Migrate Exchange 2000 OWA to Exchange 2003 OWA

[rgimenez]

Hi all,

I'm migrating a domain with Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. Now I have to install OWA in a new Windows 2003 server. When I try to install Exchange 2003 in this server an error is produced because I have the actual OWA running Exchange 2000. The error says that I have to upgrade all front-end servers before install a back-end server. The problem is that this will be a front-end server but I can't configure it as front-end server until I install Exchange 2003 on it.

The only solution that I find is upgrade the production Exchange 2000 OWA server to Exchange 2003 but I don't like it. Has anybody other solution to this problem?

Thanks.

 

[adcfaq]

FE 2000, BE should be 2000, this is by design.
you can't bypass this.

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Sr. Directory Services/Exchange Consultant

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[benzgc]

Try this article this is what I used to migrate from exchange 2000 to exchange 2003.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html

Hope this helps.
BENZ