Creating a new Central Management Store on Skype for Business Server

Question

I have a Lync 2010 and a Skype for Business 2015 server coexisting. All users are on the SFB server. I will be decommissioning the Lync 2010 server. I need to move CMS to SFB. I have a question concerning creating a new Central Management Store on the Skype server. Both installs are standard edition, not enterprise. The databases on the skype server is located on a drive other than C.

Is the following command correct for creating a new central management store for a standard edition install?

Install-CsDatabase -CentralManagementDatabase -SqlServerFqdn sfbserver.domain -SqlInstanceName rtc -DatabasePaths F:\csdata\CSDB

Will I have to create the subfolder CSDB or will it be created when the script is run?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @mara2021

Is the following command correct for creating a new central management store for a standard edition install?

Yes, you're right. And it will be created when the script is run. You could find the steps from this document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/migration/move-the-central-management-server#to-prepare-a-standard-edition-front-end-server

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