Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P63: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. | 621 Before You Begin Before you perform the procedure in this topic be aware that the procedure contains information about editing the registry. Caution Incorrectly editing the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Problems resulting from editing the registry incorrectly may not be able to be resolved. Before editing the registry back up any valuable data. Procedure To enable an SMTP virtual server to accept message extended properties sent anonymously 1. Start Registry Editor. 2. Navigate to HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services SMTPSVC XEXCH50. 3. Right-click XEXCH50 select New and then click Key. 622 4. Type the number of the SMTP virtual server instance as the key value. For example the default SMTP virtual server instance is 1 while the second SMTP virtual server created on a server is 2. 5. Right-click the key you just created point to New and click DWORD Value. 6. In the details pane type Exch50AuthCheckEnabled for the value name. By default the value data is 0 which indicates that the extended message properties are transmitted when mail is sent anonymously. For More Information For information about how to edit the registry see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry http fwlink linkid 3052 kbid 256986 . Consolidating Sites in Exchange 2003 Site consolidation entails moving Microsoft Exchange out of remote sites and into a larger central site and allowing users in remote offices to access their mailboxes and public folders over the network. The main 623 justifications for site consolidation are to make the Exchange Server 2003 topology simpler and to make Exchange more cost-effective to administer. If your organization contains servers running Exchange Server the site consolidation process requires additional tools to ensure that mailboxes distribution lists recipients and public folders are moved properly and with the least disruption
