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How to add a second exchange server to a domain

I have exchange running on a sbs 2003 server, all iwors well. I have bought another server installed win2003 on it and want to add a second exchange server to it. I have installed the exchange software but am not sure what to do to configure it so it belongs to the exchange domain and routes messages correctly.

Can someone give me the basic steps needed to get routing to work on the second server...or point me to a technote or something.

thanks

rakeshmiglani

once you install exchange it automatically detects the already present Exchange ORG in the AD and joins it. If you open Exchange system manager you would see two servers listed there. one would be your old one and the other your new server.
create a mailbox on the new server and try to send email to an existing user on the old server.

martinmcginley

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unfortuanely it is not there in the exchange manager... is there a way to add it manually?

rakeshmiglani

are both these servers in the same AD domain..

martinmcginley

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yes the both are...first server is sbs 2003 second server is win2003 std (exch 2k3on both)

rakeshmiglani

is exchange installed on the new 2003 server

rakeshmiglani

Well.. you had mentioned that this is SBS.. i forgot the make a note of that.. my mistake.

The following article states

"When you run Exchange 2003 on a Windows Small Business Server-based network, Exchange 2003 cannot be part of a larger Exchange 2003 organization. Because Windows Small Business Server is installed at the root of the Active Directory forest, you cannot install Exchange 2003 components that belong to an existing Exchange 2003 organization. "

List of components that are included in Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842690/en-us

martinmcginley

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Thanks for that - I am still confused after reading the tech note, perhaps it is the termonolgy used...I am trying to add an exchange server to exisiting domain.

So in the last sentence it says "you cannot install Exchange 2003 components... " does this mean that b/c it is part of an existing sbs exchange domain no other exchange components (including servers) cant be added to the exsiting sbs domain?

Please clarify.

Thanks

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Sembee

You can install Exchange in to an SBS domain.
What you cannot do is install Exchange on to an SBS server.

martinmcginley - can you define the exact steps that you went through?

What you should have done was...

1. Install Windows.
2. Install Service pack and the components Exchange requires.
3. Add to domain.
4. Install Exchange
5. Service Pack Exchange.

It has to be the same Windows domain as the SBS server and the machine should not be a domain controller.

Simon.