Friday, October 06, 2006

Upgraded 1x Windows 2003 server to R2


I have planned for this upgrade for the past one month, finally got the time to do it today. I expected that the whole exercise would last at least half a day, but I managed to complete it within an hour.

The upgrade itself was pretty simple, just run the setup and it automatically up from SP1 to R2 in just 5 mins! However, after the reboot, there was a slight problem, the web application could not be launch. It was later found that one of the web application services was not up, once it was started, it was working fine.

The good thing about the Windows OS is that everything is in GUI, but it's not so friendly when it comes to Disaster Recovery, especially when trying to restore data onto another machine.

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