Posts Tagged ‘migration’

December 30 2009

Migrating a blog from Blogger to Wordpress

 I have finally moved my blog from Blogger (Blogspot) to Wordpress with zero downtime and zero search engine reputation loss (pagerank). I thought I’d share the process I followed here.
Here are the main steps involved in Blogger-to-Wordpress migration:

Setting up Wordpress
Setting Permalinks structure in Wordpress
Preparing your Blogger blog for export
Importing posts & comments from Blogger
Fixing your [...]

May 21 2009

Setting up Virtual Windows XP (aka “XP mode”) in Windows 7

Last evening, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 Release Candidate (RC) on my Lenovo W500 notebook. Since I was moving from Windows 7 Ultimate x32 Beta, this meant a complete re-installation, as there is no upgrade option from beta to RC.
The installation was pretty smooth and I did not have issues with drivers for [...]

November 14 2008

Removing leading/trailing white spaces from displayName using PowerShell

I am moving thousands of Exchange 2003 mailboxes to Exchange Server 2007 over this weekend. Most of these are student mailboxes which have been provisioned using another third party system. Due to a minor bug, the third party system added a trailing space to every student’s display name.
A trailing space is a whitespace at [...]

January 29 2008

Upgrading address lists created in Exchange Server 2003

EHLO again.
Hope you enjoyed my previous post that explains how to upgrade Exchange 2003 recipient policies for use with Exchange Server 2007.
This post deals with the “art and science” of upgrading Exchange 2003 Address Lists to its Exchange Server 2007 form. I say “art and science” because it can be a little tricky to understand [...]

January 29 2008

Upgrading recipient policies created in Exchange 2003

After installing Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server into an Exchange Server 2003 organization, you open Exchange Management Console and navigate to Organization Configuration > Hub Transport > Email Address Policies.
You find all the legacy recipient policies that you created in Exchange 2003 over here, but when you try to edit a recipient policy, you get [...]

January 28 2008

When Setup fails: Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Role

I went ahead to install the mailbox server role on one of the brand new servers commissioned for Exchange Server 2007.

The prerequisite checks went OK, and setup began doing the ‘real stuff’. Happiness was shortlived, because, towards the end setup showed that it failed. The following error was thrown:

An unexpected error has occurred and a [...]