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by sameh fouad

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It's well known that Exchange 2000 server is only installed on a domain model network with active directory installed.
But what if you have a workgroup with 10 machines of windows 98 and 95, and a win2k stand alone server, can I install Exhange server 5.5 on this server and use it for internal mail exchange between users of this workgroup or there must be a domain to accomplish this?

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by sameh fouad

I am not asking about the posibility of installing Exchange 5.5 on a server, I know that it must be installed on a server. I am asking about installing, configuring and running Exchange 5.5 server on a workgroup.
My question is do I have to have a domain to run Exchange server 5.5?

by timwalsh

I don't foresee any difficulties. Any email server designed for to be used on the Internet should also work for your environment. You will need to create user accounts for all users on the server since Exchange 5.5 mailboxes are tied to user accounts.

Unless you've already purchased Exchange, you might want to research other alternatives. Exchange is overkill for a small workgroup environment, especially only for internal email. Admin overhead might be more than you would expect, and Exchange isn't cheap (between server license and client access licenses, you're probably looking at $1,200+).

Check the email server offerings of the below companies:
http://www.icewarp.com/
http://www.sugarsoft.com/
http://www.eudora.com/
http://www.workgroupmail.com/

(Delete any spaces in the above URLs)

Good luck.

by netxt

NO. As Exchange 2000 needs Win2k Active Directory, Exchange 5.5 needs Windows NT4 domain. Having a NT4 domain,you can install on a Win2k member server MS Exchange 5.5

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