Share via

Windows Server 2008 Upgrade path

  • Article

During the roadshow I delivered a few days ago I've received a lot of questions about the upgrade path for Windows Server 2008. Now the "Ask the Performance team" blog posted a very interesting article about the upgrade path and resource limitations of Windows Server 2008.

Here is the upgrade path for Windows Server 2008:

If you are currently running: You can upgrade to:
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2) Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition

Read the full post if you want more information about upgrading to and resource limits of Windows Server 2008

Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2009
    I am running Server 2003 R2 x86 and want to do an inplace UPGRADE to server 2008 x64.  Is this supported? Thanks, rby@boonedam.us