Upgrading hardware on a 2000 Server

[pessimist]

Good afternoon everyone

I have a basic W2k Server with Active Directory; DNS and Web Services running on it. I mainly use it for backing up client systems with images and general document backups. This originally started on a test machine and eventually became a general server.
The system is only running a P3 700 with 512 ram. I would like to upgrade it to a P4 3.0 with 2 GB of Ram. Does anyone have procedure/tutorial/??? website or ?? to accomplish moving the "OS (system)" to the new box?


Thanks in advance

 

[Davetoo]

My question is why are you wanting to move to a more powerful machine? Is it being stressed? slowing down your network?

Reason I say this is usually a server like you describe can handle normal network chores without a problem. My initial DC is a 500Mhz system running with 1GB RAM. My second DC is a 900Mhz machine with 1GB. The only reason they have 1GB is a got a great deal on some core memory, so I bought it. The systems didn't really need it.

These two systems are both file servers, my main DC is also running DNS, DHCP and is also doing printing chores (although I have a new print server in place and will begin migration this week).

If your server is doing it's job without creating any network issues, I'd be inclined to leave it alone.

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