From: Ellen K. 

My intuitive response would be native SS backup and restore, but obviously
your friend should not depend on my intuitive response!   I'm
sure there's stuff in Books Online and/or the MS website.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:49:05 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote in message :

>Ellen K. wrote:
>
>> SS7 to SS2K will not present any problems with any database
>> functionality per se, 2K just has more functionality than 7.   Most
>> stuff that changed changed from 6.5 to 7.  Somewhere in BooksOnline
>> there is a nice little table that explains the differences.
>>
>
>Ah good. So he can do a backup & then restore on the new box/sqlserver...?
>
>Or is it a kinda copy the dir's & run this migration util...?
>
>Adam
>
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:52:25 +0100, Adam Flinton
>>  wrote in message
:
>>
>>
>>>A mate of mine has a NT4S, Exchange 5.5, SQLServer 7, ASP based company.
>>>
>>>NT 4 EOL is approaching & as such he's gone down the
Win2K3S route via a
>>>new Dell server thingy & the latest of each of the above.
>>>
>>>A) Is migrating Exchange 5.5 > 2k a straight forward thing or is it
>>>fraught with little nasties?
>>>
>>>B) Ditto wrt SQL7 > SQL2k?
>>>
>>>Any obvious difficult/manual to migrate bits?
>>>
>>>
>>>Adam
>>
>>

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