Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Installing Exchange 2003 and Configuring POP3, OWA and IMAP Google Search It I recently installed an Exchange 2003 Server.  The initial install was pretty painless although time consuming.  It seems like more of it could have been automated but at least the "task list" existed.  In the end I have two problems: The box I installed this on was also an Active Directory Server and the pseudo DNS server.  Therefore, there were a couple additional changes that I needed to make manually.  a) Change the TCP/IP settings for the NIC card to point back at itself for the DNS server.  In other words, I hard coded the NIC to use its own IP address as the DNS server.  b) In the properties of the DNS server I manually entered my ISP's (or your network's DNS server) DNS servers on the Forwarders tab. By default the POP3, IMAP, and Outlook Web Access protocols are installed on the server.  However, the actual services are configured as disabled.  You need to manually go into the Services MMC and enable them before they will start up.  Attempting to start them from the Exchange System Manager will result in a timeout with no indication as to the real cause of why they didn't start up. 11:46:02 AM   []    comment []

Which MSDN Documentation CD to Install? Google Search It If you subscribe to MSDN you are familiar with the fact that every quarter they come out with a new Documentation DVD.  This raises some difficult questions. Should I uninstall the previous version before installing the new version. When installing a new computer should I install the MDSN Documentation from Visual Studio.NET or just the most updated version from MSDN Documentation Will the new version keep the favorites list from the previous version.... something it has certainly not done in the past. The answers: Well, the new install won't uninstall the previous version for you but unless you are using some ancient technology that is no longer included in the new version you should probably uninstall the old version manually so as to recover the disk space. Install the latest.  If the MSDN Documentation came out after the VS.NET documentation then use the MSDN version and visa versa.  In my experience you do not need to even install the VS.NET documentation if you plan on installing newer MSDN Documentation. Dream on.... 12:35:22 AM   []    comment []

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