Installing GFI MailEssentials on the Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 machine

This is the recommended mode if you have Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007.

System requirements

•	Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise (x32 or x64 Edition) or Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server (Service Pack 1 or higher)

•	Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000 (SP1)

NOTE 1: GFI MailEssentials also supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (SP1)

NOTE 2: When using Small Business Server, ensure you have installed Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2000 and Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2003.

NOTE 3: To install GFI MailEssentials on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 you also need to install the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1.

NOTE 4: When installing GFI MailEssentials on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 machine, only the 64-bit production version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is supported.

•	Microsoft .Net framework 2.0

•	If you are going to use the GFI MailEssentials reporter, Microsoft XML core services is required. This is included in the GFI MailEssentials installation and will be installed automatically if your operating system is UK/US English.

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For list server only: The list server feature requires the installation of Microsoft Message Queuing Services. This is a scalable event processing system service developed by Microsoft. It is included with every Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 version, although not always installed by default. For more information on how to install it, please see the chapter ‘Configuring the list server’. If you do not plan to use the list server feature, you do not need to install Microsoft MSMQ.

IMPORTANT: Disable anti-virus software from scanning the GFI MailEssentials, Microsoft IIS, and Microsoft Exchange Server directories. Anti-virus products are known to both interfere with normal operation as well as slow down any software that requires file access. In fact, Microsoft does not recommend running file based anti-virus software on the Microsoft Exchange Server. For more information read the following article: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001824

 

IMPORTANT: Make sure that backup software is not backing up any of the GFI MailEssentials directories at any point.

 

NOTE: If you have a cluster please read the following Knowledge Base article prior to installing GFI MailEssentials: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001639

GFI MailEssentials will need to start and stop the Microsoft Exchange Server services during installation.

Running GFI MailEssentials setup

1. On the Microsoft Exchange Server machine, log-on as administrator and run the GFI MailEssentials setup file.

NOTE 1: If installing on Microsoft IIS SMTP (x86), Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, then you need to run the x86 version of GFI MailEssentials 12: mailessentials12.exe

NOTE 2: If installing on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, then you need to run the x64 version of GFI MailEssentials 12: mailessentials12_x64.exe

2. A welcome dialog will appear. Close all the other running Windows programs and click Next to continue.

3. GFI MailEssentials will prompt you to check for a later GFI MailEssentials version. Always use the latest version.

4. Read and confirm the License agreement and then click Next.

5. Setup will now ask you where you want GFI MailEssentials to be installed. GFI MailEssentials will need approximately 70 MB of free hard disk space. In addition to this, you must reserve approximately 200 MB for temporary files.

6. Now enter your name, company, and license key. If you are evaluating the product, leave the default ‘Evaluation’. Click Next.

7. Setup will ask you for the administrator email. GFI MailEssentials will use the administrator email to send critical notifications.

8. If you are installing GFI MailEssentials on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 configured as a front-end server, or on a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Server Role machine (i.e. in a DMZ in front of another Microsoft Exchange Server), you can choose whether you want to install GFI MailEssentials in Active Directory mode or in SMTP mode. Active Directory mode allows you to select users present in Active Directory for user-based configuration/rules, such as a disclaimer. However, on a front-end server not all users are available. In this case, it is better to select SMTP mode, which allows you to input the SMTP email address for user based configuration/rules.

 

Screenshot 5 - Selecting SMTP mode or Active Directory mode

9. If you do not have Microsoft Message Queuing Services (MSMQ) installed, setup will ask you whether you wish to install it. The list server feature requires this service. Microsoft Message Queuing Service is a scalable event processing system service developed by Microsoft. It is included with every Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 and XP version, although not always installed by default. If you do not plan to use the list server feature, or if you wish to install it later, you can click No to continue set-up. If you click Yes, you will be prompted for the Microsoft Windows CD and setup will launch the MSMQ set-up.

Screenshot 6 - Installing Microsoft Message Queuing Service

10. Setup will now confirm the inbound email domains (e.g. mycompany.com) that you have set up in the IIS/Exchange configuration. It is important to ensure that your inbound email domains are listed correctly.

IMPORTANT: GFI MailEssentials ONLY filters emails destined to your inbound email domain. Therefore, if you do not configure your inbound email domains correctly, no spam will be detected.

NOTE: If you are installing GFI MailEssentials on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 machine, the inbound email domains step of the installation wizard is skipped since these are determined from the GFI MailEssentials Post-Installation wizard that is launched when you finish this installation wizard.

You can change these inbound email domains at a later stage from the GFI MailEssentials configuration.

Screenshot 7 - Configure your inbound email domain

11. Setup will now copy all the program files to the selected destination and finish the installation by creating a GFI MailEssentials program group. Click Finish to finish setup. After setup has copied all the files, it will ask if it can restart the SMTP service.

NOTE 1: If you are installing GFI MailEssentials on x64 machine, the files will be installed under the c:\program files (x86)\ folder.

NOTE 2: If you are installing on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 machine, you will not be prompted to restart the SMTP service.

12. After the installation, setup will check if you have the Microsoft XML engine installed. If you do not, and you are running a US/UK version of Microsoft Windows it will install it for you. If you are NOT running a UK/US version of Microsoft Windows, setup will prompt you to download and install the appropriate Microsoft XML engine. The XML engine is used by the reporter application and is only 2 megabytes. It is most likely to be used by other applications too. For more information read this Knowledge Base article:

http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001584.

NOTE: If you are installing on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 machine, the installation will launch the GFI MailEssentials Post-Installation Wizard. Refer to the “GFI MailEssentials Post-Installation Wizard” section further on in this chapter for information on how to use this wizard.