[ OT ]
Hi Mike,
A couple of tips, as I just completed doing the same thing (Imail 6.02, IIS4 +
FP98 on WinNT SP5 --> Imail 6.06, IIS5 + FP2000 on Win2000 SP1):
Microsoft is now offering an "IIS conversion utility" which will move all of
your IIS4 config's to your IIS5 setup. I tried using it and it gave me errors,
but if you can get it to work, it may save you considerable time.
Our main issue was with FrontPage websites. We copied over our webfiles from the
old server, then in order to install FP2000 extensions on them, we had to
install, then uninstall, then install again the extensions on each site.
Apparently this was the only way to convert the file structure of each site from
FP98 extensions to FP2000 extensions.
Some of the websites, after following this process, lost their borders. In order
to fix these sites, we had to download them into a FP2000 client from the old
IIS4.0 web server (which we had not yet wiped clean) and republish them one by
one to the IIS5.0 server. This resolved the problem.
In the process of making our conversion, we decided to use NTLM authentication
on our FP2000 websites rather than Basic Authentication (clear text). As a
result, none of our FrontPage customers could publish to their sites any more.
We had to change all of them to Basic Authentication to resolve the issue. The
alternative would have been to have all of our dialup FP customers modify their
DUN settings to "Log onto network," a setting which we have found conflicts with
our NAS's (PM3's, AS5200, and Computone PowerRack).
We did note that FP98 clients can publish to their new FP2000 extended-sites
without any hitches besides those mentioned above.
In all, the conversion process took WAY more time than we expected, and two
sleepless nights, among 2-3 people!!!
In the end, I am happy we made the changes.
Good luck,
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Imail Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:51 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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