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Moving Global Settings OCS from Domain System Container to Configuration Partition: useful links

When deploying your first OCS server, you will be prompted where you'ld like to store its Global Settings, you have the choice between Domain Partitiion and Configuration Partition.

Initially, the decision tree to select between those two partittions was the following one, as posted by Microsoft:

 

But, in April this year, the OCS team published updated guidance, as can be seen reading their blog here, and this is now the decision tree, as taken from their blog post:

If you want to go ahead and move the information from the Systems Container to the Configuration Partition, I stronly urge you to have a look at the following blog post done by Elan Shudnow, and Aaron Tiensivu, showing you all steps in details on how to accomplish this mission successfully!

In the trenches - OCS 2007 R1 migration of global settings container in prep for OCS 2007 R2 upgrade - gotchas and workarounds with OCSMigrate.vbs

-Ilse


Posted 05-26-2009 1:46 by Ilse Van Criekinge
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