Remote Admin

[jmcg]

I have recently installed the adminpak from MS for remote administraiton of our Windows Srver 2003 Enterprise.
all seem to work fine until I try to view exchange (2003) detail on a user profiles. There is no exchange tab?
Is there a seperate feature or something, or is there a setting in Exchange that I should be looking at.

 

[itmt]

Hi,

You need to install exchange sytem manager on the machine to see the exchange admin tabs. By default it is installed on the exchange server.

Insert the Exchange 2003 CD, follow the onscreen setup, when it gets to the part about "typical" or "custom", do "Custom", then deselect everything except for the Exchange System Manager.

You need to have the prerequisites it lists installed, as well. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add Remove Windows Components, Select Internet Information Services, click Details, and check the IIS Management snap-in.

Also, make sure you have at least SP1 installed on your XP box.

Don't forget under ADUC to click View on the menu bar then Advanced Features to see the Exchange options.

Hope this helps - please let me know!

Adios!

 

[jmcg]

thanks itmt
Do I need an additional license to instal it on the remote PC or is it covered under the Exchange Licence?
Cheers

 

[itmt]

Hey JMCG,

There are no CAL's associated with Exchange System Manager so you can do as many as you like!

You can do this on all of your Domain Controllers; it will give all of your DCs access to the Exchange tabs.

Torro

Come on England!! Oh no, we're out already. :-(

 

[jmcg]

Cheers and I'm scottish so
only ;-)

 

[jmcg]

When i try to install just the Exchange Server 12Mb nothing seems to change.
When I select the option to install management tools it requires a domain membership.
I am trying to access customers server from my own pc which is not in their domain via VPN (more than 1 cust, more than 1 domain).
Is there something i'm missing?

 

[markdmac]

I suggest installing both the Admin Pack and the Support Tools. I can't recall which will give you the snap in for Remote Desktops but one of those two will. The snap-in allows you to store RDP connections (including passwords) so you can quickly connect to the customer servers.

As has been noted above, using RDP to the server will allow you to execute all the tools locally on the client side.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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