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Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 transition / migration to Server Standard 2008 R2

(First appeared here)

This is an action plan from Microsoft tech support.  I’m going to be testing this in my Lab over the next week or so.  I’ll post any significant notes or corrections that I find.  

1.       Run ADprep on SBS 2008 with the Windows 2008 R2 disk.

·         Insert the media for Windows Server 2008 R2 into the Small Business Server 2008 server.

·         Browse to the following folder:

·         <DVD drive >:\Sources\Adprep> Adprep /forestprep

·         Press C, and then press ENTER. Wait for the process to complete.

·         <DVD drive >:\Sources\Adprep>Adprep /domainPrep 

·         when this step completes, you should receive a message: “Adprep successfully update the domain-wide Information” Read more »

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Will Windows 7 support 20 concurrent network connections?

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It looks like Windows 7 will support up to 20 users connected to a share or network sessions. That is great news for small to medium size companies that use Windows XP to share files. That’s double of what  Windows XP will handle.

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