It is my understanding that Exchange Server 2003 Standard cannot be a backend server, however site we have inherited has a frontend server running Ex 2003 Std and a backend server running Ex 2003 Std and the mailboxes are available. I thought that the frontend could be Std but that the back end(s) MUST be Enterprise. The question has arisen because adding a second Ex 2003 Std backend is not available via OWA whereas the first Ex 2003 Std backend is. Can anyone explain how this can possibly be working? The closest I can find to documentation on this is a MS Whitepaper which says only that the frontend /can/ be Std.
You can run either. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818476/en-us "Note In the front-end and back-end configuration, the back-end server can run either Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition or Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition regardless of which edition of Exchange Server is run on the front-end server." Your issues actually sounds like a problem with host headers. "Lee Meyrick" wrote in message news:A366CA9C-9DB8-415F-A615-529BF4B77E99@microsoft.com... > It is my understanding that Exchange Server 2003 Standard cannot be a > backend > server, however site we have inherited has a frontend server running Ex > 2003 > Std and a backend server running Ex 2003 Std and the mailboxes are > available. > > I thought that the frontend could be Std but that the back end(s) MUST be > Enterprise. The question has arisen because adding a second Ex 2003 Std > backend is not available via OWA whereas the first Ex 2003 Std backend is. > > Can anyone explain how this can possibly be working? The closest I can > find > to documentation on this is a MS Whitepaper which says only that the > frontend > /can/ be Std.
