We have very quickly out-grown our Small Business Server 2008 current hardware and have decided to purchase a complete new server.
What is the best and easiest way to move the server to new hardware?
It is one complete box, we do not have any SAN's or any complicated setup. We do have a couple of SQL databases running on the server and we also use Exchange.
I'm sure there must be some easy way to move everything 🙂
Would creating a backup (Using Windows Server backup) and then restoring it on the new server work?
Best Answer
Microsoft publishes a guide called "Migrating to Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Windows Small Business Server 2008" which describes the process of setting up an answer file and performing a migrate-install on the new hardware. You can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=31CBC5DD-21B1-4A6E-9A9D-740CE7605448&displaylang=en