Exchange Server Forums

Upgrading from E2K to E2003

Users viewing this topic: none

Logged in as: Guest

Printable Version

All Forums >> [Microsoft Exchange 2003] >> Installation >> Upgrading from E2K to E2003

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Limited time MSExchange.org offer! -- 1.Sep.2008 1:00:00 PM

TechGenix and SolarWinds have partnered to provide free copies of SolarWinds Exchange Monitor to all visitors who join the MSExchange.org Forums. SolarWinds Exchange Monitor is a handy desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. Learn more about Exchange Monitor and the free offer!

Upgrading from E2K to E2003 - 10.Nov.2003 5:26:00 PM

pjhutch

Posts: 3055
Joined: 21.Jul.2001
From: W Yorks, England
Status: offline

I trying out a test upgrade from Exchange 2000 (Ent. Ed) to Exchange 2003 and although the upgrade seemed to work. I have noticed a couple of things:

a)The M: drive (Web Store) no longer appears!

b)I cannot access OWA at all, I tried Basic Auth for our std login screen but refuses access?

Any ideas?

Post #: 1

Featured Links*

RE: Upgrading from E2K to E2003 - 10.Nov.2003 5:46:00 PM

Henrik Walther

Posts: 6849
Joined: 21.Nov.2002
From: Copenhagen, Denmark
Status: offline

Hello PJ,

a)
Is normal, MS has removed the M: drive in Exchange 2003, also see: Drive M Mapping to IFS Is Not Present by Default in Exchange Server 2003

b)
Do you use SSL ? If yes then try to enable Forms Based Authentication under properties of HTTP protocol in ESM. That will enable the new login oage for OWA 2003.

(in reply to pjhutch)

Post #: 2

RE: Upgrading from E2K to E2003 - 10.Nov.2003 5:52:00 PM

pjhutch

Posts: 3055
Joined: 21.Jul.2001
From: W Yorks, England
Status: offline

>a)
>Is normal, MS has removed the M: drive in >Exchange 2003, also see: Drive M Mapping to IFS >Is Not Present by Default in Exchange Server 2003

Aahh! Tried looking for that article in KS KB w/o success. Thanks for link.

b)
Do you use SSL ? If yes then try to enable Forms Based Authentication under properties of HTTP protocol in ESM. That will enable the new login oage for OWA 2003.

Is SSL required for E2003? I'll set up a CA service and see what happens. Strange that I cannot login. That was the only thing that I could test out. Thanks

BTW, We have 1000s of users on our system, my little test system only has a few users. Would a Forest Prep/Domain Prep take longer (took 7 mins or so on test system) on a large live system. Anyway to calc how long?

(in reply to pjhutch)

Post #: 3

RE: Upgrading from E2K to E2003 - 10.Nov.2003 6:57:00 PM

Henrik Walther

Posts: 6849
Joined: 21.Nov.2002
From: Copenhagen, Denmark
Status: offline

No OWA 2003 doesn't require SSL, only if using Forms Based Authentication, otherwise it's just like OWA 2000.

How long the forest/domain prep will take, really depends on where you run it from, the best would be to run them directly from a DC/GC.

As all the schema/AD changes needs to be replicated to all DC/GC's, it can take a fair amount of time, but if you have a reasonable fast network, you shouldn't notice.

Sorry don't know of any calc utils.

(in reply to pjhutch)

Post #: 4