Re: Need Advise - Upgrading Windows 2000 Server to 2003.

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Hello nirvana,

To upgrade/migrate IIS with load balancing better choose IIS newsgroup:
microsoft.public.inetserver.iis
microsoft.public.inetserver.misc

I would try an inplace upgrade in a test lab first. Depending on the additional applications you should also check the vendors website about.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Thanks for your speedy response.

Sorry I should have made myself more clear. In my setup we have a
mixture of Web Servers and 3rd party application servers.

I am going down the route of freshly installing Windows 2003 and
migrating the settings over. The reason for doing a fresh install is
we have a base build for 2003 and the migrated servers will have a
clean slate. Issues of upgrading willl not arise.

Here is what i need clarification about.
The web servers are load balanced, how can i migrate the load
balancing over
to my new setup for 2003? Ideally I would like to migrate maybe ip
settings,
network load balancing settings, host file entries, routing tables,
services
listing, IIS settings etc. What else should i be considering?
3rd party application servers have tweaked around with windows
settings for a few years so we are not sure from a OS point of view
whats changed. Maybe ODBC, application specific hotfixes, versions of
.net and msxml etc.

What i would like to do is for any single server write a script or
something that will export all windows settings that are applied, so
that it can be imported into the fresh install. One point to remember
is that I also need to be confident this is going to work as there are
2 servers involved in nlb.

OR

Would it be easier to just upgrade to 2003 and let windows retain
existing settings?



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