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We use a Windows 2000 server to host our website. &nbsp;It is not a domain controller, just a standalone server. &nbsp;Over the years, we've added scores of users to the system, to allow them access to certain parts of the website. &nbsp;<br />
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We now want to move up to a Windows 2003 server. &nbsp;How do we go about transferring all the local users and groups from the Win2K system to the Win2K3 system?
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We use a Windows 2000 server to host our website.  It is not a domain controller, just a standalone server.  Over the years, we've added scores of users to the system, to allow them access to certain parts of the website.  

We now want to move up to a Windows 2003 server.  How do we go about transferring all the local users and groups from the Win2K system to the Win2K3 system?

Transferring local users and permissions from Win2K to Windows 2003

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).