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Small Business Server 4.0 Upgrade

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by hgreene77

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Easy question:

Can I upgrade SBS 4.0 to Windows NT 4.0 and then to Win 2000 Server?

I tried going directly from SBS 4.0 to Win 2000 Server Upgrade. It does not work. Microsoft is recommending going from SBS 4.0 to SBS 4.5 to SBS Win 2000. This is NOT viable as we have lost the original prod reg key & micorsoft will not send us the free upgrade to SBS 4.5 so that we can turn around and buy the SBS Win 2000 version.

Help. Any ideas?

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by tori

No you can't do that. One of many reasons is the Exchange 5.0 that comes with sbs 4.0. To upgrade this to Exchange 2000, wich comes with sbs 2000, it must first be upgraded to 5.5 sp3, and that cant be done without upgrading to sbs 4.5.
What you can do is to install the sbs 2000 to another server and then migrate the sbs 4 data over to that server, but then you will need another server, of course.

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