Larry Rachal
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I need to migrate a two server 2003 network to 2012
We have a small (low budget) church. We have two 2003 servers, one runs exchange 2003. Both are DCs. I was finally given the $ for the software upgrades. But, as I have been reading posts I think I cannot do an in-place upgrade to 2012r2 and exchange 2013. There are only about 20 users and the exchange database is about 20gb. The servers are dell 2900 and 2950 with 32gb ram and 2ghz xenon cpus.
With that, any suggestions on how to get this done w/o a new box?
With that, any suggestions on how to get this done w/o a new box?
If there's no specialist software involved and if it's basic use ie word excel, emails your better of starting fresh. New DC and member server with exchange
You cant do a inplace upgrade of Windows from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012
Since you have exchange 2003 you need to upgrade to exchange 2010 before you can install and migrate users to the final version of ex2013
You cant do a inplace upgrade of Windows from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012
Since you have exchange 2003 you need to upgrade to exchange 2010 before you can install and migrate users to the final version of ex2013
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I was thinking that since I have to start from scratch I would just export the user mailboxes and then import them once the new exchange server is setup. That might be easier than installing 2010 then 2013. Any thoughts?
suggest you to upgrade from 2003 to 2008 first and then 2008 to 2012 - this will be a seamless migration then.
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I agree to the expert. Forgot to mention before - before you do anything like this take at least two backups with restore testing. things go wrong as this is IT and Microsoft.
one option is to consolidate all roles that you have onto one system, then use the remaining server as the one to install 2012 on and setup as the new with HYPER-V and then setup VMs ......
2900 is the 4 processor 4U system, with the 2950 2U
Which drives, 3.5 or 2.5" sas/Sata?