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Hi, curious if it's possible to upgrade an existing WinXP Pro setup to Server 2003 without a clean install, basically because SQL is setup and other important services. &nbsp;Reason for the upgrade is more than 10 computers will be accessing the server and will generate an error when pc 11 tries to connect, due to WinXP 10 unique IP sessions limit.
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Hi, curious if it's possible to upgrade an existing WinXP Pro setup to Server 2003 without a clean install, basically because SQL is setup and other important services.  Reason for the upgrade is more than 10 computers will be accessing the server and will generate an error when pc 11 tries to connect, due to WinXP 10 unique IP sessions limit.

Upgrade WinXP Pro to Server 2003?

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.

Windows XP

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

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).