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Installing second exchange 2007 server

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quazee

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Feb 20, 2008
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We're working on installing a second exchange 07 server onto our domain. The first is installed on server 03 and we're installing the second onto server 08.
After the installation we are running through the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer and getting errors.
Has anyone done a similar installation?
 
Be nice if you listed what errors you were getting...

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.
 
I restarted the Remote Registry service and all is good. I am having problems with the test mailbox I created though. I can send e-mail out (although it does seem to take a while), but I'm not recieving any.
I created an internal connector on the new server to recieve from the original server. That didn't do it though.
 
We handle the management and installation of LAN's for small businesses. The new Exchange will probably become our only Exchange server in the future, but right now we are just trying to work out the installation/configuration kinks. Better to make the mistakes on our own network than on a clients.

Both Exchange servers have hub, mailbox and client access roles. Does one of the Exchange servers need to have Edge transport role?
 
And the Edge role is not mandatory. You can receive mail from the internet directly on your Hub role server if you want, and can even load the anti-spam filters there.

If you are using a smarthost or 3rd party mail-scrubbing service, there's really no need for Edge at all, IMO.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting
 
But in a business where an extra server isn't possible due to cost, hub is fine.
 
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