SharePoint User Group UK

Dear All,

I have done two installations of SBS 2008 (which includes WSS3). It is time for me to really get me head around WSS3, because I think my clients would all benefit.

When is the next London, Reading, or SouthEast/Midlands event that would be for people who are not complete newbies but aren't (yet) full time SharePoint developers?

And also, since they have managed to make WSS send emails out and inbound on SBS2008 with Exchange 2007 on the same server, can they actually make it work on SBS2003 which has Exchange 2003. Previously it was declared impossible, but maybe a techie had a long hard look at it and got it to work.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

My deployment has SBS2003 with Exchange 2007 and WSS3.0 all on the one box and sends emails fine. No inbound mails for Sharepoint currently set up.

If it was "impossible" I've no idea how they did it as it was implemented before I was drafted here.

Hmm,

SBS 2003 comes with Exchange 2003. For it to have Exchange 2007 and WSS3 on it is, well, extremely unusual. Theoretically possible, but why would you upgrade just the Exchange component to 2007. You would be paying a fortune in licences when SBS 2008 does it "properly" for you.

I got muddled up about the email. Sharepoint 3, I believe, normally only sends email out using a simple SMTP service... which cannot coexist with an Exchange 2003 server. So outbound emails cannot work. This is documented in an MS Whitepaper on how to make WSS3 work on SBS2003.

But somehow on SBS 2008, WSS3 can do emails, whilst Exchange 2007 is present. I thought that whatever trick had been done here might be possible to add back in to the SBS 2003.

Anyway this is very techy for late on a Friday.... have a good weekend.

Alex

 

Ah, I got muddled. Our server has SBS2003 and Exchange 2003, not 2007. We use Office 2007 and I got confused.com :P

Like I said, SP was deployed well before I started so I've no idea how they got it to co-exist with Exchange on the server, but it sends out Alerts and stuff perfectly fine.

And agreed, enough tech. Time for a pint :P

Exchange (any version) can simply act as an SMTP relay, so there is no problem with SharePoint using Exchange to send emails - Thats perfectly normal. No idea who declared it impossible but they want their head examining.

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Paul Leigh
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Software Architect and a QuikR Microlight pilot in my spare time.

SBS 2003 comes with Exchange 2003 and WSS 2.0. One of the reasons that may tempt you to upgrade to WSS 3.0 is the in-coming email feature. But... as mentioned above, this feature does not work on WSS 3.0 when on SBS 2003! This is clearly stated in the MS whitepaper on the subject. Shame! Reason is something along the lines of "WSS expects to have its own smtp service, and not have Exchange installed on the same OS". I've recently been over this ground as I've just done 2 SBS 2003 WSS 2.0 to 3.0 migrations. While researching I did come across an arcticle which shows a potential workaround. I haven't attempted it as it looks a bit heavy http://davidschrag.com/schlog/167/installing-wss-30-on-sbs-2003-standard.

Outgoing email works no problem.

I'm pleased to hear that the in-coming email issue is fixed in SBS 2008.

Mike

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