Use SBS as backend Exchange server and a 2003 front end.

[johncan20]

hi,

I'm just wondering if i can have SBS as a backend Exchange server and another server running 2003 server as a front end exchange server, using the exchange componants from the SBS disk, to provide OWA and RPC/HTTPS to the outside world without putting the SBS server, which of course is a DC on the internet.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

John

 

[ShackDaddy]

Add an FE server to your network? Yes, as long as you know how to configure it. It won't be with the SBS wizard. ;-)

If you are asking if you can use your SBS install disk to create an additional install of Exchange for the purpose of having a front end, the answer is no on the licensing front. And I don't think there's been much discussion about the ability to use the Exchange components on the install cd to install it on a non-SBS server, but I doubt you'd get through the install anyway, because licensing code and other things are all expecting an SBS environment on the installation server.

I don't know of any major technical issues, but licensing for an additional SQL or Exchange was a son of a gun before SBS R2 licensing came out. With the new R2 licensing, your client CALs for SBS will allow you to connect to another Exchange or SQL server in your local SBS domain as well as the one on the SBS box.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting