Chapter 3Migrating to Configuration Manager

In the past, an upgrade or migration of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 to Configuration Manager 2007 was typically not an easy process. You could migrate the environment side-by-side manually or by using scripts, but at the end of the process you were not able to monitor the migration of the objects. In many cases, a new Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure was created next to the old SMS infrastructure and the objects that were needed in the new Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure were re-created by hand.

Configuration Manager 2012 introduced a migration feature that allowed an administrator to easily migrate objects from a Configuration Manager 2007 source hierarchy to a Configuration ...

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