Both. Another path for the upgrade, provided that you have a spare piece of hardware, would be to build up another Exchange Server in that site an migrate all the mailboxes and public folders. This would require no down time and be far less risky.
George Morse Nordson Corporation IT - Sr. Network Analyst 28601 Clemens Road Westlake, OH 44145 Tel: (440) 414-5594 Fax: (732) 623-6129 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading my Exchange 5.5 NT4 server to Win2000 - gotchas? Thanks. Is there an MS Q article about this or something? Or was this from past experience? Thanks. > After the 2K upgrade the Exchange 55 IS won't start. It will ask for a > DEFRAG. You will need to do this to get the IS started again. Be sure to > have enough disk space for the process. You can use a mapped network drive > for the temporary location. That is about the only big one. Also it should > only be a member server, don't make it a DC. > > George Morse > Nordson Corporation > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:40 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Upgrading my Exchange 5.5 NT4 server to Win2000 - gotchas? > > I forgot to mention I am also doing a full offline backup to tape of the > entire server and stopping the NAV for Exchange service (to manual) during > the upgrade... Anything else? > > > My Windows NT4 sp6a server running Exchange 5.5 SP4 box is finally going > > to be upgraded to Windows 2000. Shortly after I'll be upgrading to > > Exchange 2000. > > > > Are there any "gotchas" I need to worry about wiht the OS upgrade? Should > > I set all Exchange services to manual before the upgrade process? I have > > the hardware drivers and all that junk accounted for already. Just have > > never done an upgrade on a Exchange box... Thanks. > > List Charter and FAQ at: > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
