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The Exchange Server 2003 installation defaults to having Exchange Server 2003 running in mixed mode. Because this chapter deals with purely Exchange Server 2003 environments, you will likely want to switch over to native mode. Native mode offers many features that mixed mode does not.
We discuss mixed mode in more detail in Chapter 3, which deals with installing Exchange Server 2003 in a preexisting Exchange environment. The advantages of running your Exchange Server 2003 environment in native mode include the following:
Exchange organizations can only be switched from mixed mode to native mode. They cannot be switched from native mode to mixed mode. To perform the switch, from the Exchange System Manager, right-click the organization, click Properties, and select Change Mode under Change Operation Mode. You then need to restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Service on all Exchange Server 2003 systems within the domain to have all available benefits of the shift to native mode. As with other Windows services, this service can be restarted via the Services console (services.msc). |
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