Microsoft File Transfer Manager - Moving In-Progress Transfers to a New PC

When I migrated my SBS2003 box to SBS2008, I had a bunch of downloads queued up in Microsoft File Transfer Manager and the active transfer was a 10GB file that was more than halfway through. My monthly quota before shaping kicks in is 40GB, which is generally more than enough for what I do, but not so this time around.

I didn't really want to delay the migration nor did I want to have to re-download the file, so I looked at moving the in-progress trnasfer to another PC. Here's how I did it:

• Download Microsoft File Transfer Manager
• Install FTM, run it, enable updates and create a desktop shortcut
• Copy the files found at %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\File Transfer Manager from the old PC to the new PC
• Edit ftmTransferList.txt if your in-progress transfers are being moved to a different drive and folder path
• reference is URL encoded: %5C for \, %3A for :
• Copy your in-progress transfer files from the old PC to the new PC
• Export the registry settings found at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SIAM\FileTransferManager\Settings from the old PC and merge on the new PC
• Run FTM from the desktop shortcut and resume the transfers

Essential Business Server RC1 Is Out

Microsoft have made EBS RC1 available via Public Preview. It can be downloaded from here.

Other useful links from the TechNet site:

Release Notes, Installation Guide, EBS Documentation, and the EBS Evaluation Centre.

 

Very handy documents (in .doc, .pdf or .xps format) to download and READ (as Susan says) before any migrations:

Windows Essential Business Server Product Overview

Windows Essential Business Server Getting Started Guide

Windows Essential Business Server Installation Guide

Migrating Active Directory Domain Services Scripts, Roaming Profiles, Redirected Folders, and Home Directories to Windows Essential Business Server

Migrating the DNS Role to Windows Essential Business Server

Migrating DHCP Server Service to Windows Essential Business Server

Migrating Microsoft Exchange Server to Windows Essential Business Server

Migrating from Windows Small Business Server 2003 to Windows Essential Business Server

 

Two very useful resources to keep an eye on while evaluating and testing EBS:

The Essential Business Server Team Blog

EBSfaq.com

 

And finally, if you need some gear to run this on, check out:

HP BladeSystem – in particular, the c3000 enclosure (“Shorty”)

IBM BladeCenter – in particular, the BladeCenter S offering

Intel Modular Server

Exchange Server 2003 - Migration From IMAP4

Had to migrate mailbox contents from an MDaemon Pro 8.x installation to an SBS2003 installation. Client was only using WorldClient, so I decided to use the Migration Wizard to migrate from an IMAP4 server. I had already used the Active Directory Migration Tool to migrate users, groups and computers, so account creation wasn't needed.
I fired up the Migration Wizard and proceeded to get stuck when it asked for a User List file. A bit of hunting found me this page
which provided the format for the user list file. Thankfully MDaemon has a nice account export feature, so I was able to export to CSV, then use Excel to get the extracted information into the necessary format. The format required is as follows:

IMAP_Mailbox,SMTP_Address,IMAP_Password,IMAP_Server
user1,user3@legacy.test.local,password,192.168.10.101
user2,user3@legacy.test.local,password,192.168.10.101
user3,user3@legacy.test.local,password,192.168.10.101

The header is needed. The Migration Wizard then went and matched up the mailboxes to existing accounts. All account mapping were correct and the migration then proceeded without a hitch.
Another useful time-saving migration tool is the File Server Migration Toolkit. It makes share and security migration a breeze. The DFS Consolidation Root capability also allows the migration to occur leaving the orginal UNC path intact! Very, very slick!