Re: Migrating SBS servers

My suggestion is that you can't bill the customer for the cost.

The information that you get from www.sbsmigration.com is a tool, not a
billable expense. When you leave this customer you take the knowledge with
you, and leave nothing behind. When you purchase software for your
customer, you leave everything behind and take nothing with you. Hence, you
can bill the customer for the software... it is their software.

Would you bill your customer for your car, your usb key or your internet
connection at your office?

If this is the one and only time you ever move an AD Windows system from one
set of hardware to another, it will still be worth it, unless you are
willing to go through the pain of visiting each workstation in the domain
and disjoining and re joining them, and moving all their profiles.

Will you bill your customer for that?

If so, then what you are saying is "I, as a professional computer
consultant, cannot afford to give up the billable hours of doing this job
the hard way, but would rather nick my customer for it than pay for the tool
I need to get the job done in the shortest amount of time with the least
amount of effort and expense to the customer(s).

Regards,

Anna Clark



"Steve" <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can use the "free" method supported by Microsoft basically via ADMT.
You'll soon find out that free in this case can involve a lot of pain.
Therefore many of us do recommend a swing migration (www.sbsmigration.com)
as the cost is really minimal for all the tools, comprehensive
documentation, and support that Jeff supplies.

"Enis" <jack.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

One of my clients is running SBS on outdated hardware and we wish to
migrate to updated hardware. I have heard about a 'swing migration'
but client cannot afford the cost of this so is there any other way,
or do they have to bit the bullet on this one.

Cheers





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