Suggest migrating to XP. I had asimilar situation and sucessfully migrated across to XP,by putting the farm into compatibility mode, and creating the same published apps on the new XP farm. The user had no idea it had been done Once all the servers had come across, put the farm back into native mode. I followed the instructions from Brian Madden guide - thanks Brian - and it all worked a treat. regards, Phil -----Original Message----- From: John Knightly [mailto:jknightly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 September 2003 17:47 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] acquisition of 1.8 farm I've got an XP FR3 farm, and I've just acquired a 1.8 farm of 5 LB'd servers that I'm required to host and manage. I much prefer the management capabilities of MFXP and would like to migrate the 1.8, but I'm thinking the path of least resistance is to keep 1.8 as is. Any thoughts? John Knightly