I have planned for July an upgrade of all our workstations and servers to
W2K. The question concerns the servers. The consultant and I decided, in
order to keep all of my system settings, it would be best to do an upgrade
from NT40 to W2K rather than start over with fresh install of W2K.
Normally I like to wipe and start fresh, but in this case, keeping all the
tweaks and setups I have made over the past 2 years seems to override the
cleaning out of any existing problems that a fresh install would provide.
I think there may have been some discussion on this a few months ago in the
group. But I wondered what the general feeling is on this. Am I making a
bad move here? Or will upgrading the OS, done properly, work?
The guy I'm working with is very knowledgeable, capable, and has done this a
lot. But this is one of those "Depends On Who You Ask" kind of issues. I
trust his judgement, but a second opinion never hurts.
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
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W2K. The question concerns the servers. The consultant and I decided, in
order to keep all of my system settings, it would be best to do an upgrade
from NT40 to W2K rather than start over with fresh install of W2K.
Normally I like to wipe and start fresh, but in this case, keeping all the
tweaks and setups I have made over the past 2 years seems to override the
cleaning out of any existing problems that a fresh install would provide.
I think there may have been some discussion on this a few months ago in the
group. But I wondered what the general feeling is on this. Am I making a
bad move here? Or will upgrading the OS, done properly, work?
The guy I'm working with is very knowledgeable, capable, and has done this a
lot. But this is one of those "Depends On Who You Ask" kind of issues. I
trust his judgement, but a second opinion never hurts.
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
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