Completing setup for the SQL migration process

Log in as a user with administrator rights to the Sage 100 SQL site on Sage Partner Cloud, and complete the following setup work.

Download source server backup files from Azure

  1. In a browser, open portal.azure.com and log in.
  2. In the Resources list, select the storage container where you uploaded the backup files.
  3. In the container, select the ZIP file for the backup database files from the source server, and click Download at the top of the page.
  4. In the container, select the ZIP file for the backup MAS90 folder from the source server, and click Download at the top of the page.

Create folders in File Explorer

  1. Open File Explorer and browse to data drive E.
  2. Create two new folders in the root of the data drive:
    • E:\SourceData
    • E:\SourceDB

After completing the steps above, see Creating second SQL Server database instance.