Windows Server 2003

[Big Papa]

Any of you Sys Admins here ever had the pleasure of upgrading a Windows Server 2003 Standard box to 2003 Enterprise? If so, I would appreciate any input. I am going to have to perform this upgrade on my Exchange 2003 Server, we need to get above the 4GB RAM limitation of Server Standard. Thanks.

 

[iambrutus]

Any of you Sys Admins here ever had the pleasure of upgrading a Windows Server 2003 Standard box to 2003 Enterprise? If so, I would appreciate any input. I am going to have to perform this upgrade on my Exchange 2003 Server, we need to get above the 4GB RAM limitation of Server Standard. Thanks.

 

[Big Papa]

 

[OCBucksFan]

Does Microsoft even have an upgrade path for that? I have never tried, we had two Windows 2000 Advanced Servers that were upgraded to 2K3 Enterprise, and I think we actually wiped and did clean installs, one was our exchange server, we ended up building a second server, migrating all the mailboxes to it, installing and moving back. It was a long process but in the long run well worth it.

 

[Big Papa]

Does Microsoft even have an upgrade path for that? I have never tried, we had two Windows 2000 Advanced Servers that were upgraded to 2K3 Enterprise, and I think we actually wiped and did clean installs, one was our exchange server, we ended up building a second server, migrating all the mailboxes to it, installing and moving back. It was a long process but in the long run well worth it.

Yeah, that is a supported path. I would do the second server/migration path if I could buy a new server. I have some servers I could use for a new one, but it would be a lateral move. To me, too much work for just a lateral move onto older hardware. Next year will be the year we implement a new Xchange box, and we will also probably step up to Xchange 2007 at that time as well.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Yeah, that is a supported path. I would do the second server/migration path if I could buy a new server. I have some servers I could use for a new one, but it would be a lateral move. To me, too much work for just a lateral move onto older hardware. Next year will be the year we implement a new Xchange box, and we will also probably step up to Xchange 2007 at that time as well.

We're looking at Exchange 2k7 now, it's nice because I will finally get a new server due to the x64 architecture.

 

[Big Papa]

We're looking at Exchange 2k7 now, it's nice because I will finally get a new server due to the x64 architecture.

Yeah, I am going to pimp out the new one. I think the Enterprise Edition of Windows supports up to 32GB of RAM. I am going to try to get to at least half of that with at least 4 processors. How big is your Information Store?

 

[iambrutus]

How big is your Information Store?

wow papa, you dont really even know him that well and you're already asking about size - you are pretty forward