If what you have works, and the users like it, why change? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:00 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 Pro compatibility)
Martin - Thanks for the note. I was playing around with installing it on a separate system and see how it would respond, but thought I would ask a few questions first. One last question if I may. If this does not work, what do you recommend for a workgroup of our size? I greatly appreciate your help! Martin Blackstone wrote: > I don't know if it will run on W2K. > That is a really old product. MS doesn't support it anymore either. > I'm sure it is fine for 12 people. I have run it with 60 on a PC (with > a SCSI drive). My advise would be to either not mess with it at all, > or put it on a separate box. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:38 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 Pro > compatibility) > > Martin - > > Thanks for the response. You are probably right and we probably are > using Microsoft Mail. I'm afraid that I am ignorant enough to not > know the difference. I was under the impression that this was some > sort of version of Exchange 5.0, but I may be wrong. > > Any idea if this will transfer to Windows 2000 pro? If not, what do > you recommend that I look at for upgrading the system? We could all > go to external e-mail accounts, but I would prefer to keep our > inter-office mail internal if there is a simple way to do it. > > Again, thanks for your help. > > Martin Blackstone wrote: > > > Are you sure you are not using Microsoft Mail? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:10 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 Pro > > compatibility) > > > > I am fairly new to the world of Exchange and my business is simply > > using the version of Exchange that was buried on the Win98se disk. > > We > > > are really complicated here: We set up a Post Office on the server > > and we all send messages to each other and transfer files via > > attachment. It is simple, but for the 12 or so folks that we have > > here, it works great. > > > > The problem is that we are looking to upgrade our server and are > > going > > > to go with Windows 2000 Pro for the operating system. My question > > is > > this: > > > > Can you simply install the Exchange 5.0 that came on the Win98se > > disks > > > onto a Windows 2000 Pro platform and use our post office as we have > > in > > > the past, or are we going to have to purchase a different version of > > Exchange Server? > > > > Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
