Re: Project Abandoned

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I personally haven't used SwingIT but seriously considered it. Even though
this is extra work, moving over the old fashion way seems to be more
straight-forward approach. Of course my experience so far has been less than
20 workstation but if I had any more than that, I would definitely give
Jeff's way a chance. The visiting workstations and profile issues is very
tedious and time consuming. If you can sell them that they will lose all
customizations in Windows and they need to start "fresh" on each workstation
then migrations to a new server would be a lot simpler. :-)

1. Use exmerge to dump all email. Outlook client for Public Folders dump, if
used.
2. Find workstation that has the most hard drive space and copy all files
from old server to it. Might have to split it up between multiple
workstations, if quite a bit of stuff. I also do a tape backup but that
would be my last resort.
3. Can install new server away from client's site and get it almost 100%
configured, bring it on in.
4. Setup workstations with saved info first and copy all files back.
5. Use exmerge to import all email
6. Join all workstations to workgroup and then add to new domain.
7. Tweak (hopefully this won't eat your lunch) :-)

Yeah you lose your weekend....but the concept if fairly simple.

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Rick Faria - MCSE / A+
RDF Technical Services - www.rdfts.com
Email: support at rdfts dot com


"Bill Glidden" <billyg1943@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have decided to abandon at least one of my swing projects due to my
inability to cope with a succession of serious issues which has left me
feeling spent, exhausted and inadequate to the task.

I'm not crying. I just want to make sure that no considering taking this
journey thinks that doing a swing migration is a trivial excercise. It
also turns out that I wasn't as skilled as I thought and even with
excellent help from this forum and sbsmigration.com I still couldn't
manage to pull it off.

Thanks to all for your help.



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