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nt to sbs 2000

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A company is looking to put sbs 2000 on their network can their nt4 server be upgraded to sbs or will i need to do a clean install

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by thechas

Even if you can upgrade, I recommend a clean install.

If for no other reason than a clean install starts you with a fresh clean registry.

After doing a few upgrade installs, and seeing the upgraded systems run slower and have more problems than fresh installs, I no longer do upgrade installs.

Chas

by lordwalsingham

I agree with the first guy. NT is substantially different to SBS 2000 and you'll be forever chasing unsolvable demons It's a good rule of thumb when thinking about upgrading any Microsoft product to any other Microsoft product. Backup/migrate the stuff you care about and then wipe it! Alternatively, get another computer and set up new install on that then you can pull stuff across as needed, depending on what you have of course. Alternatively, get another disk and do it that way, you can alwaysgo backwards then and look at stuff you miss(ed).

Good luck!

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