I had a series of posts on the topic of migrating from SBS to Office 365 and Windows Server a while back, and I’ve been getting a number of requests for a “summary” post with links to all the articles. I get a few people each week emailing me about a single post with comments like, “But what about moving FSMO roles?” etc. Ah, that’s because you haven’t read the other posts in this series. So here it is:
Alex, Thanks for all the great articles you’ve posted. Am planning a migration of SBS2011 to M365 + on-prem DC for file&print, LoB app. (tried to convince full cloud but got shot down) Any issue going directly from SBS2011 to 2019 (instead of 2016)? Thnx!
Honestly I am not sure–I have not once installed a 2019 server. I guess I have never been shot down for pushing 100% cloud… usually customer is the one begging to go serverless, anyway, and I am one of the only folks who consistently says “No problem, we can do it.” If you can go from 2008R2 to 2019 then it would be the same for SBS 2011. I am not sure if that is true.
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Alex, Thanks for all the great articles you’ve posted. Am planning a migration of SBS2011 to M365 + on-prem DC for file&print, LoB app. (tried to convince full cloud but got shot down) Any issue going directly from SBS2011 to 2019 (instead of 2016)? Thnx!
Honestly I am not sure–I have not once installed a 2019 server. I guess I have never been shot down for pushing 100% cloud… usually customer is the one begging to go serverless, anyway, and I am one of the only folks who consistently says “No problem, we can do it.” If you can go from 2008R2 to 2019 then it would be the same for SBS 2011. I am not sure if that is true.