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by teinfo

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One PDC, two BDC, five member servers. Exchange 5.5 and IIS 4.0 run on BDC. MS_SQL 6.5 runs on member server(Planned upgrade to 7.0 within weeks). IIS runs on another member
server in DMZ.

If I upgrade from NT 4.0 to WIN2000, will Exchange server 5.5, IIS 4.00 and SQL 7.00
able to run on WIN2000. If any compatible isue exists, what is the best solution?

Any idea will help.

Thanks

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by rkelly

Your upgrade should work providing all your server applications are service packed to the hilt.

Before you do anything make sure that you have reliable backups of everything. Check that your IIS scripts etc work on IIS 5 as there may be compatibilty dfferences between the scripting for ASPs between the versions (check the knowledge base, but I know that enabling extra processing threads is a different registry key so if you've changed the way IIS 4 works you will have to recreate ALL the changes manually afterwards).

by leo.valmores

I dont think you will have incompatibilities issues when you upgrade to WIN2K, provided that in your long term plan you will not use MS' Active Directory Services. Because if you do, this will create havoc to your accounts.

You have to research MS's sites on Migration issues from NT to WIN2K.

Hope this helps

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