Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P8:Your Exchange Server 2003 deployment plan should reflect your understanding of how Exchange and Microsoft Windows Server™ operating systems interoperate. It should encompass the relationships between Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server sites and domains, domain controllers, global catalog servers, and Exchange 2003 administrative and routing groups. | 71 Partitions containing database files Partitions containing other Exchange files Operating System Requirements Exchange Server 2003 is supported on the following operating systems Windows 2000 SP3 or later B Note Windows 2000 SP3 or later is available for download at http fwlink linkid 18353. Windows 2000 SP3 or later is also a prerequisite for running the Exchange Server 2003 Active Directory Connector. Windows Server 2003 72 Installing and Enabling Internet Information Services on Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Exchange Server 2003 Setup requires that the following components and services be installed and enabled on the server .NET Framework Internet Information Services IIS World Wide Web Publishing Service Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP service Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP service If you are installing Exchange Server 2003 on a server running Windows 2000 Exchange Setup installs and enables the Microsoft .NET Framework and automatically. You must install the World Wide Web Publishing Service the SMTP service and the NNTP service manually before running Exchange Server 2003 Installation Wizard. 73 If you are installing Exchange Server 2003 in a native Windows Server 2003 forest or domain none of these services is enabled by default. You must enable the services manually before running Exchange Server 2003 Installation Wizard. O Important When you install Exchange on a new server only the required services are enabled. For example Post Office Protocol version3 POP3 Internet Message Access Protocol version4 IMAP4 and NNTP services are disabled by default on all of your Exchange Server 2003 servers. You should enable only services that are essential for performing Exchange Server 2003 tasks. For detailed steps about how to install the IIS prerequisites for Exchange Server 2003 on Windows 2000 see How to Install IIS Prerequisites for Exchange Server 2003 on Windows 2000. For detailed steps about how to install the .
