Exchange 2003 to new hardware 2

[Diffy1]

Hi!

I'm looking to move our Exchange server to new hardware. We will probably also upgrade it to Exchange 2007 possibly next year. Does Exchange 2003 work on a 64 bit version? Before I even look at moving Exchange I want to make sure the new server can handle an Exchange 2007 upgrade in the future (Windows 2008/Exchange 2007/32bit and 64 bit).

Many thanks!

Diffy

 

[58sniper]

No - Exchange 2003 doesn't support 64 bit OS. Even if it did, you couldn't do an in-place upgrade to 2007, since that's not supported anyways.

If you're looking at transitioning to 2007, you really should look at going straight to 2010. No sense in going to a 3 year old solution that's already outdated by then.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[xmsre]

It's going to be a forklift either way. Why not just go for Exchange 2010? It went RTM yesterday and will be available in November.

 

[Diffy1]

Thanks for the heads-up guys. Will look at Exchange 2010.