Windows 2003 Server

[KH85]

At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

 

[Saltin]

There is an upgrade path available.

 

[KH85]

Thanks

i shall probly still format and do a clean install, as i dont like just 'updating'

 

[sak]

i dont know..how good a upgrade will be..but i am sure its will be avaliable. but its a BIG BIG PITA but i'd reinstall it a brand spanking new version. but then again i dont know what exactly u trying to do.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

 

[flubear]

wat softwares are u referring to toant103 ?

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

I have heard that only 60% of the software is compatible.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

for one thing, partition magic 8, and nikon view 6.0. SOmehting like that. I try running it in compatibility mode but that didn't work either. It would install but still won't work

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

I have heard that only 60% of the software is compatible.

I've heard that, but talking about NT to 2003. Only 60% of NT software works on 2003. Haven't heard anything about 2000 software though.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Rainsford

Originally posted by: lowtech

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

I have heard that only 60% of the software is compatible.

I've heard that, but talking about NT to 2003. Only 60% of NT software works on 2003. Haven't heard anything about 2000 software though.

The % of 2K software that works on 2K3 is much higher (probably upper 90's) than software designed for NT 4. The only software I can think of that doesnt run on 2K3 Server is Exchange 2000 server.

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: KHGamez
At the moment i am running Windows 2000 Server, if i was to get Windows 2003 server can i just do a *UPGRADE* to windows 2003 or will i have to format and reinstall everything?

Thanks in Advance
KHGamez

i'm running windows 2003 server here. Pretty good so far but some of the software won't install on server edition

for one thing, partition magic 8, and nikon view 6.0. SOmehting like that. I try running it in compatibility mode but that didn't work either. It would install but still won't work

For the record there are many applications that will not allow you to install them on the Windows Server lines because the vendor has a "server version" of their software that they want you to run on your servers. Some more examples of this would be Diskeeper and many Virus Scanners.

-Spy

 

[mikecel79]

The % of 2K software that works on 2K3 is much higher (probably upper 90's) than software designed for NT 4. The only software I can think of that doesnt run on 2K3 Server is Exchange 2000 server.

Very true. Most well written applications for 2k will work on 2k3. If it modfies the schema of AD you'll probably have problems with it. That's why Exchange 2000 doesn't work on 2k3 (this will probably change with SP4 of Exchange though). SQL 7 and SQL 6.5 also do not work on 2k3. But both were written to run on NT4 originally. Exchange 5.5 also does not work.