With Windows 2008 R2, Microsoft shipped the product with a series of free migration tools PLUS they setup a Web URL where you can download new migration best practice guides and conversion tools (see ).
![]() Microsoft Print Migrator Server 2008 How To Migrate ToSo why is Microsoft providing free tools and free guidance on how to migrate to Windows 2008 R2 The big reason is that Windows 2008 R2 is a 64-bit ONLY operating system.Microsoft Print Migrator Server 2008 Upgrade From OlderFor organizations that have been running 32-bit Windows for years and frequently just did an inplace upgrade from older to new versions of the operating system, Windows 2008 R2, being 64-bit does NOT provide an inplace migration path from 32-bit anything to Windows 2008 R2.
Microsoft Print Migrator Server 2008 Series Of FreeThus, you MUST do a server to server migration from Windows 2003 32-bit to Windows 2008 R2 64-bit. Afraid this might be a barrier to migrations, Microsoft worked really hard to come up with a series of migration tools. In 2-years of early adopter experience working with Windows 2008 R2 and the past many months since Windows 2008 R2 RTMd, weve found that Microsoft got lucky with the timing release of Windows 2008 R2. The marketplace has not only (for the most part) accepted and have adopted 64-bit as the standard server platform in datacenters, but organizations are migrating all physical servers to virtual servers as part of the process. So very few organizations are even considering taking a 5-yr old or 8-yr old 32-bit PHYSICAL Windows 2003 server and do an inplace upgrade, instead, organizations are building out new Windows servers as guest sessions of virtual servers (either Hyper-V or VMware). So the whole barrier to migration seems to be a non-issue for organizations. ![]() Certificate of Authority Migration: this is a new one, I just reviewed it a couple weeks ago, helps you migrate your Certificate Server off a Windows 2003 or 2008 box, to a new Windows 2008 R2 box yet keep all of your certificates, policies, configurations, etc. These tools can be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system from the Add Features Wizard in Server Manager as well as new tools as well as updated tools can be downloaded off the link noted previously. I will cover my favorite migration tool in my next posting titled Migrating DHCP to Windows 2008 R2. I really like this tool as it allows an organization to not only migrate a physical Windows 2003 (or 2008) DHCP server to a virtual (or physical) Windows 2008 R2 server, but it also migrates over all DHCP settings including scopes AND including leases The migration of leases is a huge thing. If you have say 500 users all with DHCP addresses assigned to them, in the past when you replaced a DHCP server you had to play the game of changing the DHCP lease period so that leases expire in say 4-hours so you could slip in a new DHCP server without having DHCP address conflicts (where the new DHCP server issued leases that conflicted with the old leases issued previously by the old DHCP server). With this migration tool, it extracts DHCP leases from the old server and migrates them to the new server so that when the new Windows 2008 R2 server comes online, it knows about all previous DHCP leases and continues on doing its job as a DHCP server. ![]()
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