Exchange 2000 Won’t Run On Windows Server 2003

Just two days before that operating system is to be released, partners are complaining about incompatibilities between Windows Server 2003 and existing Microsoft server applications installed at many customer sites.

For instance, neither Exchange 2000 nor Internet Information Services 5.0 will run on Windows Server 2003. SQL Server 2000 will run on Windows Server 2003 only with Service Pack 3 deployed, partners sources say.

Only Exchange 2003 will run on Windows Server 2003, which is due to launch Thursday after years of delays.

“Exchange 2000 Server is supported to run in a Window Server 2003 environment, where it can take advantage of the new features of Active Directory service and global catalog of Windows Server 2003,” according to Microsoft’s Web site.

However, “you cannot install and run Exchange 2000 Server on a Windows Server 2003-based computer,” continues the information found at www.microsoft.com. “The next version of Exchange, code-named Titanium, can be installed and run on both Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server.”

During the last upgrade cycle, customers had the option of running Exchange 2000 on either NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 Server. More than 50 percent of Windows server installments are based on NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5.

Source : ieXbeta