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Widows Server 2003 x64 Upgrade
I need a little advice. Does anyone know if Windows Server 2003 x64 standerd can be upgraded to Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise without a problem?
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What's the need driving the upgrade from SE to EE? Any OS upgrade is going to be a significant operation, and while it's officially supported by MS, that doesn't mean it won't have an adverse effect on something like Exchange.
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Wanted to add additional RAM. The system has 4GB of RAM
I'd test it in a lab before doing the production upgrade then, for sure, to see how much downtime it's going to incur for your users and whether Exchange is going to need any hand-holding after the fact.
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I should be alright with the $GB but I was hoping to add a bit of a buffer with more. Email is minmal here with
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Let me finish that thought. I should be alright with 4GB of RAm just wanted to add a buffrer zone. The email usage is minimal here with only 50 users really accessing email with only 20 on the system at any given time. About 150 available maiboxes.
In that scenario I wouldn't run the risk of an in-place upgrade, myself.
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It just seemed that a great deal of RAM was being used for the amount of mailboxes used, the majority of which are under 10MB
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