Exchange 5.5 sp 4 and win2K

[Guest_imported]

can I use exchange 5.5 sp5.5 on win2K ?

 

[age]

It does work. I have been told by a few people that Microsoft won't support the combination though. Is that true??

 

[scavngr]

Microsoft does support this and it does work. There are a few pit falls during a fresh installation but they are easy to get by. I currently have 7 exchange servers and 3 of them are win2k

 

[vijmat]

Note :- do not load the Active directory on an exchange 5.5 box running on Win 2000 Server. This is because both (Actice directory and exchange) use the same LDAP port.

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

None of these issues is a problem; the methods for implementing Exch 5.5 on win2k are well documented.

- Recommend not to use a DC as an exch server.
- Start the install as normal and you will be prompted that this software is not compatible, continue past this message and complete install.
- Reboot and then apply SP3 as this is what provides the win2k compatability.
- Check that the LDAP ports are not in conflict by looking at the services that are running, checking the event log for errors and running NETSTAT -A from the command line to list open ports (check MS KB) for more details.
- Have a beer
- I would not implement sp4 unless you have a specific problem to solve as sp3 is very stable, sp4 has issues (also well documented)

 

[age]

TheOtherKiwi, can you point me in the direction of some more info on the problems with SP4 and Win2000? Cheers mate.

Adrian.

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

Go to the M$ knowledgebase (

http://search.support.microsoft.com)

and select "Exchange Server 5.5 and others" then look for a match on "sp4". This should give you about 119 hits. Have a browse through...