Essential Exchange

In May of 2008, I wrote the article SBS 2003 Hardware Migration/Upgrade . Since then, I've been asked many times about my process for doing a SBS 2003 hardware upgrade. In general, I just have to say "I follow the steps". As I recommended in my original article, if the Microsoft white paper...

I've reported on a number of occaisions about attempting reboots and those reboots just "hanging" until the server was power-cycled (or until you could execute a "shutdown" command from another computer in the environment - not always easy when connecting remotely!). If you want...

This weekend I had the opportunity to upgrade the hardware for one customer. The special thing about this upgrade is that the customer is running SBS 2003; and the goal was to replace the SBS 2003 server. SBS is Microsoft's Small Business Server, which is created for small companies that have from...