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BES Express running on obsolete Exchange server

At some point in the past, before I came to work for my company, BES Express 5.02 was installed on the company's mail server (Exchange Server 2003). A few years ago, a new Exchange Server (2007) was set up, all mailboxes and public folders were migrated to it. It looks like the former sysadmins were reluctant to decommission the old Exchange server (2003). The physical server itself is still good and can continue to run BES Express but Exchange Server 2003 is obsolete and should be uninstalled. Does BES Express require that it run on an Exchange server? If not, when I installed Exchange Server 2003 from the server that is running BES Express, is there anything that I shouldn't uninstall or need to (re)install after the Exchange Server removal in order for BES Express to continue to function normally?

Manpreet SIngh Khatra

Ideally BES isnt on the same but i would say Stop BES and uninstall Exchange and bring BES up back

http://www.blackberryforums.com/bes-admin-corner/250156-removing-exchange-2003-bes-5-0-3-a.html

- Rancy

steve352

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Rancy,

Agreed that BES shouldn't be on the same server as Exchange but I was asking about BES Express (BESX). Just not sure if BESX has been stripped of some components that it relies on an Exchange server install for.

Steve

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Simon Butler (Sembee)

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steve352

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Simon,

I think I will go with your solution. Thanks for that!

Steve