Yesterday was a rough day in my exchange world. We tried an upgrade path from nt 4.0 exchange 5.5 sp3 to windows 2000. It was on an old compaq proliant 3000 333mhz 256 megs of ram.
Windows 2000 installed but upon reboot, we got stop errors. Eventually, we went into recovery mode and after about 20 some hours, were able to recovery nt4.0 exchange 5.5 with no data loss. We believe the stop errors were some out of date drivers, perhaps old hardware on the system. What I want feedback on is this. We have another exchange server in a separate org. It is running on a dual 1ghz with 640 megs of ram. We were considering an upgrade from windows nt 4.0 exchange 5.5 sp4 to windows 2000 exchange 2000 and then to win2k3 and e2k3. I am very concerned about doing this since this is a much bigger server with a much larger IS and we may not be so lucky in getting a good recovery. What do you guys recommend? Is an upgrade safe or should we think about a new server and then migrating? Need everyones thoughts. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
