

*Company Info, Computer Name, Domain Name, Admin InfoĮxpanding & Installing Files Starts 6:32pmĭelivers Success Message and Desktop 7:24pm Installing features and updates, less than a minute Will use rtm MSDN Key with current media to make sure it fly’sĭrive 0 500 Gb create partition C: 250 Gb balance unallocatedĭrive 1 700 Gb create partition D: 350 Gb balance unallocated Ready to start 2nd Dry Run SBS 2008 Clean Install, bios flashed, drives cleaned, dvd’s burned If you would like to use mine at your own risk it is at the end of this article, if you would like something more professional, take a look at Charlie’s Script, you may need to modify it a bit for SBS 2008. I thought I would share my rough notes with you from the last run to help in your planning.īy the way all through this post you will see that I use a script to reboot the SBS Server, mine is a quick and dirty little script with no logging.

The last couple of weekends I have done 2 dry runs following along the SBS 2008 Community Build Doc to get an idea of the timings of the different components. I have not done any real installs of SBS 2008 since the media refresh, so I though some practice was in order. Well it just happens that I needed to know this as well for an upcoming project I am doing out of town next month. I think they really want to know how long before you have a working system. I have done quite a few of them.īut I don’t think that is what they are really asking me. If you are installing from DVD’s it is 90 minutes give or take a couple of minutes. Posted on July 12th, 2010 HandyAndy 3 commentsĪ number of folks have asked me how long it takes to install SBS 2008, well the short answer is an hour and a half.
