Official upgrade path to Windows 2003 standard to R2?

[Guest Fox1977]

I need to upgrade a couple of live windows 2003 standard edition

servers to R2 so I can use DFS replication. I have contacted our

software supplier to ask them how much an upgrade is but they say it

isn't available as an upgrade. Is it possible to do this and what is

the licencing situation. Do I need to buy a Win 2003 server R2 full

licence to upgrade the licence Windows 2003 server standard I have

already got. Seems a bit of a crazy way to do it.

 

A couple of posters on here say it is possible to upgrade 2003

standard but you need to have the right R2 version to go with your

installation (retail, volume licencing, MSDN). How do i go about

checking what version I am actually running on the server. I have got

a licence but when i sent the media down to the datacentre I think

they ended up using different media as the one I sent did not boot for

some weird reason.

 

Any tips gratefully received

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Official upgrade path to Windows 2003 standard to R2?

 

Call them here.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295539

 

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"Fox1977" wrote:

>I need to upgrade a couple of live windows 2003 standard edition

> servers to R2 so I can use DFS replication. I have contacted our

> software supplier to ask them how much an upgrade is but they say it

> isn't available as an upgrade. Is it possible to do this and what is

> the licencing situation. Do I need to buy a Win 2003 server R2 full

> licence to upgrade the licence Windows 2003 server standard I have

> already got. Seems a bit of a crazy way to do it.

>

> A couple of posters on here say it is possible to upgrade 2003

> standard but you need to have the right R2 version to go with your

> installation (retail, volume licencing, MSDN). How do i go about

> checking what version I am actually running on the server. I have got

> a licence but when i sent the media down to the datacentre I think

> they ended up using different media as the one I sent did not boot for

> some weird reason.

>

> Any tips gratefully received

>

[Guest Jabez Gan [MVP]]

Re: Official upgrade path to Windows 2003 standard to R2?

 

Hey,

 

I was in the same boat and I was told that you need to purchase a brand new

OS to get the R2 functionality. It is not avail as an upgrade.

 

However if you have multiple copies to be used with R2, try calling up MS's

sales.

 

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Jabez Gan [MVP]

Microsoft MVP: Windows Server

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MSBLOG: http://www.msblog.org

 

"Fox1977" <foxj77@gmail.com> wrote in message

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>I need to upgrade a couple of live windows 2003 standard edition

> servers to R2 so I can use DFS replication. I have contacted our

> software supplier to ask them how much an upgrade is but they say it

> isn't available as an upgrade. Is it possible to do this and what is

> the licencing situation. Do I need to buy a Win 2003 server R2 full

> licence to upgrade the licence Windows 2003 server standard I have

> already got. Seems a bit of a crazy way to do it.

>

> A couple of posters on here say it is possible to upgrade 2003

> standard but you need to have the right R2 version to go with your

> installation (retail, volume licencing, MSDN). How do i go about

> checking what version I am actually running on the server. I have got

> a licence but when i sent the media down to the datacentre I think

> they ended up using different media as the one I sent did not boot for

> some weird reason.

>

> Any tips gratefully received

>