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dloweqsc -> Future Planning, Testing & Migration (24.Apr.2006 2:48:24 AM)

For my customers, I want to start purchasing HW that will run E12 in the future, being 64Bit machines.

Since I can't install E2k3 on a 64 Bit OS (according to what I have read) that means I have to lay down WIN2K3 x32 on the hardware.  Fine.

I can't see how, without the use of a swing server and a couple of rebuilds to upgrade to E12 on that same peice of hardware.  It's a pain, but we charge by the hour, so...

My question is, can run E2K3 on Virtual Server 2005R2 on top of a Windows 2003 x64.  The layers:



Exchange 2003 SP2
Windows 2003 R2 - Standard 32 Bit on a 32 Bit VM
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Virtual Server 2003 R2 - 64Bit
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Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise - 64Bit and E12



I guess my questions are:

1) Will the above work, or will there still be a exchange storage driver issue?
2) If this does work, then can this be the path to a migration in the future by moving / exporting the E2K3 databases down to E12 running in the 64 bit Environment?

Or am I on drugs?



Henrik Walther -> RE: Future Planning, Testing & Migration (24.Apr.2006 11:16:35 AM)

Hi Darryl,

Even though you prepare the hardware in your Exchange 2003 org by using 64-bit hardware already now, you still nedd to re-install when Exchange 12 RTMs. Exchange 12 doesn't support in-place upgrades either from Exchange 2000 or 2003.

With that said then yes you should be able to run E2K3 in a VM on a 64-bit server running W2K3 64-bit version, then move mailboxes between the E2K3 and E12 servers (because of the changes made in the E12 store you can't move the databases directly to the E12 servers).



dloweqsc -> RE: Future Planning, Testing & Migration (24.Apr.2006 12:48:36 PM)

Thanks.  I'll lab it out and let everybody know how it goes.



parzival -> RE: Future Planning, Testing & Migration (24.Apr.2006 3:15:31 PM)

I tried to move Exchange mailboxes between E2K3-E12 and E12-E12.. but the CTP build does not allow this yet.. (as far as I;ve seen).. it comes up with one message.. MAPI error..




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