Configure the Internet Address
Starting the Configure
The Internet Address task displays a page.
The page also has a link to a help page providing information on how to
distribute the server’s self-signed certificates to remote users.
The Migrate Network Settings task displays a page, shown in Figure 5,
from which you can migrate DNS forwarder settings from your old server
running Windows SBS to your new one and display information about migrating
certificates. Both of these tasks are optional, depending on whether
you have configured the DNS server on your existing network to use forwarders and whether you have certificates you need to migrate.
A forwarder is a DNS
server that receives name resolution requests from other DNS servers,
usually on another network, and takes responsibility for completing the
entire name resolution process before returning a response to the
original server. For example, you might want to configure your DNS
Server service to forward requests to your ISP’s DNS server. This can
reduce the amount of your Internet bandwidth consumed by DNS traffic.
If you have configured your existing Windows SBS server to use DNS forwarders, clicking the Launch the DNS forwarders migration task link transfers those settings to your new server running Windows SBS 2011.
Migrate Exchange Mailboxes and Settings
The required Migrate
Exchange Mailboxes and Settings task migrates all the Exchange Server
mail stores and public folders from your source server to your new
server running Windows SBS 2011. Depending on how many users you have
on your network and how much mail they have stored, this procedure can
take a long time. Clicking the Migrate Exchange Server mailboxes and public folders link on the Migrate Exchange Mailboxes And Settings page, shown in Figure 6, displays a web page containing instructions for migrating the various Exchange Server elements.
Migrate Users’ Shared Data
Windows SBS 2011 provides no wizard or other automated mechanism for
migrating the contents of users’ shared folders from the old server to
the new one. The Migrate
Users’ Shared Data page provides a link to a help screen that describes
the procedures by which you can complete the following basic steps
manually:
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On your new server running Windows SBS 2011, create and share folders corresponding to the shared folders on your source server.
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Note the permissions on the source server’s shared folders and duplicate them on the new shared folders that you created.
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Copy the files in the shared folders on your source server to the shared folders you created on your new server.
Migrate SharePoint Website
Migrating your
existing SharePoint website and its database is a complex procedure
that is described on a help screen that appears when you click the link
on the Migrate Your Internal Web Site page.
If you have the Windows SBS Fax service installed and running on your server, the Migrate Fax Data page, shown in Figure 7,
enables you to transfer the existing fax data from your old server to
your new one. You can transfer the data to the default folders for the
Fax service or to your SharePoint database.
To migrate your fax data, wait for any fax transmissions
currently in progress to finish and unplug your fax modem or modems.
Then select the Click to start migrating your fax data link to begin the transfer.
