Exc. 5.5 moving from NT4 to W2k

[corgaff]

We want to upgrade to E2K on W2K, and prefer to do an in-place upgrade. However, in our test lab we've had inconsistent results upgrading our PowerEdge servers from NT4/SP6a to W2K, and I don't want to blow up my Exchange server in a failed W2K upgrade. MS Knowledge Base (Q280770 and Q224977) seems to suggest an alternative...

In our test lab I installed W2K Server, and Exc 5.5/Sp4, with my edbs in the same structure as the source machine. I also set the services not to start on boot. I shut down Exchange on source machine, made file backups of the directore and store files, and copied them to the server in the test lab. Next I ran eseutil /d on the priv and pub edbs; then I started the Directory service and ran isinteg -patch.

Both eseutil and isinteg ran OK. All services started OK. Everything looks OK. Has anyone else done this and was it successful?

 

[Alshrim]

I tried something close to this .
The one thing I had problems with was DNS.

When setting up the IMS - it could not find a host name configured within the Network Control Panel Applet. Of course -- The Network applet in Win2K, doesn't have a HOST NAME spot to add domain.com to ... and i was not running an AD.

anyone know a work around?

 

[Alshrim]

Ah.. found my own answer... thanks to this list ..

you have to go into the systems settings/network/more and there add your domain.com in.