Whichever method you choose, remember to be sure to follow Q152959 and its successor article for Exchange 2000 to be sure, since each move will involve the "first" server in the site. The articles are badly titled; they apply to any server that holds those special roles.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Scharff Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:38 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Swing / Swing back Upgrade question.... I'd swing to 5.5 and then swing back to an upgraded E2K server. No hard reason why, just feels better all other things being equal. On 2/13/03 13:17, "Joe Pochedley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At the very beginning of the year I finally managed to install Win2k and AD into our environment (more management concerns than technical stopped me in the past)... Everything with that upgrade went pretty smoothly... Now it's time to upgrade our Exch 5.5 SP4 server to Exchange 2K... When all is said and done, we want to have Exch 2K running on the same hardware that our present Exch 5.5 install. Instead of doing a direct upgrade, I'm under the impression that doing a swing / swing back style upgrade would be better as I need to upgrade HD space on the server in the process... I have a temporary machine that should be able to handle the load as the swing server for a week or two while I rebuild the present Exch box... Since the temporary machine is really only a workstation with 1Gb RAM and an IDE RAID, and is normally only part of my test environment, I don't want to leave Exch on it permanently.... Unless someone can tell me why this approach is a bad idea the question I have is this: Should I make the temporary swing server an Exch 5.5 server or go ahead and make the move to Exchange 2000 on the swing machine? I'm looking for pro's and cons of either method. Thanks in advance for any advice! Joe Pochedley If you have time to do it twice, you had time to do it right in the first place. _________________________________________________________________ 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]
