Alan, I assume you are running a backup software that backs up your exchange ds and IS online. To move to teh new server, install the new server with NT 4.0 use teh same server name as before. Shutdown the old server. Do not remove it from the organization yet. Install Exchange 5.5 using setup /r option. Select create a new organization and site. Use the same org and site names as before. Once the install is over, run optimizer immediately to move the exchange directories to same drives locations as the old server. Once done, apply the service pack with update /r. Once this is done, use your backup software to restore the DS and IS from teh latest backup. Once the restore is done, start the Exchange services. Your DS may fail to start with event IDs 124 and 1196. If this happens, delete the file edb.log from X:\exchsrvr\dsadata. Then run c:\exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /g /v /x /ds Once done you should reboot teh server, all exchange services should start up. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Alan Ciurzynski [mailto:alciur22@xxxxxx] Sent: February 11, 2002 4:42 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Moving 5.5 http://www.MSExchange.org/ Thank you for your reply. We are replacing an old server with a new one......keeping the same settings.... We have 1 PDC and 3 BDC's......we use dat tapes with automatic backups....daily, so backing up is not a problem.. ALAN ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: psraj@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')