[guppy413]

Can it be done? The only caution I saw in the upgrade guide was to avoid having Outlook and BES on the same box. It's just a test machine so performance is not an issue.

TIA

[bertiebassett]

theres a BB KB Article (search on this forum) that suggests its possible for upto 15 users. If it truly is a test box then it should be ok, althought I'd always recommend dropping BES onto a separate box for any kind of production evironment...

[CanuckBB]

It's not advised. Exchange does not like to have a MAPI client installed on the same server.

[guppy413]

Thanks! It is definitely a test server, both for Exchange and BES. I will try to find that KB article.

[voiceBerry]

Originally Posted by guppy413

Thanks! It is definitely a test server, both for Exchange and BES. I will try to find that KB article.

I have not seen any issue with this case.

I have a Exchange server 2003 and Bes server 4.1.0 installed within one box.

It works fine.

[Logvin]

Yup, I've seen it done to with no issues. As someone mentioned before, Exchange doesnt like MAPI being installed on the Exchange server, but you said its a test box... go ahead and play

[BBAdmin]

Unsupported, problematic for some and fine for others - I wouldn't, even in a test environment because if you're testing something you surely want to know the affects, performance, etc of the solution in a real life environment (in which instance I'm sure you wouldn't run Exchange and BES on the same machine).

Why not VMWare it instead??

[guppy413]

Thanks BBAdmin. I don't have a VMWare environment any more for the test--it all had to go to production (non-BES stuff).

The old test environment was set up as a separate BES and Exchange server but it was also in an Exchange org and sub-network very distant from our real one, we are using this environment to answer some of the final questions that we couldn't get from the separate org.

[autsoldnow]

Uhm. Why does BES work on SBS then, or is that the exception to the rule?

Andrew

[Logvin]

We never said that it didnt work... we just dont recommend it.