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SBS 2008 Partner Onboarding - Montreal

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 16:38 by Beatrice

A good question came up during the Montreal SBS 2008 Partner Onboarding session. One partner said "hey, with all the steps I have to perform in the SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration, if I have a small customer on SBS 2003 that may only have 5 to 10 employees, I'd rather do a clean install instead of a migration." Personally I don't feel that there are too many step in the migration process, but I can also see the point that one would rather start out with a clean box, especially if the user number is low. - What do you think?

Also, my Montreal friends, I did go to La Magie des lanternes on Tuesday morning and got rained on in that freezing weather! I really did enjoy the lanterns and thank you so much for pointing it out. As well as I have a new found appreciation for Florida sunshine. :)

 

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November 5. 2008 21:16

Chris Knight

Number of users is the wrong metric to use when deciding migration vs clean install. The right metric is configuration complexity.
If you have multiple SharePoint and SQL databases that leverage Windows authentication, a large number of GPOs and/or a large number of AD objects, then you'll be considering migrating.
I have a 25-user client that I'll be doing a clean install for + USMT for profile migration as it's a very basic installation. I have a 5-user client for whom I'll be doing a migration for as the installation is considerably more complex and the migration will take less time than configuring from scratch.

Chris Knight

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