you can of course buy a used part on eBay, but that takes time to buy, to ship, to install, etc. That does not seem to be the case with your customer. They ran fine, in fact, I've got a few still running, but Dell does not support them anymore, I have a third party maintenance contract for them, and already have a pile of decommissioned models for spare parts. A PERC 6 means a 9th/10th gen model, or an early 11 th model, so we are talking about a 2008-2009 machine.
Sometime in the future there will be a new cipher/protocol/thingie that Lansweeper 6 or Windows 2003 won't support/work with, even with workarounds, and at that point you will have to migrate.Īlso, that Dell server won't run forever either. That question has been asked in the past, and at least on the forum, they haven't answered.Īnd you will have issues with Windows 2003 down the road, for instance thinks like this: I don't think anyone from Lansweeper will give you access to an older version, for security/liability/commercial/ reasons. yours could be a very specific situation, but even them. I don't know your environment, so my advice is based on "standard" setups.
And they already spent the money on the Server 2003 license so why not use it?Īnyway, is there an archive or FTP server I can pull the last version of Lansweeper that would run on Server 2003 from? There's nothing in the new version 7 that I need or want and I'm not a fan of running the latest thing just because it's the latest thing.
Yes I know I can probably find an old Core2 PC in a dumpster and put windows 10 on it for this but I would prefer NOT to have it running on a machine with a single disk drive that could crash at any time particularly when I have a grand old Dell server with a Perc 6 and a 15k rpm raid array of ultrascsi disks available.
(in other words - it's currently rock solid stable, depended on by the entire company as a critical server - don't eff with it) I don't really want to run Lansweeper on the new server because the new server is running HyperV, and it's running as a file server and domain controller on the hyperv host and Exchange 2016 in a virtual server, and I'm not really interested in c rap ping up the HyperV host or the exchange server guest with sql express or any of that. I would like to run the last version 6 that DOES run on Server 2003. However the new version of Lansweeper no longer runs on Server 2003. I'd like to repurpose the old box to a Linux application server and run their Server 2003 license in a virtualbox and then use it specifically for Lansweeper. Hi, I have a small 35 desktop customer who was running an old Windows 2003 server that I just replaced with Server 2016 on a new hardware box.