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Data breaches: All one needs to do is look at what the Home Depot and Target breaches did to those companies. That should be motivation enough to migrate. But those firms were big enough to recover. A smaller company might not be. Microsoft is ending support for Windows Server, but the apps running on the server are just as much at risk. Maurice McMullin, product marketing manager with KEMP Technologies, which does WS migrations, said there are two major risks to apps: it may not be maintained by the developer and a company may or not have the resource in house to maintain it.

If the app falls over, who's there to support it? The implications are if they don't migrate, they are exposed on the app side and may not have the resources to fix it. The other thing is from external risks that may be discovered after support ends," he said. Many companies not making the migration cite cost as the reason; either they can't afford it or they haven't got the budget this year but will later in the year or next year.

If you are in such a scenario, you should still begin preparing for the eventual move and not wait until you have the money to begin planning. That way you have a plan ready for execution when the funds are there.

Bit9 recommends several steps in the process:. Don't do it alone: A smooth transition to a new platform will require full buy-in and agreement from any and all impacted stakeholders.

That means not just the IT department, but the business units impacted and the budgeting finance team. Dedicate time for project scoping: The average migration project will take over days to implement, from assessment, to migration, to debugging. You're not just copying files, there is much more to the migration. So find the potential pitfalls early on and not get tripped up during the migration.

Work within your budget: If you are not making the move for financial reasons, then you likely already have a good idea of your finances.

You will need a clear picture of potential project risks, costs and buy-in for the necessary human resource requirements. Set a realistic timeline: As said above, a migration takes on average days.

Some can be worse, others easier. Rushing will only make a mess. It will lead to mistakes, cost overruns and resource misallocation. For organizations not making the move but cognizant of the potential exposure, there are some steps you can take. Mind you, there will eventually come a tipping point where you are spending more money to shore up your antiquated WS servers than it would cost to migrate, so keep that in mind when considering the following:.

Lock down services and limit access to the physical server, and make sure all logging is turned on to monitor for unusual activity or unauthorized access. Yeah, our File Server is on a separate server. Have to read up. Perhaps you can export your DNS zone and users [via csv] to save time. Might be a direct faster way than going from , then , then , with potential unknown errors along the way. There us no reason to go from R2 to R2 to R2 to Just 1 intermediate step is required, at most.

For example, start at R2, then go to R2, then If deploying the initial version of which supports FRS, you should be able to make that a DC in a R2 domain. Thank you for all your support. Since I have many other duties, this might take a few weeks. Anyway, today I installed a fresh VM and joined it to the domain.

Will continue with promoting it later this week. Might need some more help as I move along. Thanks again! Just an update: I tried promo it to a DC, but get a message saying I must adprep the forest first. When I do that, I get an error message saying that it can't be done because it's not an active directory domain controller.

Anyone else with the adprep issue in this scenario? This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. User Guides. ESET Forum. YouTube videos. Need further assistance? More Information. Contact your Microsoft partner or account team to learn more. ESUs for select Embedded products are available via your embedded device manufacturer. Coverage will be available in three consecutive month increments following End of Support.

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