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Your order should include an authorization number and you should have received an email from the VLSC prompting you to login or create a login to access your product and keys. It has different editions, and the Server edition is specially designed for Windows Server. Windows Server R2 Essentials.

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I just got my shinny new copy of Windows Server essentials, and was about to upgrade. But, it looks like there is not a direct upgrade path from essentials NOT R2 to Essentials.

Is there anyway to do an in-place upgrade without purchasing R2 or ? I was curious if there was any way to upgrade to a trial version of , just so I could upgrade that version to easily? If there is just no option at all, I also wondered could I do a clean upgrade and have my 20TB of Storage Spaces retained I cannot lose all that data! Remove all of the workstations from the domain Look it up.

But first: make sure you have the ability to log onto a local Administrator account for each PC. And know the user name and user folder currently in use, since you will need to migrate that profile back to that PC later use the “set” command from Command Prompt. Realize that the new server will ignore the existing user account profile even if user name and password and everything else are the same, and would normally create a new empty profile “I’ve lost everything” – but we have a workaround below.

Uninstall the Connector. Save all the data you want from the old server somewhere off that server. Unplug the old server from the network, repower routers and switches, and do setup of the new one on the network static IP. You can use the old domain name or not. But don’t ever plug the old server back into this network. Get it stable and updated and seeing the Internet. Several reboots. Create a SiteAdmin user account with Administrator privileges. Create any desired data folders other than default and start copying the saved data into them.

Add all the user accounts in the Dashboard of the new server that you use on the old server. Manually type in. You can set up groups now if you use them. You may have to check folder access for users and groups later, when the data is all moved over. When it asks for User, use your SiteAdmin login even though it says it isn’t safe. You don’t want a profile created for the workstation’s user yet.

When Connector is done, still log in with SiteAdmin. Get a great piece of free software called Profile Wizard and follow its instructions.

And the new user name that you created on the new server. This will set up this user on the domain using the old profile — so the desktop and My Documents etc. It can’t migrate saved passwords so those will have to be re-entered, e. Log in with this user and fix any maps and shortcuts.

Best to not map drives anymore, just use shortcuts some. I’ll let someone else chime in on the upgrade stuff for ya, but I do hope you realize that Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has completely killed off all of the “Essentials” features in that “shinny new copy of Windows Server Essentials” that you have sitting there. Everything that you’ve known and probably loved from previous versions of Windows Server Essentials is now gone. Windows Server Essentials is now just a lousy excuse of a server operating system with nothing whatsoever to do with the Essentials operating systems of days gone by.

It’s quite sad really. Windows Server Essentials – end of an era! If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. Looking at all this, yeah, I’m guessing it’s time to buy a 10TB external hard drive I just hope it’s not too tough to re-add all the computers to the domain and not have reset user accounts on the client computers, etc.

If anyone knows the answer to that question – how difficult is it to migrate settings or re-setup a server that also serves as my domain controller exactly the same The only way I have ever heard of successfully and reliably upgrading from Essentials is by using an expensive service specializing in this.

Even then, it does not go the way Microsoft implies it should. You need to downgrade if you want to keep Essentials best features. I do it with a new server from Dell that comes with the DVD and key code to do the clean install down UP grade to Essentials on the server that had preinstalled.

In your case using the same computer , the easiest would be to backup your data to an external drive before doing a fresh load of the newer OS. I’ve tried putting a data drive from the old, into the new server and there was some kind of serious problem reading it.

How can it be this hard to migrate a system to a new Server OS? I’m really just starting all over again. How would a company with 15K employees do this I work for a company this large??? I agree that a clean install has always been the best way to upgrade from my experience as well , but I would think by now they would have been able to create a configuration file that you could transfer over to the new Server.

Many other software packages I use have this. As a note for anyone who comes across this thread later, I finally had a weekend to work this And the steps outlined by Peter were pretty much right on.

ProfileWizard was a life saver! And, I had a 20TB “Storage Spaces” setup, that actually worked out of the box on server and that was after a reformatting of my main hard drive to install Server Essentials. So, my backing up everything to an external hard drive ended up being an unnecessary precaution. Office Office Exchange Server.

Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server Essentials. Sign in to vote. Friday, January 24, AM. This process works for me: 1. Best to not map drives anymore, just use shortcuts some Good luck. Wednesday, January 29, PM.

HI “I was curious if there was any way to upgrade to a trial version of , just so I could upgrade that version to easily? I still think we need to clean install wse I had no idea. Now I’m super disappointed Saturday, January 25, AM. Sunday, January 26, AM. HI Unfortunately ,although we clean install wse in the old physical server and with the same domain name ,we still need to jion all client computers to this new server by using essentials connector,there will be new profile for end user on their client computer.

Sunday, January 26, PM. Start from scratch is the only reasonable way. Ohh man HI I agree with Peter ,It will take some days to complete it. I hope eveything goes well. Good luck. Thursday, January 30, AM. Similar situation here. OK – enough griping. Back to my main question – how does a large enterprise migrate servers then? Thanks Apollo. Wednesday, February 26, AM. Thanks, again for the help Peter!

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