RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
belatedly let me comment that I've done this several times in a test environment and the one thing I overlooked was the backup device; I still cannot get an Onstream tape device to perform properly under W2K. Roger Mackenzie (Glasgow University) -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 16:07 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) thanks for the advice..I have performed the upgrade on our test servers and everything went smooth..but like you said..I'll have the credit card handy..actually we have one (1) incident left with them so that should be ok... -Original Message- From: Jon Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) You should test first. If you can, get the same hardware and versions of NT 4 Exchange on a test box. Upgrade that box and see what happens. Otherwise, make sure you have a current support contract for your hardware vendor and a credit card handy so you can call Microsoft. Brushing up on your resume couldn't hurt either. Exchange should be OK in this case, but you never know. Every environment is different. That's why testing is a better option. You should probably ask this question on the NT/2000 discussion list. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Erdmann Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
the upgrade went perfect. our dlt backup device is operating correctly. Thanks for the info. -Original Message- From: Roger Mackenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) belatedly let me comment that I've done this several times in a test environment and the one thing I overlooked was the backup device; I still cannot get an Onstream tape device to perform properly under W2K. Roger Mackenzie (Glasgow University) -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 16:07 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) thanks for the advice..I have performed the upgrade on our test servers and everything went smooth..but like you said..I'll have the credit card handy..actually we have one (1) incident left with them so that should be ok... -Original Message- From: Jon Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) You should test first. If you can, get the same hardware and versions of NT 4 Exchange on a test box. Upgrade that box and see what happens. Otherwise, make sure you have a current support contract for your hardware vendor and a credit card handy so you can call Microsoft. Brushing up on your resume couldn't hurt either. Exchange should be OK in this case, but you never know. Every environment is different. That's why testing is a better option. You should probably ask this question on the NT/2000 discussion list. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Erdmann Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
Hello, Last year I did this in production (NT4 - W2K, MSX 5.5), and immediately afterwards downgraded the box from a BDC to just a member server (DCPROMO). One issue was POP Users were no longer able to authenticate. Reapplying latest MSX service pack fixed things up. There was also a Q article on the exact problem. FYI/FWIW: I'd recommend going with E2K SP2 if you do go for E2K later. It has fixed a lot of little problems we had with E2K SP1. Brent -Original Message- From: Roger Mackenzie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:47 AM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) belatedly let me comment that I've done this several times in a test environment and the one thing I overlooked was the backup device; I still cannot get an Onstream tape device to perform properly under W2K. Roger Mackenzie (Glasgow University) -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 16:07 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) thanks for the advice..I have performed the upgrade on our test servers and everything went smooth..but like you said..I'll have the credit card handy..actually we have one (1) incident left with them so that should be ok... -Original Message- From: Jon Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) You should test first. If you can, get the same hardware and versions of NT 4 Exchange on a test box. Upgrade that box and see what happens. Otherwise, make sure you have a current support contract for your hardware vendor and a credit card handy so you can call Microsoft. Brushing up on your resume couldn't hurt either. Exchange should be OK in this case, but you never know. Every environment is different. That's why testing is a better option. You should probably ask this question on the NT/2000 discussion list. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Erdmann Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
You should test first. If you can, get the same hardware and versions of NT 4 Exchange on a test box. Upgrade that box and see what happens. Otherwise, make sure you have a current support contract for your hardware vendor and a credit card handy so you can call Microsoft. Brushing up on your resume couldn't hurt either. Exchange should be OK in this case, but you never know. Every environment is different. That's why testing is a better option. You should probably ask this question on the NT/2000 discussion list. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Erdmann Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000)
thanks for the advice..I have performed the upgrade on our test servers and everything went smooth..but like you said..I'll have the credit card handy..actually we have one (1) incident left with them so that should be ok... -Original Message- From: Jon Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) You should test first. If you can, get the same hardware and versions of NT 4 Exchange on a test box. Upgrade that box and see what happens. Otherwise, make sure you have a current support contract for your hardware vendor and a credit card handy so you can call Microsoft. Brushing up on your resume couldn't hurt either. Exchange should be OK in this case, but you never know. Every environment is different. That's why testing is a better option. You should probably ask this question on the NT/2000 discussion list. -Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michel Erdmann Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) We are running (and have performed the in-place upgrade) on Compaq hardware. I recall we used a special 'primer' utility from them just before starting the actual upgrade to remove the NT4 specific drivers/agents/software which were incompatible with Windows 2000. Michel Erdmann -Original Message- From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: in-place upgrade to W2K (NOT Exchange 2000) Tomorrow I am upgrading our mail servers from NT4/SP6a, Exchange 5.5(SP4) to Windows 2000 Server/SP2. Just an upgrade of the operating system, not exchange 2000 or active directory. Has anyone experienced any problems that I need to know of, prior to the upgrade? As far as I know, it should be a seemless upgrade. Stick in the CD-rom and let it do it's thing. I will have to upgrade our raid controllers firmware and nt driver and also export/inport our verisign certificate to the new IIS. That is all I can think of...thanks for any advice before this critical task. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
