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&gt;&gt; we want the back end to stay as exchange 2003, and we want to upgrade the backedn to exchange 2007&quot; &nbsp; ???<br />

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>> we want the back end to stay as exchange 2003, and we want to upgrade the backedn to exchange 2007"   ???


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no we want to upgrade the front end server. &nbsp;leave the backend as 2003 is this possible we have 2 servers one as front end and backend
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no we want to upgrade the front end server.  leave the backend as 2003 is this possible we have 2 servers one as front end and backend

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we have a exchange 2003 front end and a backend. &nbsp;we want the back end to stay as exchange 2003, and we want to upgrade the backedn to exchange 2007. &nbsp;what components typically are installed for exchange 2007 as a front end server? any information you can give me on this scenario would be helpful thanks
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we have a exchange 2003 front end and a backend.  we want the back end to stay as exchange 2003, and we want to upgrade the backedn to exchange 2007.  what components typically are installed for exchange 2007 as a front end server? any information you can give me on this scenario would be helpful thanks

exchange 2003 front end

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.