SBS2003 Migration Document -- Answer file issue

Hello all,
I have been working on a SBS2003 to SBS2011 migration. I am following the migration document v12.05.04 and I am stuck on Page 17. I have created the answer file as documented, but SBS2011
will not recognize it. After doing some searching, it appears that SBS2011 only accepts a file called "sbsanswerfile.xml", but the documentation describes a "cfg.ini" file.
And ideas what is up with this? Documentation error? Should I just create a similar file in the xml format?
Thanks. -Cheers, Peter.

Hi Peter,
Please confirm whether you refer to the migration guide “Migrating
Windows SBS 2003 to Windows SBS 2011 Essentials”.
If you use this document as reference. Please make sure that you will migrate SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 Essentials
(not SBS 2011 Standard). Meanwhile, please check if you have missed any step.
If this issue still persists, when
SBS2011 Essentials didn’t recognize the answer file, please let me know the complete error message that you can get.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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Yes definitely should see it but its not coming up (I don't think) when I log out of 2nd user and into the main account. Opening finder in the 2nd account, I can obviously find the public folder because thats where I dropped all the files, but when in the main account, it can't be found. The only public folder that comes up is the folder for that account (main account) and it does not display files I'm looking for. Frustrating....
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I set up my new computer using the apple ID i always use, and then later migrated all my files from my old mac book to the same new one, but under a different user (same ID). how do i consolidate the two users on my new mac book?

i set up my new computer using the apple ID i always use, and then later migrated all my files from my old mac book to the same new one, but under a different user (same apple ID). how do i consolidate the two users on my new mac book?

Well if you use the Finder Go menu to Computer, a window opens up double click on your boot drive and then on Users folder, open the other user folder and open Public and drop your files into DropBox
When you do this it will copy them and change the permissions and user assigned to it, so log into the other user and place them into your respective normal folders.
Once you have all your files over and don't need the old user, use System Preferences > Accounts to delete it if you wish, however it's good two Admin accounts on the machine in case something bad happens in the other. Some people for security reasons on use a Standard account for most uses and a emergency Admin account.
One can still do most Admin things in Standard user.

SBS2003 Migration Document -- Answer file issue

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