A little background: I am an accountant who bought out a firm a couple years ago. They had an old file server (RAID 5), which ran fine. It was getting low on space (we all know how well windows does when it gets low). I bought replacement drives that were 2X larger...but couldn't get the server to recognize them as larger. The company who ran his IT and setup that particular HP server couldn't get them to be recognized either. In the end, I virtualized the server as a temporary solution onto one of my old media servers.
Has anyone updated from 2003 (for small business) to 2012 R2? I have tried to follow about 30+ different tutorials and seem to always hit a point where my 2003 is missing the files that are listed in the tutorials, for 2012 R2. I have attempted to use all the 'recommended' software by microsoft. I have done all the recommended updates for the transition too.
I am at my wits end with this crap. I am just not sure how I should go about migrating it. The office runs on this domain with 5 computers plus a printer. Nothing crazy. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
Would my best bet be to do a backup and restore to 2008 and then to 2012?
Has anyone updated from 2003 (for small business) to 2012 R2? I have tried to follow about 30+ different tutorials and seem to always hit a point where my 2003 is missing the files that are listed in the tutorials, for 2012 R2. I have attempted to use all the 'recommended' software by microsoft. I have done all the recommended updates for the transition too.
I am at my wits end with this crap. I am just not sure how I should go about migrating it. The office runs on this domain with 5 computers plus a printer. Nothing crazy. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
Would my best bet be to do a backup and restore to 2008 and then to 2012?