Hard work
We upgraded the server in the office over the weekend, and needless to say there were teething troubles. In spades. Despite an expert computer wizard (Murdo) trying to sort the complexities of what we do.
The new SBS 2009 server is great - much higher speed and capacity - but all the workstations needed to be adapted and a few needed upgrading from XP Home to XP Professional, which then caused their own issues.
The key program we use has an SQL server set-up, which required to be reinstalled and then migrated from the old server. Thankfully the old server has been left connected to the network as the on-site daily backup to backup the RAID drives on the new server, and getting the data from one to the other took a mere 1 hour, after 3 hours of working out just how to access the old system.
That was three hours of stress, panic, growling and general despair.
Some of the newer workstations were running the key piece of software, but that was because they were looking at the old SQL installation on the old server and running the old database whilst the upgraded machines couldn't find anything.
The printers all need re-configuring (twice) and I still haven't worked out how to add one of the printers twice - once as simplex and once as duplex - I did it before, but I can't remember how!
Tomorrow will bring some more fine tuning and redirection of software to the new domain from the old workgroup, but hopefully less swearing.
I think I need to buy the staff a drink or three after two days of make do, whilst some major £1m payrolls had to be run, but hopefully by Friday it will all be running smoothly.
Now to break the news to them that this was all because there is another very major IT and service enhancement on the near horizon.
The new SBS 2009 server is great - much higher speed and capacity - but all the workstations needed to be adapted and a few needed upgrading from XP Home to XP Professional, which then caused their own issues.
The key program we use has an SQL server set-up, which required to be reinstalled and then migrated from the old server. Thankfully the old server has been left connected to the network as the on-site daily backup to backup the RAID drives on the new server, and getting the data from one to the other took a mere 1 hour, after 3 hours of working out just how to access the old system.
That was three hours of stress, panic, growling and general despair.
Some of the newer workstations were running the key piece of software, but that was because they were looking at the old SQL installation on the old server and running the old database whilst the upgraded machines couldn't find anything.
The printers all need re-configuring (twice) and I still haven't worked out how to add one of the printers twice - once as simplex and once as duplex - I did it before, but I can't remember how!
Tomorrow will bring some more fine tuning and redirection of software to the new domain from the old workgroup, but hopefully less swearing.
I think I need to buy the staff a drink or three after two days of make do, whilst some major £1m payrolls had to be run, but hopefully by Friday it will all be running smoothly.
Now to break the news to them that this was all because there is another very major IT and service enhancement on the near horizon.
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That surely must be a contender for one of the most boring posts in the history of blogging.
Are you running an SQL database on your vertical setup?
Yes, two of our major pieces of software require SQL databases, and the move to SBS2009 has been quite traumatic.
The old server had the original databases, which had to be backed-up (the instructions were naturally incomplete) and moved to the new server before migrating all workstations.
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