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Preparing to install a new SBS2008 server to the network. Currently the office has a SBS2003 server in place.<br />
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My question is, can I somehow use the license on the original SBS2003 server as a standard server somehow?<br />
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To be clear, my intention is to take the SBS2003 Server's hardware, format it as new, and then use the original SBS2003 license to install, it as a Windows Server 2003 Standard server, to use it as a file or application server.<br />
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Preparing to install a new SBS2008 server to the network. Currently the office has a SBS2003 server in place.

My question is, can I somehow use the license on the original SBS2003 server as a standard server somehow?

To be clear, my intention is to take the SBS2003 Server's hardware, format it as new, and then use the original SBS2003 license to install, it as a Windows Server 2003 Standard server, to use it as a file or application server.



Can you convert a SBS2003 server to Win2003 Std. Server?

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 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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).