Re: Is anyway to get around this? by Alaa
Alaa
Mon Apr 10 11:15:27 CDT 2006
Dear John,
you are most welcome. as i mentioned in my post , you need to follow the
order for the upgrade to exchange server 2003.
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regards
Alaa Al-Ankar
"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7317B52B-B817-4B64-8B15-EC3971262A26@microsoft.com...
> Thank you so much for your help.
>
> BTW, > Question, what is the version of your Exchange Back-End Clustered
> Servers ? are they 2000 or 2003 ? do you need to upgrade windows as well
> to
> 2003 ?
>
> We have exchange 2000 clustered backend servers now and we are going to
> introduce the new hardware servers to replace exchange 2000 backend
> servers
> as well.
>
> "Alaa Al-Ankar" wrote:
>
>> Dear John,
>>
>> Question, what is the version of your Exchange Back-End Clustered Servers
>> ?
>> are they 2000 or 2003 ? do you need to upgrade windows as well to 2003 ?
>>
>> in order upgrade your exchange 2000 environment, you need to:
>>
>> 1. Extend the Schema first with the new attributes for Exchange Server
>> 2003.
>> 2. Upgrade all your front end servers.
>> 3. upgrade all your back-end servers.
>>
>> there is no work arround on this as far i know, but from my experience
>> you
>> can do one of the followings:
>>
>> 1. only upgrade the current exchange fron-end servers to exchange 2003,
>> then
>> install exchange 2003 on the new servers and join them to the current
>> exchange organization. then later on you can uninstall exchange 2003 from
>> the
>> old or retired servers and remove them from your exchange organization.
>> or
>> 2. remove the Front-End option from both your exchange 2000 front end
>> servers , allow time for replication, then install exchange server 2003
>> on
>> your new servers then configure back the fron-end option on all your new
>> exchange servers which will be the front end servers, but in this case
>> you
>> have to redirect all your external emails delivery to the back end
>> servers so
>> that you will not lose any emails sent to your organization during the
>> time
>> you take to finish the installation of the new front-end servers.
>>
>> 3. you can install windows 2000 with exchange 2000 on the new servers,
>> then
>> configure the new exchange servers as front-end servers, then upgrade
>> exchange on these new servers to 2003, then upgrade the windows to 2003,
>> but
>> this a long process
>>
>> so i advice you to in-place the current exchange front-end servers to
>> exchagne 2003 then install a fresh setup of exchange server 2003 on yuour
>> new
>> servers, then remove the front-end option from yor retired servers and
>> add
>> this option on your new exchange servers front-end.
>>
>> if you want to trasfer the ip address from your current front-end servers
>> to
>> the new exchange 2003 front end servers, you can assign a temp ip address
>> for
>> the new front-end servers, then after your successfully removes the
>> retired
>> front-end servers from your network, you can change the ip address of the
>> new
>> front-end servers.
>>
>> hope that this answer helps you in deciding the plan you are going to
>> take
>> to solve your problem.
>>
>> if you need more help, please let me know.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Alaa Al-Anakr
>> "John" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > We are going to retire all exchange 2000 servers with new hardware
>> > w/exchange 2003. But, when I installed exchange 2003 on the new
>> > server, it
>> > says that I have to update the windows 2000 frontend servers first. I
>> > have
>> > two exchange 2000 frontend servers and two clustered exchange backend
>> > servers. So, I have to update the Exchange 2000 frontend servers in
>> > place.
>> > Is anyway to get arond this since we are going to use new hardware for
>> > exchange 2003 frontend servers?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.