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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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2.12. Upgrading from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition

Problem

You have a server running the Standard Edition of Exchange 2000 or 2003, and you want to upgrade it to the Enterprise Edition because your database has grown past the 16 GB limit of the Standard Edition.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Launch the Exchange setup utility (setup.exe) from the product CD or installation point.

  2. Click Next at the initial welcome screen.

  3. Accept the license agreement and click Next.

  4. If prompted for your 25-character product key, fill it in, and click Next.

  5. When the Component Selection page appears, set the Action for the Microsoft Exchange component to Reinstall, then click Next.

  6. Click Next on the summary screen.

  7. Wait for the installation to complete. The Exchange services will automatically restart.

  8. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  9. In the left pane, select the Servers node beneath the AG that the target server is a member of. Check the server type shown in the righthand pane to verify that the server type no longer says Standard.

Discussion

The actual product differences between the Standard and Enterprise Editions are relatively small, as shown in Table 2-1, but they vary somewhat between Exchange 2000 and 2003. In both Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003, the Standard Edition software cannot be part of a Windows cluster, and it is limited to a total of two databases per server: one public database and one mailbox database, neither of which may exceed ...

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