Re: Outlook installed on Exchange server ... What to do now???

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:49:22 -0700

Upgrade your Version of Veritas backup Exec - version 8.6
has SMTP sending abilities which do not need this
configured - There are very valid reasons as to why
Outlook should not ever be installed on Mail servers
(mind you i wont install it on ANY server myself)

>-----Original Message-----
>gjb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While scanning this NG I noticed a couple of posts
regarding the
>> above and checked the relevant MS articles which say
NOT to install
>> Outlook on Exchange servers.
>> I already have Outlook 200 installed on all my
Exchange servers. This
>> was done to enable Veritas backup exec to send mail
notifivation etc
>> via MAPI. This now looks to be unnecessary as well as
undesirable.
>> Question is .. what should I do now. Will uninstalling
Outlook make
>> things better or worse? As things seem to working
should I just leave
>> well alone?
>
>Don't know if this is a minority view or not,but if it's
working now, I
>wouldn't mess with it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gerry
>
>
>.
>

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