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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Amit Pawar - Infrastructure blog : Upgrade</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Upgrade/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Upgrade</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Upgrade paths available for Windows Server 2008</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/2008/02/04/upgrade-paths-available-for-windows-server-2008.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:27:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2821124</guid><dc:creator>apawar</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/comments/2821124.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/commentrss.aspx?PostID=2821124</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:54670d41-ca5d-4115-960c-393557b85649" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows" rel="tag"&gt;Windows&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Server" rel="tag"&gt;Server&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/2003" rel="tag"&gt;2003&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/2008" rel="tag"&gt;2008&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/R2" rel="tag"&gt;R2&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Upgrade" rel="tag"&gt;Upgrade&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Server%20Core" rel="tag"&gt;Server Core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="575" border="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="289"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you are currently running:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td valign="top" width="284"&gt;&lt;b&gt;You can upgrade to:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="289"&gt;Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2)&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td valign="top" width="284"&gt;Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition          &lt;br /&gt;Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="289"&gt;Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2)&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td valign="top" width="284"&gt;Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td valign="top" width="289"&gt;Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition (R2, Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2)&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td valign="top" width="284"&gt;         &lt;p&gt;Full Installation of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;There are a couple of important things to remember here.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;With the exception of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium, the table above applies to both x86 and x64 versions.&amp;#160; However, cross-platform upgrades (x86 to x64 or vice-versa) are not supported.&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;It is also not possible to upgrade from a previous version of Windows to Windows Server 2008 Server Core Edition.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2821124" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Windows+Server/default.aspx">Windows Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Enterprise/default.aspx">Enterprise</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Platform/default.aspx">Platform</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Upgrade/default.aspx">Upgrade</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/apawar/archive/tags/Windows+Server+2008/default.aspx">Windows Server 2008</category></item></channel></rss>