Storage Question
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
it's to late for you now..
Why is that?
Had to look what that was in reference too
While I think you can add a reseller to your account, they won't have the same type of access I don't believe as they would if they sold you the account originally. -
@Minion-Queen would know about the O365 stuff... but maybe you really need to talk to @art_of_shred instead, now that he's client facing
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@Dashrender said:
While I think you can add a reseller to your account, they won't have the same type of access I don't believe as they would if they sold you the account originally.
Oh I was figuring I'd just switch over to a reseller.
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To a partner, not a reseller. Go to a reseller and you get less, not more. Go to a partner and you get more. Resellers like GoDaddy can shave the price but you lose control that you otherwise have.
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@mlnews said:
To a partner, not a reseller. Go to a reseller and you get less, not more. Go to a partner and you get more. Resellers like GoDaddy can shave the price but you lose control that you otherwise have.
Got it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That's definitely what I would do. Practice, migrate, prioritize. You can have everything tested and ready with release candidates before it is time to go live. You can be SO ready
Would you go right to 2016 the day it launches? Or just use the downgrade rights and install 2012? I generally stay away from new releases!
Do we even know if there is a supported 2003 to 2016 migration? Maybe you have to go to 2012 first anyway?
Also: does anyone know if you can upgrade from an evaluation copy? I just installed one on my server, and it gives you 6 months without a key. If I delayed until the end of 2015, I could roll the dice and hope 2016 releases before 6 months.
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@BRRABill said:
Would you go right to 2016 the day it launches? Or just use the downgrade rights and install 2012? I generally stay away from new releases!
Maybe not THE day, but very, very soon. Remember this is a MINOR release, NT 6.4, not a major release (like NT 7) so this is NOT a new release but an incremental update. Think of this more like patching with features.
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@BRRABill said:
Do we even know if there is a supported 2003 to 2016 migration? Maybe you have to go to 2012 first anyway?
You don't want to do an in-place migration anyway. Especially not over that number of versions.
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@BRRABill said:
Also: does anyone know if you can upgrade from an evaluation copy? I just installed one on my server, and it gives you 6 months without a key. If I delayed until the end of 2015, I could roll the dice and hope 2016 releases before 6 months.
I would put that at "pretty risky".
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@BRRABill said:
Do we even know if there is a supported 2003 to 2016 migration? Maybe you have to go to 2012 first anyway?
We looked at all the options for upgrading 03 to 12 - tl;dr nuke & pave.
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@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill said:
Do we even know if there is a supported 2003 to 2016 migration? Maybe you have to go to 2012 first anyway?
We looked at all the options for upgrading 03 to 12 - tl;dr nuke & pave.
By that I assume you mean you stood up a brand new install of 2012 R2, inserted the server disk for 2012 into the 2003 server, updated the schemes, etc..
Then back on the 2012R2 box you DC Promo'ed it. Then transfered the roles from 2003 to 2012 R2, then demoted the 2003 server, then killed it, right?
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@scottalanmiller said:
You don't want to do an in-place migration anyway. Especially not over that number of versions.
Yeah I was thinking more the AD migration.
Definitely going to start anew.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I would put that at "pretty risky".
Because it might not work, or because Server 2016 won't be out until after July 2016?
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@Dashrender lol yes, though you un-tl;dr'd my post
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I would put that at "pretty risky".
Because it might not work, or because Server 2016 won't be out until after July 2016?
Because I doubt that it will work.
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender lol yes, though you un-tl;dr'd my post
I had no idea what tl:dr meant until 5 seconds ago...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Because I doubt that it will work.
I was thinking about that, still in the mindset of using Server 2012.
You are right upgrading to 2016 from eval probably would be sketchy at best.
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Worth doing to learn it before going to production with it. But plan to blow it away and do a fresh migration when the time comes.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Because I doubt that it will work.
I was thinking about that, still in the mindset of using Server 2012.
You are right upgrading to 2016 from eval probably would be sketchy at best.
You can't switch from a Eval to a full version on a DC, member servers it's fine it's just a DISM activation command. But once promoted to a DC you can't have the machine ID changing. You'd have to bring up a new DC if it had already been made a DC before activated.
