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Migration 98 to XP

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by kuizad

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Hi!
We are in the process of migrating our servers from WindowsNT 4.0 to Windows2000. and the clients from Win98 to WinXP.

Migrating the servers is fine. What i want to know is can i use RIS on Windows2000 server to upgrade the Win98 clients with WindowsXP. Please note, its upgrading Win98 to XP and not Win2K professional.

If possible, then is there any special care that has to be taken?

It would be good if someone can provide some guidelines

thanks and regards
kuizad

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by quintar51

You can't use RIS to upgrade. RIS installs a fresh install and wipes everything out that was there previously. It looks like you'll need to upgrade manually.

by kuizad

okay, assuming that i do a fresh install, can i still use RIS to deploy XP from Windows 2000 server

by beermonster

Hi,
Deploying xp from ris is covered in the technet article entitled (funnily enough) -

"How to Deploy Windows XP Images from Windows 2000 RIS Servers"

You'll find it by going to microsoft.com/technet
and searching for Q304314

by kuizad

Thanks BeerMonster. I have checked the article. We will try out this deployment.

For now i will close this post.

regards
kuizad

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