Cris
Wed Oct 10 18:58:44 PDT 2007
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I realize you've already spent a fair amount amount of money but =
purchasing the technician kit at sbmigration.com would be a great way to =
go
You keep the domain intact, don't need much as your interim server, lots =
of pluses, not many minuses
Or yes...you could export your mailboxes using Exmerge as well as all =
your data and start over...lots of downtime for the business.
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Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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Please do not contact me directly regarding issues
<finster69@gmail.com> wrote in message =
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I am currently running SBS2K on a PowerEdge 2600 Server with 5 hot-
swapable 36GB SCSI drives in a backplane with a RAID 5 Config. It is
time to upgrade.
The server has 2 decent Xeons and 4 GB RAM so I did not think it would
be worthwhile to buy a new server.
I purchased the SBS2K3 R2 software and client upgrades along with
6-146 GB SCSI drives.
I would like to know the easiest way to install the six new drives and
the software as well as migrating Exchange personal mailboxes.
I only have 20 users, so recreating user accounts is no big deal.
Can I simply dump the mailboxes onto an external drive and import them
into SBS2K3?
If I run into problems, can I simply plug the original 5 drives into
their original slots and be up and running again?
Thanks for any help.
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