I will be setting up a Domino/Lotus system for a Client soon. They currently use Windows 2003 SBS with Exchange.
The plan is to install Domino Server on the same box. Part of the Domino application(s) will require the ability to send mail from Domino through database agents. No other Domino mail functionality will be required.
I suspect that this will cause a conflict problem between Exchange and the Domino mail server.
Could someone please verify if this is possible or not? Or please point me to a resource to research this.
Thank you.
Subject: SMTP listener
Never done that, but I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t. What you do need to do is NOT enable SMTP when you do the Domino server installation. If you allow Domino to run its SMTP listener, then there could be conflict over port 25 (which Exchange undoubtedly is using). Domino can still send SMTP outbound even without the SMTP listener running so you can just handle your agent send mail as regular mail sending to the internet addresses the client uses.
Another question is whether your application is browser-based and accessed via HTTP and is there any other webserver on the box (IIS running? OWA?)
The final caveat, of course, is whether the hardware has sufficient horsepower to handle Exchange, Domino with whatever application you’ve built on it, and whatever else that server is being asked to do.
Ultimately, there’s no substitute for testing your proposed configuration.
Subject: Domino on SBS
Hi
I’ve had some experience in implemeting this solution for a customer, basically to save them licensing costs for the OS. After the initial install and configuration, everthing seemed to be fine, however soon after we experienced really poor performance issues that caused Notes client to be disconnected at random. We never got to the bottom of it.
The Windows server was also reporting errors (dont have them to hand)…
Personaly I wouldnt recomend it unless it is now a supported configuration, but if thats your solution, I hope you have better luck than we had.
Alan