Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 in-place upgrade to Server 2003 withAD

Will I run into any problems and has anyone tried it, to do an in-
place upgrade to Server 2003 R2 from a single Windows Storage 2003 R2
machine running AD.

Storage Server is not listed on Microsoft's Upgrade Paths for 2003 so
that why I'm raising the question.

Thanks

Ben Benoit

Hi,

Thanks for posting here.

As you mentioned, it's Microsoft supported upgrading path from Windows
server 2003 Storage Server R2 to Windows server 2003 R2. For supported
upgrading path to Windows server 2003 R2, please review the following
article:

upgrade to Windows Server 2003 R2
http://technet2.microsoft.com/window...5-6a98-46c9-a9
1a-1de30d7ad02e1033.mspx?mfr=true

With that being said, only the following OS versions are supported to
upgrade to Windows server 2003 R2:

oWindows Server 2003 with a service pack
oWindows Server 2003 without a service pack
oWindows 2000 Server
oWindows NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or later
oWindows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition with Service Pack 5 or later

To achieve the goal, you may consider 'migrating' to Windows Server 2003 R2
instead of upgrading. In a domain environment, we can promote a new Windows
server 2003 R2 as additional DC at first, and then use FSMT (File Server
Migration Toolkit ) to migrate all the files and folders residing in
Windows server 2003 Storage Server to new Windows server 2003 R2. Finally,
demote this Windows server 2003 Storage Server.


More information about FSMT (File Server Migration Toolkit):
=======================================

FSMT helps the system administrator easily migrate and consolidate folders
from servers between different computers in a domain.

You can download this tool from here:

Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...eae-930a-42b0-
b595-66f462f5d87b&DisplayLang=en

For more details about this tool, please refer to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...ocs/msfsc.mspx

I hope this helps. If anything is unclear, please post back.

Thanks.

Sincerely
Morgan Che
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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--->Storage Server is not listed on Microsoft's Upgrade Paths for 2003 so
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--->Thanks
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--->Ben Benoit
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Thanks for the great response, that was the conclusion I also came to
to do a migration unfortunately this is a smaller school and they
ordered this server before me and it came to a budget decision to go
cheep and got the Storage Server so that being said they don't have
the money for a new server any time soon to migrate to. So although
it's not supported can a in-place upgrade be done.


Thanks

Ben Benoit

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

If you encounter any break/fix issue, please feel free to let me know.

Have a good day!
Sincerely
Morgan Che
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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--->
--->Thanks for the great response, that was the conclusion I also came to
--->to do a migration unfortunately this is a smaller school and they
--->ordered this server before me and it came to a budget decision to go
--->cheep and got the Storage Server so that being said they don't have
--->the money for a new server any time soon to migrate to. So although
--->it's not supported can a in-place upgrade be done.
--->
--->
--->Thanks
--->
--->Ben Benoit
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