Hi, A few thoughts: SBS isn't supported running in production under VPC. It is supported in HyperV for sure, and possibly ESXI also, but anything else would be for test environments only. Why are you wanting to virtualise your SBS box? As for upgrading, there is SBS7 in beta test at the moment, you may want to wait for that before jumping in? You can't do an in-place upgrade from SBS 03 to SBS 08, you can migrate the settings using the migration tool, but you need to have a source and destination server for that to work. You could also throw everything away and start over, backing up mail and documents of course, depending on how many users you have on the system. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Frank Ventura Sent: 27 September 2010 01:36 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Upgrading from SBS 2003 to 2008 Hi all, it is about time for me to upgrade our own internal server from SBS 03 to SBS 08. We have had 03 running in a VM under VPC 07 for some time now. Should we still run SBS 08 as a virtualized server? If so what is the most accessible means of doing this, HyperV, Fusion on the Mac, VMWare Workstation, or something else. I loved VPC but I don't think it can work with 64 bit guest systems. Also what host hardware and OS should I use. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since sighted help is rarely available around here. Tia Frank _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins