Dear Jeff,
I think that the "jump" in your plan is too much in one step.
When we swapped out our hardware for bigger and better, we stopped
the Exchange Services and disabled them, rebooted, then performed a special
tape backup. Took the (old) Exchange Server off of the network. Performed
a tape restore onto a generic NT 4.0 build. Then, rebooted the (new)
Exchange Server and performed an NT 4.0 install upon boot up. This way, we
used all of the old files (even the operating system) and installed the
different drivers as appropriate.
Rob Garrish
Exchange Administrator
Wawa Inc.
610-558-8371
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 01:57 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Server Upgrade
I am upgrading our current e-mail system hardware, for many many different
reasons the new system has to have the same system name as the old system.
This is usually not a problem, I just do it as a Disaster Recovery and
restore exchange to the new H/W, however I am trying to through my own
wrench into the equation this time.
Current Config is:
NT 4.0 w/sp6a
Exch 5.5 w/sp4
Purposed new configuration:
Win 2000svr (member) w/sp2
Exch 5.5 w/sp4
I have not been able to find any documentation on this, and didn't know if
any of you had tried this. I am doing this getting ready for our AD
conversion and would like all my member servers to be 2000 as prior to going
to AD. I can't upgrade the current server to 2000 as it is a BDC (I
know...not my choice). I know I could always do the new one as a NT4.0
member then do a OS upgrade, however I am very wary of doing OS upgrades, I
prefer to have them done as fresh installs.
TIA
Jeff
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