XP Pro Upgrade to Server 2000/2003

peter212693 · 5 Apr 2006 at 16:44

Dose anyone know if this is possible at all?

XP Pro to Server 2000/2003 stright upgrade not a clean install.

cheers

Sone · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:00

defintly not to win2000, 99% sure you can't do it server 2k3. Seems a crazy idea to me to want to upgrade.

oddjob62 · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:15

Sone said:
defintly not to win2000, 99% sure you can't do it server 2k3. Seems a crazy idea to me to want to upgrade.

Yeah i can't imagine why you would want to. Almost certain it's not a possible upgrade path.

Burnsy2023 · 5 Apr 2006 at 17:24

Indeed, I doubt you could upgrade as its an OS for a totally different market.

Why are you upgrading out of interest?

Burnsy

peter212693 · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:01

burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, I doubt you could upgrade as its an OS for a totally different market.

Why are you upgrading out of interest?

Burnsy

Its at work we currently have a intranet server used on XP Pro but we thought it would be better on 2003 server allowing more people to acces it at one time?

Burnsy2023 · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:10

peter212693 said:
Its at work we currently have a intranet server used on XP Pro but we thought it would be better on 2003 server allowing more people to acces it at one time?

Makes sense. But how are you currently operating an intranet with only 10 concurrent connections?

Anyway, the answer to your question, is you'll probably need to reinstall.

Burnsy

Jimathy · 5 Apr 2006 at 18:55

Probably cheaper to get something like Microsoft Small Business Server, probably cost something like £800 for 10 users. Or Linux with Apache for nowt

Otacon · 5 Apr 2006 at 19:06

Or just install apache on XP, if that's all you're bothered about. There are other benefits oh having a 'proper' server of course, but horses for courses.

peter212693 · 5 Apr 2006 at 20:03

burnsy2023 said:
Makes sense. But how are you currently operating an intranet with only 10 concurrent connections?

Anyway, the answer to your question, is you'll probably need to reinstall.

Burnsy

Its only a small company with not a lot of users

zetec452 · 5 Apr 2006 at 20:54

peter212693 said:
Its only a small company with not a lot of users

SBS 2003 would be a perfect product for you.

Otacon · 5 Apr 2006 at 21:14

For serving a website? Bit overkill

There are other benefits to be had as I said. But if it isn't needed, then why go down that road?

zetec452 · 5 Apr 2006 at 21:27

Otacon said:
For serving a website? Bit overkill

There are other benefits to be had as I said. But if it isn't needed, then why go down that road?

:S. Didn;t read the thread. Bye