Restore IAS settings from W2k server?

I've been running IAS on our W2k server for years without any problems. I
upgraded to Windows 2003 on this server, but when it came up the IAS server
would not start. After I uninstalled and reinstalled IAS on the 2003 server
I restored the dnary.mdb and ias.mdb files to the c:\winnt\system32\ias
directory. The IAS server starts now, but quickly shuts down.
Here is the error message:

Event ID: 7023
The Internet Authentication Service service terminated with the following
error:
One or more arguments are invalid

How can I get my existing settings from Wk2 server IAS settings over to 2003?
Carlton.

=?Utf-8?B?Q3doaXRtb3Jl?= <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:4F5C53BC-4254-4586-8805-(E-Mail Removed):

> I've been running IAS on our W2k server for years without any
> problems. I upgraded to Windows 2003 on this server, but when it came
> up the IAS server would not start. After I uninstalled and
> reinstalled IAS on the 2003 server I restored the dnary.mdb and
> ias.mdb files to the c:\winnt\system32\ias directory. The IAS server
> starts now, but quickly shuts down. Here is the error message:
>
> Event ID: 7023
> The Internet Authentication Service service terminated with the
> following error:
> One or more arguments are invalid
>
> How can I get my existing settings from Wk2 server IAS settings over
> to 2003? Carlton.
>
>

The problem is that the IAS database format is different between Win2k and
Win2k3. What I did was load up a Win2k VM, install IAS, load the config
from my production W2k server (via netsh), performed in in-place upgrade of
the VM to Win2k3ee, dumped the upgraded IAS db via netsh and loaded it on
the real W2k3ee IAS server.

HTH,

Wayne Tilton

Wayne,
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll try it on a spare server and see what
happens.


"Wayne Tilton" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?Q3doaXRtb3Jl?= <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:4F5C53BC-4254-4586-8805-(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > I've been running IAS on our W2k server for years without any
> > problems. I upgraded to Windows 2003 on this server, but when it came
> > up the IAS server would not start. After I uninstalled and
> > reinstalled IAS on the 2003 server I restored the dnary.mdb and
> > ias.mdb files to the c:\winnt\system32\ias directory. The IAS server
> > starts now, but quickly shuts down. Here is the error message:
> >
> > Event ID: 7023
> > The Internet Authentication Service service terminated with the
> > following error:
> > One or more arguments are invalid
> >
> > How can I get my existing settings from Wk2 server IAS settings over
> > to 2003? Carlton.
> >
> >
>
> The problem is that the IAS database format is different between Win2k and
> Win2k3. What I did was load up a Win2k VM, install IAS, load the config
> from my production W2k server (via netsh), performed in in-place upgrade of
> the VM to Win2k3ee, dumped the upgraded IAS db via netsh and loaded it on
> the real W2k3ee IAS server.
>
> HTH,
>
> Wayne Tilton
>