SBSMigration.com

Our business is to help you work like an expert, to quickly learn valuable skills to complete your migration projects efficiently. 

We provide you with our well researched and proven methodology and with whatever help you want from us in that process. Our documentation will guide you through a project with a predictable outcome, our tools provide leverage, our resources are unique and we will support clarifying or troubleshooting your project with you.

	Swing It!! Technician Kit Migration Project Solution To ensure your success on the first project, our bundle includes each of the elements shown below. Add a subscription later to expand your library and resource with of these items offered separately if you wish to address different projects.
A predictable project solution Chose 1 project scenario with your Technician Kit purchase. You can download it immediately and then work your project with a professional guide, tools and our resources to help you. You receive any updates that are released in the next 90 days.
Unlmited Email Support for 90 days A Technician Kit includes 90 days of unlimited support by email to help you successfully complete your first project. We can clarify the documentation, advise you on the best approach to your project, or assist you in troubleshooting any issues in the strategic project path outlined for you. If your project begins as a diaster recovery situation, we will help you resolve that as well!
License to Use Forever You will learn how to work a migration or upgrade process you can use over and over again. Your license provides you the "forever use" of the materials you receive. For an IT Pro consultant, you can work as many projects, servers, domains or customers as you wish. We provide you the option to begin a subscription if you want to maintain use of SBSmigration.com resources and update. If you want support on additional projects, we have that available for you.

Our Service Goes Far Beyond a Whitepaper

Beyond your expectation of a whitepaper, we add even more value by including custom tools, resource services and support at an extremely reasonable price. It's your option to decide what works best for you and your business in how to get the most from what we can offer you. Our flagship product is the Technician Kit, but it's more than a documentation set:

• Project Guides - The project is fully documented, yet you get references and troubleshooting information as well. Our documentation starts before you migration begins by helping you audit the health and compliance of the existing server.
• Supplemental References - You will find configuration and support references available, both those we provide and those we can help you to locate when you need them through our website resources.
• Custom Tools - Lightweight scripts we provide as tools are efficient and reliable, the do tasks you could do manually, but with more accuracy and speed.
• Direct Email Support - Our unlimited direct email support included in every Technician Kit far exceeds the quality most people expect, that's what we get as feedback. Your project can work offline so you don't have the time line pressure to work on-site or with the customer down. Yet our detailed and accurate email support smooths out the wrinkles in learning the process or sorting out issues.
• Discussion Forums - Intended primarily for our subscribers, these forums provide a wealth of accurate research and troubleshooting information that is available 24x7. As the backbone resource for our policy of "pay for support only if you need it", the forum put you in touch with experienced peers and discussions monitored for accuracy as well as low-priority support responses we provide.
• Project Oriented - Our flagship product is the Technician Kit, a combination of all the items mentioned here including unlimited email support to complete your first project. We help you learn, and master the process while you work for your customer's benefit.
• Annual Subscription Option - If you prefer to have everything you may need at your fingertips, our Subscription give you use of all the project guide scenarios and all the resources at a low annual cost.
• Company or Technician Licensing - We have introduced the option to allow the license to be owned by either the Technician or the Company. The Company License ensures that your company can retain control of the assets and resources even if you change your staff, it's as simple as logging onto your subscription based account to change the logon and identification of who your new staff member is. Yet, if you are a technician ordering for your own needs, the Technician Licenses follows you where you go.
• Forever License Use - Our license gives you the option to use your materials and tools forever. You can do as many projects, servers, domains, or customers as you wish.

Complete Project Guides to Flexible Solutions

Swing Migration is a solution for product version upgrades, platform changes, even for hardware redeployments. This solution is even a great training process for complete Disaster Recovery from bare metal or a crippled Domain Controller. The key is understanding how persistence of Active Directory is the key to a wide variety of project scenarios: 

• (4) Documentation Scenarios Available to Choose – When placing your order, choose the one project scenario from four options:
  • Windows or SBS Upgrades: 2000 to 2003
  • NT / Exch 5.x/ SBS4.x Upgrades: NT to Win or SBS 2003
  • SBS 2000 Redeployment
  • SBS 2003 Redeployment

We use these scenarios to illustrate a full range of project solutions you can apply as outlined in the table below.

Swing It!! Technician Kit Tools

The Technician Kit tools are extremely helpful in completing the project. The documentation provides the methodology of construction, and the tools simplify certain steps along the way. You could do the project without the tools, but why would you want to work that hard?

Learn on a Production Project

You can be working offline, offsite, and the customer is operating while you do 90% of the server migration work in advance. You won't be taking advantage of the customer to learn on their project because you can take your time without impacting their operations.

You can learn and apply Swing Migration to your professional work on the very first project, and more than pay for the kit too. If you have only one project to do, or if you just prefer to try the concepts out on one project at the lowest price to get start, the Technician Kit is ideal. Once you realize you will be doing many project during the year, you probably get the best value from a Subscription. :

• Swing It!! Technician Kit – This is ideal for your first project or only project. You get your choice of one project scenario and  90 days of benefits with active account to use the website resources, obtain updates and consider the option to convert to a subscription anytime during that period.
• Annual Subscription – For the IT Professional, you can gain immediate access to use all 4 project scenarios and a full year of benefits and updates to everything available. This combines that value of a subscription plus the Kit Owner Pack to provide you a savings of $45 USD as compared to ordering a Technician Kit plus a subscription separately.

