I though about it, but would rather not have the downtime of an upgrade
closely followed by the downtime from a server upgrade. Setting up the
domains, moving the accounts and moving the users mail isn't a big deal once
you've got the scripting done. If convert.exe will get the job done this
would be my preferred method.
I'm moving from:
NT4 SP6a
pII 450 512M RAM
Hardware mirrored IDE
To:
Win2K SP2
Dual 1 GHz PIII Coppermine 1 Gig RAM
4 15000 RPM IBM SCSIs in a RAID 5 Array for System (C:) and mailboxes (D:)
on an Adaptec controller w/64 Meg RAM
2 15000 RPM IBM SCSIs in a RAID 0/1 (Mirrored) Array for the spool (E:) on
another Adaptec w/64 Meg RAM
This seems like quite a jump, but I don't want to do this again anytime
soon, and with the addition of quite a few domains and now that I'm using
Declude to scan every incoming and outgoing message, I feel the upgrade is
necessary. My current server runs at about 75% to 90% CPU usage all
throughout the day, but the real slowdown is those IDE drives. Separating
the spool/logging from the OS/mailboxes seemed like a good idea, and the
dual separate SCSI controllers were a pain to set up but now function
marvelously. Testing on the new box looks real impressive.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Convert.exe
Scott, could you just go ahead and get the old machine up to V7 and then
move everything over?
I'll be doing the same thing in a few months. What OS are you using (old&
new)? I''m thinking about a W2K server w/dual CPUs to replace a aging
Pentium Pro (whopping 200Mhz!) running NT4sp6a
Chris
At 12:45 PM 10/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm trying to move to a new server, and wanted a fresh install of ver. 7 on
>the new machine (old server is ver. 6). I've already written the scripts
>necessary to create the accounts and domains on the new server.
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>My only question is about the mailboxes. I've heard about convert.exe and
>Ipswitch's KB says that it is run after an upgrade to 7. Should I run
>convert.exe after moving the mailboxes to the new machine? Does it
>automatically run for all the mailboxes, or do I need to throw some
>parameters to it?
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