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Disable Exchange part on SBS
I need to permanently disable Exchange on Small Business Server 2003.
What is the proper way of doing that and is there anything I should take a special care of?
The users already have an alternate email server in place and are using Outlook to access it.
Thank you
What is the proper way of doing that and is there anything I should take a special care of?
The users already have an alternate email server in place and are using Outlook to access it.
Thank you
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Thank you all for the comments.
I am just a tech guy and have to do what I was told to do whether I like it or not.
I was told to disable Exchange part of SBS and I am looking for safe way to do so.
Whether buying SBS to start with was a good decision is a good point but I was not involved with that.
So, I am back where I was. I need to disable Exchange in the way that AD, updates, SQL and everything else keeps working fine.
Please help me with that part.
Thank you for you help.
I am just a tech guy and have to do what I was told to do whether I like it or not.
I was told to disable Exchange part of SBS and I am looking for safe way to do so.
Whether buying SBS to start with was a good decision is a good point but I was not involved with that.
So, I am back where I was. I need to disable Exchange in the way that AD, updates, SQL and everything else keeps working fine.
Please help me with that part.
Thank you for you help.
Too bad that you don't think you can have any input into the situation since often these decisions are made by those that don't understand the potential of the technology they own. I would think that is something that should be advised to whoever made this decision.
So, the simple answer is the one Exchange_Admin provided. It should be noted that this will disable all SharePoint alerts if you use them. It will also kill your daily monitoring reports and health alerts. (Which my original suggestion would have done as well). The Windows Server 2003 SMTP service will keep running and does provide a bit of mail ability for the server, but again, you do lose the complete integration of messaging, calendaring and collaboration.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
So, the simple answer is the one Exchange_Admin provided. It should be noted that this will disable all SharePoint alerts if you use them. It will also kill your daily monitoring reports and health alerts. (Which my original suggestion would have done as well). The Windows Server 2003 SMTP service will keep running and does provide a bit of mail ability for the server, but again, you do lose the complete integration of messaging, calendaring and collaboration.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
Actually, I'm going to take back that recommendation. I just found out that if you remove Exchange you will not be able to install any service packs. Even if you have installed SBS SP1 there are times that it may need to be reinstalled (if you had to repair any other SBS service with reinstallation of that service, the SP would need to be reapplied and it won't allow the application of the Service Pack until it confirms that SP1 for Exchange has been installed -- and not having Exchange installed at all will cause it to fail)
See... you've started down a path that I seriously recommend against. SBS is really designed to work as a package. If there is some strong reason to not use the package, then perhaps SBS isn't the right solution for the company.
Jeff
TechSoEasy