Reinstalling IIS mashed a few services Andrew McNab 06.07.2007 07:28:01 I've been running SBS for nearly a year and recently uninstalled and reinstalled IIS to try and restore the Default SMTP server in the IIS Snap In. Although it restored the Default SMTP server to IIS, it was temporary. In the process of reinstalling IIS, the following events occured: -Exchange server became unavailable to all machines on the domain. -Windows Server Update Services browser interface doesn't work anymore (cannot find web page) -Connect to the Internet Wizard fails to configure Firewall and Internet Mail I got Exchange back up quickly. Went into services and force started every service with the word "Exchange" in it. Ignorant brute force method. I haven't really done any reading on SBS but I knew enough about the components i needed to setup my domain, POP3 email, website etc. Now that i've buggered it, I'm having trouble getting around things to fix it up. In an effort to read up about SBS through the technical documentation, I swam through and endless sea of security practises for SBS components rather than an explanation of what it is and how it works. What I would like to know is where I can read up about services, dependencies and nick nacks that I need to understand to setup and customise Exchange and SMTP mail server for a domain name pointing to my static IP. How relevent is Active Directory if my forest only has one sever and one domain? I've fiddled around with Group Policies (in particular the default ones) and they don't seem to magically propagate to machines on the domain (i.e. Firewall and Windows Update Settings). Group Policy documentation that isn't 100% about security would be great. Restoring the "link" to WSUS as a result of mashing my IIS installation without backing up the configuration. Any help would be great thanks :o)

Re: Reinstalling IIS mashed a few services "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa[ at ]pacbell.net> 06.07.2007 07:53:18 Run the connect to internet wizard to set up Exchange. What books do you have in your collection? SBS needs AD. And the tight integration with IIS and Exchange... don't just rip out IIS. Andrew McNab wrote: [Quoted Text] > I've been running SBS for nearly a year and recently uninstalled and > reinstalled IIS to try and restore the Default SMTP server in the IIS Snap > In. Although it restored the Default SMTP server to IIS, it was temporary. In > the process of reinstalling IIS, the following events occured: > > -Exchange server became unavailable to all machines on the domain. > -Windows Server Update Services browser interface doesn't work anymore > (cannot find web page) > -Connect to the Internet Wizard fails to configure Firewall and Internet Mail > > I got Exchange back up quickly. Went into services and force started every > service with the word "Exchange" in it. Ignorant brute force method. I > haven't really done any reading on SBS but I knew enough about the components > i needed to setup my domain, POP3 email, website etc. Now that i've buggered > it, I'm having trouble getting around things to fix it up. > > In an effort to read up about SBS through the technical documentation, I > swam through and endless sea of security practises for SBS components rather > than an explanation of what it is and how it works. > > What I would like to know is where I can read up about services, > dependencies and nick nacks that I need to understand to setup and customise > Exchange and SMTP mail server for a domain name pointing to my static IP. > > How relevent is Active Directory if my forest only has one sever and one > domain? > > I've fiddled around with Group Policies (in particular the default ones) and > they don't seem to magically propagate to machines on the domain (i.e. > Firewall and Windows Update Settings). Group Policy documentation that isn't > 100% about security would be great. > > Restoring the "link" to WSUS as a result of mashing my IIS installation > without backing up the configuration. > > Any help would be great thanks :o)

Re: Reinstalling IIS mashed a few services Andrew McNab 06.07.2007 08:12:00 [Quoted Text] > Run the connect to internet wizard to set up Exchange. What books do > you have in your collection? Exchange is working fine again. It's the WSUS browser interface that isn't working and the default SMTP virtual server isn't in the IIS snap-in again. I'm running Service Pack 2 and i've tried registering the smtp snap-in using "regsvr32" and although it says it registered the two dlls specified in a guide I read, it isn't in the IIS snap-in. I grabbed the most relevent book I could buy from uni called "Learning Windows Server 2003 2nd Edition" by O'Reilly. Turned out to be useless in terms of following examples as SBS is a watered down version of Server 2003. A lot of the options and snap-ins either don't exist in SBS or are accessed a different way. > SBS needs AD. Is AD configuration required to setup an SMTP server? > And the tight integration with IIS and Exchange... don't just rip out IIS. Learned that the hard way. I always do =/

Re: Reinstalling IIS mashed a few services "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not[ at ]your.nellie> 07.07.2007 02:14:33 the SMTP virtual server gets moved from IIS to Exchange's control when Exchange is installed. It is where it is supposed to be. "Andrew McNab" <AndrewMcNab[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:01DEBAF4-3A88-4EAD-BA9B-03EFF20A927B[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >> Run the connect to internet wizard to set up Exchange. What books do >> you have in your collection? > > Exchange is working fine again. It's the WSUS browser interface that isn't > working and the default SMTP virtual server isn't in the IIS snap-in > again. > I'm running Service Pack 2 and i've tried registering the smtp snap-in > using > "regsvr32" and although it says it registered the two dlls specified in a > guide I read, it isn't in the IIS snap-in. > > I grabbed the most relevent book I could buy from uni called "Learning > Windows Server 2003 2nd Edition" by O'Reilly. Turned out to be useless in > terms of following examples as SBS is a watered down version of Server > 2003. > A lot of the options and snap-ins either don't exist in SBS or are > accessed a > different way. > >> SBS needs AD. > Is AD configuration required to setup an SMTP server? > >> And the tight integration with IIS and Exchange... don't just rip out >> IIS. > Learned that the hard way. I always do =/