Re: Cant upgrade to SBS2003!

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From: SuperGumby [SBS MVP] (not_at_your.nellie)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:52:13 +1100

OEM product cannot be used for upgrade. It is designed to be sold with the
hardware on which it is to run and cannot legally be installed onto existing
hardware. This is a pure OEM product restriction, it is not particularly
SBS.

If by some stretch of the imagination you are able to legally use this media
with this hardware the easiest way will be 'format c:' but the processes
used by www.sbsmigration.com could also be applied.

"Kiosk" <jramos@netcom.com> wrote in message
news:u2p2u0l0k9nrafafq4oq2safg7mk1qk9ej@4ax.com...
> Help!
> I bought an OEM version of SBS2003 STD for a new server build, however
> it wont let me upgrade the existing version of windows 2000, says SBS
> cannot upgrade the current version of windows, which is windows 2000
> STD.
>
> What can I do? I read that upgrading to SBS2003 from Win2k was a
> supported path....thanks

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