Either approach provides you with our support and services available. If you prefer to come back for a Technician Kit whenever you need to do another project, you get our direct email support every time. If you rather work on your own, the subscription reserves the option to get support at a discount if you need it, work independently if you prefer.

For a larger IT Pro company, you might have multiple technicians you want to have learn and implement Swing Migration. For you we offer the Company License based Staff License option, allowing you to save as much as 70% per license for your additional staff while providing them the very same resources and benefits.

Complete Project Documentation

Better than a Whitepaper - It's a Migration Project Plan Reference

This isn't like the Microsoft Migration Whitepapers, if that's what you are expecting. Our documentation probably is a lot closer to what you have after completing your last project when you have marked up their whitepaper with your notes!

• How many times have you taken your notes and that marked up whitepaper from your last project as you start your next upgrade project? That's what we all do, because the whitepaper never is up to date, never has the other references we needed.
• Ever read the Microsoft whitepaper and realize you don't even know they are talking about, so you have to dig out another whitepaper? We've tried to solve that for you.
• This never happens to you? You carry around a printed copy of the Microsoft Knowledgebase docs, or you store an electronic copy to review. Only later do you find out that the KB was changed, and your copy is out of date. You are missing crucial information because you had no idea it changed. You find out after you needed it.
• What you want most of all is a set of steps that are laid out in sequence for you. Start here, move through this, complete that step before you do the next one, but how do you know you finished it correctly?

We understand. That's why our docs are project oriented, and they are educational references at the same time. We highlight what you have to do, but we give you background and sidebar notes as well. The document is the expert at your elbow guiding you through what you need to do, what else you need to know, and where you go to find even more information beyond that. Specific steps, specific references, keystroke level details on the critical Swing Steps you need.

It's a "Living Document"

The reason we say we are really providing a service is because we are maintaining these work docs, updating them as things change. We'll maintain this as a living document reference for the next project you need to do. As products are revised, bugs are found, service packs change, and security issues are identified, our documentation will be updated. That's the service we will provide. Together with the optional tools we can provide, we are looking to refresh everything as much as needed to keep this project reference up to date for your next project.

The Outlined Steps of a Whitepaper, the details of a Reference

The initial release of our "How to Perform Swing Migrations" documentation includes 60 pages of project reference information, and 15 pages of key troubleshooting references. You don't have to read it all to do a project, but you will have it on hand if you need it. It's a reference.

The Swing Migration is described within 5 Phases that help you stage and plan the project to your unique deployment needs, and skills. We show you alternatives you can choose at the point in the process you can use them. We tell you when is your last chance to modify things, or preserve them. We identify what work you can do in advance, what you can do offsite, when you must be offline, and when you must shutdown production to move to data transition. It's clearly presented, extremely detailed, and includes illustrations to help you get a picture of the flow of the project as you work.

The steps for the complete process numbered in sequence, identified not just for what you are doing, but why you are doing it. You will learn a great deal about the technical relationships that bind the concepts of Domain Controllers, Exchange Servers, Active Directory, DNS, and Small Business Server specific issues.

Wrap-Around Documentation

We know you probably have done most of the steps before. The Swing Migration was very intentionally, very specifically designed to use the most familiar methods to do most of the work. The majority of the time you will spend working on a Swing Migration is going to be related to doing the regular process steps you do for a clean installation of SBS 2003. Later the steps familiar in resuming the normal SBS Setup automation again return, and there are no odd "preparations" involved. You get the typical process and familiar steps you know, and we simply identify where the special steps occur, and how to troubleshoot issues we've found even if they aren't related to the Swing process at all, just things that Microsoft missed, or has revised.

The "How to Perform Swing Migrations" reference includes not just the swing steps, but also provides you with continuity information, too. We expect you know how to install SBS 2003 from "insert the CD and boot", but we have those steps included too, just to make sure you know exactly when to move into our unique construction process. In the final stages of construction, we identify when you begin the data migration and Exchange Information Store transition, plus the basic steps involved for that.

In total, we estimate that your entire migration project will include just between 45-90 minutes of tasks you may not be familiar with, but the documentation takes you through everything with details you may not find anywhere.

Unique Solution

The Swing Migration is a concept based upon practices some of the most highly skilled IT professionals have done for years. Much of the plan is borrowed from concepts used in Enterprise scale operations for fault-tolerance, and then combined with disaster recovery methods for failed servers.

What makes the Swing It!! Method unique is we have taken it a step further. We've provided the documentation to not only recover and redeploy a server in the same domain, we fixed the bigger problem. The documentation explains work steps in such a way that you not only save your domain name, you can keep the server name, the IP, and the Exchange Information Store. If that's not enough, we explain how you can do the entire project offline, in parallel to the production SBS or other Windows Domain Controller you are replacing.

The combined result is that you can work weekdays, not weekends. You deploy a cleanly upgraded server with an identity so close to the old server, you just slide it in an boot without the workstations knowing the difference. We eliminated the desktop disasters, and we can preserve the Exchange intact.

For technical explanation of the details, check out the Reviewers Guide, or just maybe you are ready to buy your Swing It!! Kit right now to start Swinging!

Additional Supplemental Guides

The Domain Audit Guide and Exchange Forklift Guide help you to resolve troubleshooting and health issues with AD, DCs or Exchange. These are just two of the most popular supplemental references we offer, and more are on the way to help you resolve technical planning and troubleshooting situations.