Finally, those who have been telling me, it must be your beta browser, can go jump in a lake (you know who you are)… Firefox 1.0 is officially released. Mozilla.org is slammed right now, so good luck visiting their site. Here is the Firefox 1.0 EN-US FTP release directory, you’ll have better luck there.
Well I finally got my Hard Drive Carrier Assemblies from Dell and went to add them into my new server that I installed SBS on. I found out that you can’t add more drives to a RAID 5 array without re-initializing the array, which means reformatting. So basically I’m back to Day 1.
Woo Hoo.
Well things were going great Friday night. I got DHCP up and running all the computers on the network were getting their IP addresses from the new server. I started working through the “To Do List” and realized, I hadn’t yet purchased the additional CALs we needed to run this server on our network yet…
WHOOPS.
Well, that brings us to today, I’m going to be calling CDW up and purchasing some CALs. Hopefully they can get me them by the end of the week so I can finish this migration on this coming Friday.
I’ve been patiently waiting all day for my new hard drive carrier assemblies to arrive for our new Dell server. Finally, I called Dell and asked where they were and they cheerfully tell me that they will be here on Monday.
GRRRRR…
“I payed for Overnight delivery,” I tell the guy. He proceeds to tell me that they put me down for 2 day. Needless to say I’m not very happy. But I complained enough to get my $16 bucks back.
GRRRRR…
I came in this morning and completed the SBS 2k3 installation and installed Microsoft SQL Server on the machine. Now I have the “To Do List” to tackle, most of which I am not going to touch until tonight when I am ready for the actual Migration. That is when I expect some headaches, but we’ll see.
The crummy part is that I won’t have Internet access during the migration because I have to disconnect both the source and destination servers from the router. So, hopefully, this little migration doc that I found on Microsoft’s website will give me all the answers I will need. I’ve read it several times and it all seems fairly straight forward and since our office isn’t huge, I don’t expect it to take forever.
I’ll probably check back in later tonight either before or after to let everyone know how it went.
This looks like it will be pretty good. Yes, I’m one of those suckers who likes all the Star Wars movies.
StarWars: Episode III Trailer
Well I’m into Disc 2 of the SBS 2k3 installation process… so far everything is going great. No surprises or snags, but then, I am just installing onto a brand new server, so what really could go wrong during this stage of the process…. Right? I’ll let you know when it is done.
So today I begin the process of migrating our Windows 2000 Server to Small Business Server 2003.
Boy am I looking forward to this.
I figure I could get a couple days of posting out of it and, who knows, logging it here may help someone else out in the future (unlikely). So for those posts related to this topic I am going to put SBS-2k3 in the title, so you know to skip over if you aren’t interested, however this may be amusing to read cause I anticipate some frustration in the near future.
EDIT: I decided not to put SBS-2k3 in the title, instead I just made it a Category.
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 0.9 (almost 1.0). If you are still using Outlook Express, I suggest you don’t walk, but run to Mozilla Thunderbird. The junk mail filters are awesome and let’s face it, it isn’t Microsoft.
For changes in this release refer to: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Release Notes
Well… I could have guessed it, but, needless to say — today is a very disappointing day in America. I just have to say, you get what you vote for.
Enough said.