IIS/AD on one machine, Exchange on the other...how?

agw_01

agw_01

agw_01

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Hi guys,

I've got two machines running Windows Server 2003 R2.

One is a Domain Controller and runs IIS with SMTP and NNTP installed, let's call that A. The other is supposed to be an Exchange 2003 server and is known as B.

Now, when I try to install Exchange on B (after logging on with a domain account) I get a message telling me that IIS/SMTP and NNTP aren't installed, as you'd expect.

However, being on a domain, I would have thought machine B would be able to find those services running on machine A. Is this at all possible or just a losing battle? I was hoping to run Exchange and MSSQL on machine B leaving A to handle ICS and IIS.

Cheers :)

P.S. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I wasn't sure whether it was a networking query.
 
Exchange 2003 requires IIS, SMTP and NNTP for OWA and exchange services.

You could setup a front end server (server A) and have just exchange as a backend server (server B). You can also set exchange to relay SMTP mail through Server A if you wanted to.
 
You have to install IIS on your exchange box as exchange now uses the SMTP stack that comes as part of IIS rather than its own. This cannot be avoided.

However you can offload OutlookWebAccess to another IIS box. If you are using this.
 
Why do you want to relay?? :confused:

Enable SMTP only on the Exchange box, you don't need it on the other one.
 
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