I have a question for you, hope you can answer that.

I have a Windows Server 2000, with built in Exchange 2000 all in Small
Business Edition.

Now this company is expanding and 35 users my exceed to 70 users.

So the existing Small Business Edition won't work for them.

I recommended a standard business edition, exchange 2003 side by side,
join the domain.

My question to you is, if we install a new Standard Business edition
with exchange 2003, can we migrate the existing Exchange 2000 to new
server?

Do we need to join to the existing server?

Is it not a good idea to buy a new Exchange 2003 standard business
edition?

How easy it is to migrate the emails and stop the old server, would
there be any conflicts?

Can we remove or stop the exchange server 2000 which is small business
server so it will not conflict with the server?

What is your opinion?

Re: SBC 2000 to SBC 2003 by Marina

Marina
Tue Aug 17 04:02:38 CDT 2004

Hi Eric,

70 users is still good deal for SBS 2003. You can easily upgrade or migrate:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/upgrade/default.mspx


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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Eric Vartanian" <evartan@comcast.net> schreef in bericht
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> I have a question for you, hope you can answer that.
>
> I have a Windows Server 2000, with built in Exchange 2000 all in Small
> Business Edition.
>
> Now this company is expanding and 35 users my exceed to 70 users.
>
> So the existing Small Business Edition won't work for them.
>
> I recommended a standard business edition, exchange 2003 side by side,
> join the domain.
>
> My question to you is, if we install a new Standard Business edition
> with exchange 2003, can we migrate the existing Exchange 2000 to new
> server?
>
> Do we need to join to the existing server?
>
> Is it not a good idea to buy a new Exchange 2003 standard business
> edition?
>
> How easy it is to migrate the emails and stop the old server, would
> there be any conflicts?
>
> Can we remove or stop the exchange server 2000 which is small business
> server so it will not conflict with the server?
>
> What is your opinion?
>
>