Traditionally, upgrading to Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) has been a complex and time consuming process, often resulting in disruption to your business and causing mayhem amongst staff.

The Past
Most I.T. companies upgrade to SBS 2008 by providing new hardware, setting up a new domain and then migrating all of your email, folders and data across to the new server. On top of this they then need to visit each workstation, remove them from the existing domain and join them to the new domain, often resulting in loss of user profile, customised settings and icons. This creates confusion for staff as they can no longer access the files and data they once could easily.

Such invasive migration techniques often resulted in the I.T. technician spending several days, sometimes even weeks, sorting out the technical problems that have arisen as a result of the the new server migration.

Is this the way it should be? Should you have to put up with such severe disruption to your business? What about the costs of downtime and loss of productivity? Shouldn't getting a new server be a more positive experience? After all, your new server and operating system should perform faster increasing your productivity?
 

The Present - The IT Force Approach
The IT Force Approach recognises that there has to be a better, more productive, less invasive way of upgrading your server operating system and installing new hardware.

At IT Force, we use such a technique that streamlines the process and makes it easy and painless. Our migration techniques allow you to continue using the same network domain, which means we do not need to touch the workstations at all, except to upgrade software if that is needed.

The IT Force is not a mirror image of your existing server, it is a fresh installation so you won't inherit technical problems that were part of your existing operating system.

Most of the migration occurs offsite in our workshop, so the only time that your server needs to be down is on the live migration day to forklift data across.

The IT Force has been so effective that most of the time a technician will not be required to visit the site the following day, which means you start recognising the performance and productivity gains immediately, as well as saving thousands on migration and costly after sales support.

Call us today and arrange to have the IT Force Approach used for your next Small Business Server migration.