Yes, definately.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "VirtualConnect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] upgrading from NT4 to W2K
> Hello Mike,
>
> We did the conversion of Imail, IIS, SQL 7 in about 30 hours but we did
> totally clean installs of everything. No show stoppers (except that MS
DTC
> issue where the answer was in the "Special" Microsoft knowledge base
that's
> not available to the public).
>
> Ipswitch's first response was to do a registry backup to take the Imail
info
> to new server but when they found out it was NT4 to Win2K they added some
> warnings. There is special MS tool to convert registry. That scared me
so
> I just did clean install and transferred mailboxes from 2 Imail Databases
> and 1 SQL7 Database. I have specific instructions if you decide to go
ahead
> just ask & I'll post.
>
> David
> ******************************************
> David E. Setzer
> VirtualConnect Technologies, Inc.
> www.virtualconnect.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Imail Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] upgrading from NT4 to W2K
>
>
> > Thanks to all for the good info.
> >
> > I think I'll sit and wait awhile before doing the upgrade. It's not
urgent
> > anyways.
> >
> > Install without formatting was going to be my approach. Imail is no
> problem
> > but IIS/FP and SQL are a different story.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Harp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: upgrading from NT4 to W2K
> >
> >
> > > At 11:11 AM 3/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >you had 348 megs ram ?
> > > >
> > > >you need 3 times that in win2k
> > >
> > > As Andrew pointed out, you don`t need 900MB's of RAM to "run" Windows
> 2000
> > > Server.
> > >
> > > The more the better, but you can "run" the server fine on 256MB of
RAM.
> > >
> > > With regards to your question, I would say your chances of running
into
> > > problems are
> > > more likely with the upgrade path, instead of a clean install. I can`t
> > > think of any tips,
> > > except that you check to see that all your hardware is compatible and
> you
> > > have the
> > > latest BIOS on your motherboard.
> > >
> > > In other words, Microsoft support the upgrade path, but it's probably
> not
> > > the most
> > > reliable route. Clean install all the way!
> > >
> > > Good luck!
> > >
> > >
> > > --Dan
> > >
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