mthaler 0 Posted February 20, 2004 I have a small network using Win2k Server w/ Exchange 2000. I got a free copy of SBS2003 from MS at a training session and I am wondering how painful an upgrade it would be? Anybody try this? Is it worth it? I REALLY don't want to do a clean install, I would rather do an upgrade if that were possible. Thanks for any imput. Maurice Share this post Link to post
Vermyn 0 Posted February 20, 2004 You'll have mucho trouble with Exchange. It's a real pain to do an in-place upgrade of Exchange and you cannot have two SBS servers in the same network, so you cannot migrate mailboxes to another machine for an upgrade. I think if I were in your position, I wouldn't do it. Also, if it's an SBS 2003 evaluation, it will eventually expire (probably six months) which means you get to reformat and do something else. Share this post Link to post
mthaler 0 Posted February 20, 2004 Well it is a FULL version that does not expire. I do want to learn the new version. It sounds like my best bet might be a clean install, but just out of curiosity what is the pain in the Exhcnage upgrade? Share this post Link to post
mthaler 0 Posted March 2, 2004 Oh yeah, and the other thing is that the previous version is NOT SBS so I would not have two SBS's running on the same network. Does that mean that I could set up a second server to upgrade the exhange from the first one? Share this post Link to post
sapiens74 0 Posted March 5, 2004 Do a clean install. Thats what MS recommends. SBS 2003 is so easy to install its scarey Share this post Link to post
