Re: Migrating SBS servers

whereas my opinion differs. I factor the cost of transport, equipment and
internet into the charges against my clients. For the majority of work this
cost is shared between all clients.

Should I perform a migration in the future I will purchase a kit (I have
performed swinglike migration without kit), not as much for the defined
process as the support should it be necessary, basically, insurance for that
particular project. I suppose I will offer the client a choice 'I can do
this flying by the seat of my pants, in which case interruption may be more
than minimal, or _you_ can buy insurance'. This is an exceptional cost that
many clients do not, at this time, require.

I s'pose the difference is in the why. I'm purchasing insurance but know the
process, another person may not know the process.

"Anna Clark" <anna.clark(remove this)@verizon.net> wrote in message
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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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