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Upgrading to Windows 2003 Server

We took advantage of a hardware failure yesterday to upgrade franklins.net to Windows Server 2003! I can't believe how smooth the migration went.

Moving the SQL 2000 Server was a piece of cake. I just attached to the old data files and everything worked! I had never done that before. Nice work, MS.

Of course, rebuilding the websites was a pain, but it won't be next time because of IIS 6. It stores all the web server configuration data in an XML file. Good riddance to a really time consuming and frustrating manual process!

It was (for once) an enjoyable experience upgrading to a new version of Windows Server.

 

Published Nov 20 2003, 09:15 PM by Carl Franklin

Comments

 

James said:

Site is faster now. Thanks.
November 20, 2003 11:17 PM
 

Marc Shiker said:

I noticed the speed difference as well. Glad it went smoothly.
November 21, 2003 8:21 AM
 

Carl Franklin said:

It's interesting, because the new machine isn't much faster than the old machine. It's the new OS/IIS that makes it faster.
November 21, 2003 8:36 AM
 

Prakash koshy... said:

I want to upgrade my 2000 server machine. I have a new server hardware and i'd like to know the procedure for the migration to a new hardware setup.
I have configured DNS, DHCP,

i would like to know the procedure to migrate active directory, DNS, DHCP.

Can u help me .....Please...
July 11, 2004 5:12 AM

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