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• 11-14-2009, 5:28 AM

  phelaja Joined on 11-14-2009, 5:11 AM Posts 2

  IIS7 and SMTP Reply Contact Hi When adding the SMTP feature to my Windows 2008 server - I have noticed that the following services were ALSO loaded, W3SVC and IISADMIN, opening up a listener on port 80.  I can disable the W3SVC and still use the SMTP service.  However, I'm concerned that by disabling w3svc that I may be doing somthing wrong.  Are the W3SVC and IISADMIN services actually required? can I or should I diable both services? thanks Peter

• 11-14-2009, 5:56 AM

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  lextm Joined on 10-22-2008, 12:18 AM Shanghai, PRC Posts 1,412

  Re: IIS7 and SMTP Reply Contact You can disable W3SVC. But I am not sure if SMTP depends on IISADMIN. You can check Services panel. I guess SMTP relies on this to access metabase. As SMTP is no longer an IIS 7 component, this forum will not be the best resources for such questions. Exchange forums should be better, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/exchangeserver/ Lex Li Support Engineer at Microsoft --------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

• 11-14-2009, 3:06 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 4:54 PM MI Posts 3,957	Re: IIS7 and SMTP Reply Contact SMTP Service depends on IISAdmin service as it runs inside the process.  As far as W3SVC, you can disable.   There are some legacy components needed, metabase, IIS Manager 6 etc.. Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 11-16-2009, 5:12 AM

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  phelaja Joined on 11-14-2009, 5:11 AM Posts 2	Re: IIS7 and SMTP Reply Contact Many thanks for your help - much appreciated.  P