The preparation steps would be slightly different if they upgraded their Windows 2003 Server to Windows 2008 or 2012. I suspect that a lot of organizations have Domino Servers running on Windows 2003 Servers. I used to run a SharePoint 2010 Server on it but now I use it to run a Domino R8.5 Server. I have an old Windows 2003 Server running in a VMWare Workstation VM.
Note: I provide an abundance of details with screenshots. Then I run the Domino server on the VM and test connecting to it with a web browser and a Notes client. Part two provides the details to upload the VHD disk to Azure and create a VM there. Part one ends with the conversion of a Windows 2003 VMWare VM to a Hyper-V VHD disk. This is part one of a two part blog posting. I will also provide some explanation on where I ran into some problems and explain what I do to resolve them. I’m going to post the details about my experience. However, the comments to the posts often describe a failure and request additional details. Some of the blog posts make it look like it is a very simple process. I have a read a few blog posts on uploading old VMs to Azure.
