Re: Upgrade from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 fails...why?
- From: "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:47:12 -0500
Hi Benman,
Regarding the license, does the message not say something to the effect of
'after the upgrade, you will only have 5 licenses'?. In otherwords, your
licenses will be reset to 5, and you'll need upgrade CALs for any additional
licenses you need?
In any case, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes; trying to do an in-place
upgrade is risky enough, never mind on an SBS that is a fair way off what
would be considered a baseline condition (no exchange, begs the question
no_what_else?)
A logical next step, even if you were to succeed with an in-place upgrade,
would be application of SBS SP1, and that is known to be problematic unless
the SBS is known to be within certain baseline configuration parameters. You
could be getting in deeper and deeper with an in-place upgrade.
I believe that the upgrade to SBS 2003 is very, very worth while. But I also
believe that you should consider a different way to get there, versus an
in-place upgrade. I know what I'd do - a swing migration. From experience, I
built a SBS2k and put it in production just before SBS 2k3 was released,
because the customer couldn't afford to wait. I was very careful to keep the
installation clean, as it was our intention to in-place upgrade as soon as
possible. While the in-place upgrade was successful - it still took a lot of
work to get it there - and, we weren't ever really happy with it and ended
up doing a swing migration of that server. It turned out beautifully :-).
--
Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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SBS Rocks !
"Benman" <bmannino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1120677309.252429.43230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I just recently purchased a Small Business Server 2003 Premium Upgrade
> package that I attempted to install for one of my clients over the
> weekend. I got the upgrade hoping it would be the path of least
> resistance, but no such luck.
>
> They currently are running Small Business Server 2000 on a dual Athlon
> MP based server with 120GB mirrored drives. I installed CD #1 and
> launched the Setup program which stopped very shortly thereafter
> dispalying a series of system requirements that were not met. There
> were 3 items categorized as "installation-blocking":
>
> One of them was that SQL Server 2000 would need SP3 - no problem.
>
> The second stated that I had to remove the Windows 2000 Admin Tools -
> done.
>
> The third, however, was the one that baffled me. It said that I had
> more than 5 client access licenses, and that I would need to revert
> back to 5 before continuing with the installation.
>
> No biggie I figured, and I went into the control panel and double
> clicked on the Licensing icon. I got a message saying that I couldn't
> do it from this control panel - I would need to run the Small Business
> Server Manager off the start menu. But guess what.. it's not there!
>
> I tried installing the Small Biz Server 2000 Service Pack1 and it tells
> me that Small Biz Server is not installed. But the Licensing option in
> the control panel thinks that it is! I installed SBS 2000 on this
> server over 2 years ago, and I cant recall if there were any problems
> installing it. I may have skipped some of the features that we did not
> need (Exchange Server, for one), but I really dont remember running
> into any problems.
>
> I have been installing all critical updates and service packs to
> Windows 2000 Server (currently SP4) with no problems or error messages.
>
> So now I cant proceed with the upgrade over what seems like a trivial
> licensing issue. I can understand if I had too few licenses, but it
> says I have too many!
>
> I tried reinstalling SBS 2000, but it doesnt recognize my Win2K
> installation because its SP4 which didnt exist when I first installed
> SBS. I hesitate to start messing with a working install before seeing
> if there is anything else I can do.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
.
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