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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Moving your office's serverfarm.

What do you get when you have 2 sys admins, 19 servers, 32 workstations, and 4 days to move it all to a new location and get it up and running again?

A headache probably.

Now add the bonus of figuring it would be nice to redo your active directory structure and reinstall your fileserver, exchange server AND SQL servers?

Thats right, you get a chaotic 4 days, without too much sleep.

I still can't believe we actually did it though. Ok, we had moral support from the girls in human resources and administration who were doing the decorating and planning of all the other stuff that needed to be moved. And ofcourse my boss, the head of development was kind enough to do some workstation testing.

At the end of the four days there were a couple of things not up and running:

Team Foundation Server
Sharepoint Portal Server
WSUS Server

I can tell you now, don't try to move your Team Foundation Server to another domain without knowing the concequences. I found out the hard way though.

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