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      David_CSG
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      Doing a little victory dance after successfully: Upgrading a Server2008R2 VM to 2012R2, then its SQL Express 2008R2 installation upgraded to 2012R2, and setting up RDS for making the OLD LOB app available via RDP. Because archival financial info.

      What a PITA, so many very Microsoft-ian errors along the way to overcome.
      For anyone that cares, yes an upgrade. The 2008R2 VM itself was created by me (fresh and shiny new & clean, a handful of years ago), in which I had to do a clean install of said OS and SQL Server Express, and restore data which had been backed up, but the server of origin had died, hard, not long after I recommended replacing it in fact (won't miss that single box running SBS 2011, ever).

      Client-side app won't run in Windows 10 (total non-starter), did in Win 8 and earlier.
      So this is a nice way to still provide access to said valued data for the remaining years the client will need or care about it.

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce @David_CSG
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        @David_CSG said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Doing a little victory dance after successfully: Upgrading a Server2008R2 VM to 2012R2

        Didn't mainstream support end for 2012 r2 like a year ago?

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        • hobbit666H
          hobbit666 @Obsolesce
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          @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @David_CSG said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Doing a little victory dance after successfully: Upgrading a Server2008R2 VM to 2012R2

          Didn't mainstream support end for 2012 r2 like a year ago?

          Yeah main stream was 2018. Expended 2023

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            David_CSG @hobbit666
            last edited by David_CSG

            @hobbit666

            Exactly.

            https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4015079/lifecycle-dates-extended-for-windows-server-2012

            So, security updates til 10/2023.

            Plenty of time, given that the timeframe access to this data will be needed is another three years.

            Other considerations:

            1. An available lic for 2012R2 already existed.
            2. Given the age of the old financial software product, I didn’t know if/that it would even work. Thankfully it does, just fine. Really seriously doubt it could/will run, at all, on anything newer. Have already established that the client component does not run in W10.
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            • hobbit666H
              hobbit666
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              Yeah we will be going through this in the new year once we get some new kit. Will need to look at licensing and move some VM from 2008 depending on licensing costs and what we got.

              Think we will do steps get them on 2012 then test upgrades to 2016/2019

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                Just had lunch with dad. Doing a Windows 2008 to Fedora 30 file server migration, now.

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                  black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Just had lunch with dad. Doing a Windows 2008 to Fedora 30 file server migration, now.

                  Is this a LANless environment?

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                    @black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Just had lunch with dad. Doing a Windows 2008 to Fedora 30 file server migration, now.

                    Is this a LANless environment?

                    No, but it will be someday. This stage is removing Active Directory and moving from Windows to Linux. They should be LANless and always should have been, as two of their three sites can't reach the LAN. But the former IT guys weren't up to par and this is the least of the issues. So we've been doing a forklift to get them to "safety", but expect to be LANless this year. This is the last "LAN-centric" workload that they have after this weekend.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      Just moved a company from Intermedia's Exchange to Zoho Mail.

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                        DustinB3403
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                        Was Wednesday, but celebration today.

                        IMG_20190721_171215_01.jpg

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                        • siringoS
                          siringo
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                          put my application in for a new role within the Dept in which I work. Badly need a change after 10 years.

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                            EddieJennings @siringo
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                            @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            put my application in for a new role within the Dept in which I work. Badly need a change after 10 years.

                            For what role are you applying?

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                              siringo @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Just moved a company from Intermedia's Exchange to Zoho Mail.

                              That's an interesting move.
                              Why Zoho, what was the main deal maker?

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                              • siringoS
                                siringo @EddieJennings
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                                @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                put my application in for a new role within the Dept in which I work. Badly need a change after 10 years.

                                For what role are you applying?

                                Same style of work, but working as hands and feet for the Management team, so it'll place me inbetween the filthy techs in the trenches (which is what i am) and the people who manage them.

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                                • EddieJenningsE
                                  EddieJennings @siringo
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                                  @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  the filthy techs

                                  That made me laugh 😄

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                                  • brandon220B
                                    brandon220
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                                    Updated 2 more desktops from F29 to F30 and building another F30 KVM host.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @brandon220
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                                      @brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Updated 2 more desktops from F29 to F30 and building another F30 KVM host.

                                      Nice

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @siringo
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                                        @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        Just moved a company from Intermedia's Exchange to Zoho Mail.

                                        That's an interesting move.
                                        Why Zoho, what was the main deal maker?

                                        $12/user/month for an older style product with problems and poor support, to $1/user/month for a more modern stylistic product with, so far, zero problems.

                                        92% cost reduction, with more features in the cheaper product!

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @siringo
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                                          @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          Just moved a company from Intermedia's Exchange to Zoho Mail.

                                          That's an interesting move.
                                          Why Zoho, what was the main deal maker?

                                          We are planning a Zimbra to Zoho move soon ourselves.

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                                          • hobbit666H
                                            hobbit666
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                                            More Raspberry Pi stuff, getting the script to run and improving performance.

                                            Also some zipping on my rsync target to create backups of the backups that will be stored for few days.

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