Upgrade Path A Bit Different of a Question Exchange/Win 2003 Enterpris

[tekinfmgr]

Forgive me please if this spelled out more than one time in this forum, but I have a seeming unique to these posts.

I am running Exchange Enterprise 2003 SP1 on Windows 2000 Standard server with SP4. The AD is all Windows 2000 Standard as well. The Exchange server is a member server only.

I only plan to upgrade the Exchange server to Exchange Enterprise 2003 SP2, but first I want to upgrade the OS to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise edition. I must leave the AD on the domain controllers on Windows 2000.

Has anyone challenged this before or have any pointers for me? I have over 600 mailboxes and want to do it right the first time. Any ideas/concerns are appreciated!

I appreciate as always the info that I find in this form and to those contribute here.

 

[ShackDaddy]

This doesn't sound like a difficult upgrade to me, but I would just make sure you have a full backup of the server pre-upgrade.

I would upgrade Exchange to SP2, then upgrade the server OS, and then re-run the SP2 upgrade just in case.

The SP2 upgrade may have some features that make the OS upgrade more reliable, and then the SP2 upgrade may also have features/patches that aren't put in place in a Win2000 environment, thus I'd suggest running it again after the OS upgrade. It may not allow you to run it a second time, but I'm betting you can.

ShackDaddy

 

[58sniper]

full backup before
update your ASR before
upgrade
install services packs & configure any options
configure updating for IMF

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907747

install critical updates
full backup
update ASR

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)