Yes still [OT]
The problem we found with Frontpage was that in FP98 it was completely valid
to have one frontpage web site directory with another.
i.e. you could have a frontpage site in x:\Inetpub and another frontpage
site at x:\inetpub\website
The Upgrade wizard fails when it tries to install fp 2000 extensions in this
situation. (And it doesn't tell you why during the process, you only find
out when run from the command line)
Steve
Steven Moore
Internet Development Engineer
Research Machines
+44 1235 823522
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Greene
> Sent: 07 March 2001 14:10
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] upgrading from NT4 to W2K
>
>
> [ 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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