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Exchange2000 and old ISP account

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by ddainesi

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I 've two questions. First: is it possible
install and running Exchange 2000 Server
on a W2K server without ActiveDirectory ?
(this is because a customer of mine have
three server,2 NT & 1 2K, with a precedent
NT domain).
Second: is it possible use Exchange with a
messageboxes on an external provider. In
sample words one of my customer have a
domain (www.domain.it) with a provider and
a connection with these ISP. The server of
the customer call the ISP on demand by
network (LAN) client. So, is it possible
use an account for internal purpose and
use others pre-existing account on
external ISP ? (My customer now use
Outlook express for internet mail and will
use a centralized engine for receive and
send mail message, maybe with a network
antiviruses program)
Thank in advance for your response.

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by soldat

I don't believe it's possible to run Exchange 2000 without Active Directory. Exchange 2000 resolves addresses against the Global catalog that's created when AD is installed. Instead of the usual mailboxes you'd see with exchange 5.5 you end up with mail enabled objects in the active directory.

To access mailboxes in a seperate domain (or forest depending on your ISP's setup) you may need to run a metadirectory service or have your ISP setup a seperate AD domain for your mail clients.

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