What is the correct procedure to move users and program configuration to a new server?
The instructions for doing this with the non-dot-net version (previous version) are available on the Argosoft website, and are faiely simple, however I cannot find anything describing this for the dot-net version.
I was able to move my domains and users across to the dot-net version from the previous version without any great hassle (hint - run maintenance before exporting your users in the previous version, it can save a bunch of time) and have had the dot-net version running for a week. Unfortunately, the computer is a bit old and slow, so I have purchased a new computer running Windows 2008 server. I have been able to install eWall and Mail Server.Net, and everything works OK.
I then tried to use a similar method to the one described for the previous version of MSPro - stopped all services on both computers then copied all the files, folders and sub folders from the working server to the new server. On restart of the MailServer.Net program, it was unable to connect to the SQL database, and hence failed to operate correctly. I abandoned the process and am still using the older, slower server for the time being.
It seems that main problem was the MS SQL database - the rest of the files in the _users sub-folder, for example, seem to work the same way as with the previous version.
Can anyone assist with an appropriate method to achieve this? It might be a useful procedure to end up on the Argosoft site under the FAQ for the dot-net version.
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