installing exchange server 2003 on Vista

[Ric]

Is this possible? I can't get it to install, but after searching Microsoft
website I can't find anything to confirm that it won't work.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You can install the Administrative Tools for Exchange, but I am afraid you
can't install the software itself on Vista since it requires a Domain
Controller on a Windows Server System to tie into the Active Directory
service to provide its core functionality.

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Ric,

You have to install exchange on a server operating system not on workstation.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[ThePro]

You can install the Administrative Tools for Exchange, but I am afraid you
can't install the software itself on Vista since it requires a Domain
Controller on a Windows Server System to tie into the Active Directory
service to provide its core functionality.

OT, but Exchange Server does NOT require to be installed on a DC, and it is
not recommended to do so.

ThePro

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello ThePro,

But it still has to be installed on an SERVER operating system.

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Meinolf Weber
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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

My knowledge is Exchange Server requires Active Directory, AD requires the
server be promoted as a DC.

 

[ThePro]

My knowledge is Exchange Server requires Active Directory, AD requires the
server be promoted as a DC.

Then your knowledge is wrong. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875427/ .

Quote from this article "For performance and for scalability, we recommend
that you install Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 on a member
server instead of on a domain controller."

ThePro

 

[ThePro]

This is why I wrote OT...

ThePro

Hello ThePro,

But it still has to be installed on an SERVER operating system.

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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

A member Server within the Active Directory, there are dependencies, you
will have the Master DC, Child DC - which Exchange would be installed on.
Also that quote is a recommendation, not a requirement, look at Windows
Small Business Server, it installs all mission critical applications on the
same Server running as a DC, ISA, Exchange, SQL, and AD.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You might want to leave this question in the following ng:
microsoft.public.exchange.setup

 

[ThePro]

Wrong again.

There is no such thing as Master or Child DC in AD, there are DCs and member
servers. Exchange should be installed on a member server, not a DC.

SBS in NOT Exchange server, so your argument does not apply.

ThePro

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

SBS includes Exchange Server.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

An Exchange Administrator just confirmed my answers:

Exchange Server can be installed on either a DC or Member Server
Exchange Server has required Active Directory since Exchange version 5.5
Cannot be installed in workgroup mode.

 

[ThePro]

This is a common misconception. Exchanger Server and SBS are different
beasts.

ThePro

 

[Kerry Brown]

This is a common misconception. Exchanger Server and SBS are different
beasts.

They are different but an SBS server is also an Exchange server as Exchange
server is included with SBS.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I didn't say anything regarding their relation. I just said there are
dependencies. Exchange Server requires Windows Servers Active Directory to
provides core functionality. If you run a server at a Company where people
have to log onto a Domain, the users are created, stored and managed in AD.
So, Exchange Server utilizes that to create the mail stores for the users
within it. You have gone from Exchange on Vista to so many different topics.

 

[ThePro]

I just wanted to correct your remark that *seems* to be that Exchange Server
*must* be installed on a DC, which is not the case. If this is not what you
meant, then my apology. But if it is what you meant, you were cleary wrong.
Can you say it when you are ?

ThePro

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

But the Member Server would be a part of the Master Domain, so it would be
connected to Active Directory which Exchange Server requires to provide its
core functionality.

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

Wrong again.

There is no such thing as Master or Child DC in AD, there are DCs and
member servers. Exchange should be installed on a member server, not a DC.

SBS in NOT Exchange server, so your argument does not apply.

ThePro

SBS includes exchange 2003, and yes, it is installed all on the same
server machine. I know this because I have it at home.

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