At the end of this Blog, you will find a little Excel-Sheet which will help you in these matters. This Data will come again as soon the Clients are reassigned and sent their first Inventories.īefore we start the Migration – it is advisable to create first a Migration Plan. Site-Data like Hardware Inventory / Software Inventory cannot be migrated. Migration job planning - Configuration Manager | Microsoft Learn What is also important is what you can migrate and what not:
You find a full list of Prerequisites on this Article: The Side-by-Side Method is a safe way to do a Transition – You define a Migration-Plan, Schedules, Responsibilities, Timelines without any pressure - however it also takes the longest time – as always there are depends – but a Side-by-Side Migration is usually not a weekend job. There can be also a Scenario where you want to place your Management Servers to a different domain – a Site by Site Migration is the only option in that case. This Scenario also comes sometimes if you change your Service Partner – and the new Partner want to implement/install a new Configuration Manager, instead of using the existing one for political reasons, unknown configurations where there was no hand over. It is also necessary to reassign all your clients from the old to the new Site – probably you will not catch all clients in the first run – so there will be a period when you must run in parallel. And here you can use the Side-by-Side Migration, to keep this investment in your new Site too. Even with a fresh new Site – you made a lot of investment regarding Applications, Packages, Task Sequences, and other configurations which you do not want to rebuild again. Maybe you want to implement a general new Design, based on your experience with the current Environment. To be more exact – it is not a change of the Operating System of your current Infrastructure – You set up a completely new Site in your Domain where you implement Current Best Practices. In this Blog we want to explain what is necessary to change the Operating System of a Server which hosts the Configuration Manager by a Side-by-Side Migration. Special thanks to our contributors, reviewers and content-writers, Wilhelm Kocher, Anthony Fontanez, Emilian Bucur, Pavel Yurenev, Anderson Cassimiro and Madalina Zamfir. Our field and support experience into this.
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