After running my new hardware for a few days out of the case to ensure it was all working correctly, it was time to power down the old server and swap the hardware into the new case. All went pretty smoothly, until I realised, right at the end, that a Powershell script that manages attaching/detaching virtual HDs that live on a removable HD that store the VM backups was still on the old hardware. Back in the old IDE days, this would have meant at least powering down, and maybe unplugging a nasty old ribbon cable from a second HDD, if you rolled that way, powering on, copying etc. But last night (well, early hours of this morning), I just hot-plugged the system SATA SSD from the old build into a spare SATA cable on the new system, copied the script over, and unplugged again. Progress!
Anyone else have similar progress-related items to share?