you're installing Windows 2012 R2 on the bare metal. All the following refers to 2012 R2.
I recommend you take some time and go through the
Hyper-V Best Practices Guide
Ability to snapshot and revert to snapshot (running and stopped VM) => yes, standard feature. Keep in mind this is meant to be a short term measure, not something you keep around for long time.
Ability to move VMs between my different storage areas (RAID0 and RAID5) => yes, storage migration is a standard feature that allows you to migrate a VM storage while the VM is running.
Ability to set up internal networks to the Hyper-V host so I can set up virtual labs on their own virtual networks => yes. An external vSwitch is one that's attached to a physical NIC. I recommend you review Hyper-V networking. It's a bit different than
VMWare.
USB pass through to the VM => not exactly. Some work around options exist, including sharing the USB drive on the host.
Auto start VMs with the host => yes, standard VM setting. You get to choose per VM whether to always start, start if it was already running, never start, or start with a given delay.
Auto shut down VMs with the host => yes (like save state) - defined in each VM setting
Templating of OSs - mainly Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2, but also Centos 7. Can I convert my ESXi templates to Hyper-V => yes, native in VMM, plenty of Powershell examples available online. Manual steps in Hyper-V Manager to re-use a
sys-prepped OS image is also available.
Good performance from both Windows and Linux machines => yes, depends mostly on hardware
Easy management from a workstation on the network => yes, from a Win 8.1 workstation, install RSAT
Install Hyper-V to USB flash drive plugged in to the server => yes. 16 GB is a bit small. I recommend a pair of mirrored 128GB SATA SSDs - should be inexpensive.
In ESXi move all machines for migration from RAID5 to RAID0 storage => All you need for migration is the VMDK files for each VM. VM should be offline.
Install Hyper-V on the host to USB flash drive (16 GB) => see recommendation about a pair of boot SSDs above.
Format RAID5 storage so it can take vhds. (NTFS?) => yes, NTFS, 64KB allocation unit
Set up networks - have three NICs on the host => in a single host environment / lab, you'll use 1 NIC on a single external vSwitch I guess. Or you can NIC team them then attach vSwitch to team.
Install management software on my workstation => RSAT on Win 8.1
Convert VMware vmx machines on RAID0 storage to vhd based machines on RAID5 storage. How to do this? My machines vary from v8,9 to vmx10. => try
MVMC 3
Power on VMs and perform checks. => no comment :)
Did I mention the
Hyper-V Best Practice Guide?
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