ISA with Exchange 2000 and running VPN

[jjgraf]

Ok here is my problem.

I need to deploy ISA with VPN and Exchange running on the Same machine.

I get ISA installed and working on the W2K server and routing traffic to the Internet no problems. i then deployed VPN. still no problems able to get connected and still browse the web.

I then Install Exchange 2000 on the server and start to Configure the SMTP forwarding and relaying. As i'm testing this i Another SMTP server on the network i configure to relay to the Exchange gives error messages

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Unable to contact smtp server 192.168.1.22.

Connection attempts repeatedly failed with error 10061 (Connection refused by remote end).
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I then start to test the connection using ping i get back (Request time Out). It took me an 3 hours to figure out that ISA services Manager causes this. If i stop this serivce i can again ping the Server. and Exchange is running.

I contuined to test by turning off Exchange and all other Serivces that run accross TCP/IP trying to see if ISA and another service are not geting along to no avail.

I then removed ISA and then Reinstall it and still causes the problem. I then remove Exchange from the Server and reintalled ISA to no avail.

I haved search MS knowledge base to no avail.

Please help.

 

[spouseele]

Hi jjgraf,

running Exchange on the same machine as ISA is not an adviced configuration. ISA is a firewall. So, the less services you run on a firewall, the less problems you get and the most likely you can tune your configuration secure ;-)

Have a look at

http://www.isaserver.org

and do a search in the message board. Maybe you can find there some answers.

Greetings,
Stefaan