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.
Figure 5. The Migrate Network Settings page in the Migration Wizard.
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.
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.
Figure 6. The Migrate Exchange Mailboxes And Settings page in the Migration Wizard.
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:
On your new server running Windows SBS 2011, create and share folders corresponding to the shared folders on your source server.
Note the permissions on the source server’s shared folders and duplicate them on the new shared folders that you created.
Copy the files in the shared folders on your source server to the shared folders you created on your new server.
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.
Figure 7. The Migrate Fax Data page in the Migrate To Windows Small Business Server 2011 Wizard.
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.