Hi, I'm feeling sort of stupid, but I'm having a tough time going through the basic decisions for installing 2006.2.
We're upgrading from 7.15, which means it's been a long time since I've had to install IMail. The challenge here is that we are installing to a new machine (fresh install), with the idea that we'll move the domains and mailboxes over afterwards. So the install process keeps asking me questions, and I'm not sure of the differences from the old versions of IMail, and I can't find any answers in the Getting Started Guide or the Ipswitch website. Here are the questions I couldn't decide on: 1. Installation path. In the old installation, IMail went into a folder D:\IMail (which, may have been an upgrade from 4.x or 3.x) and all of the domains went under that folder. In the new 2006.2 installation, it wants to install in the more normal \program files\Ipswitch\messaging folder. I don't care if the program files go there, but I like the idea of keeping the domains and mailboxes in the \IMail folder. So do I just tell it to install to the default location, figuring that I'll be able to change the domain and mailbox locations later? Or do I tell it to install to \Imail? (Just for reference, this is all on the D: drive.) (For now, I've chosen D:\IMail) 2. User database. In the old 7.15 installation, we had one real domain, based on our NT user accounts, and then we had various virtual domains that used the IMail internal (registry) database. In the new installation, when I chose NT user accounts, it warned me against that (due to performance issues). Instead, it recommend using the Active Directory accounts. So I chose that, but am I correct in assuming that I will still be able to add virtual domains later that use the internal registry database? And what is the real difference (from an IMail administrator's point of view) between using the AD and the NT User accounts? Once I chose the AD user accounts, it gives me a long list of instructions about an account to be configured with the Framework 1.4. Among other things, it wanted me to setup impersonation but was really ambiguous on how to do that. I made my best guess, but more information would have been helpful. 3. Administrator account for web services. It asks for a pre-existing admin account to access administrative web services. I tried one of the AD administrator accounts (which doesn't seem appropriate anyway) and it said the account doesn't exist. I tried a local admin account (this server is a member server and not a controller on the domain) and it said that doesn't exist. In fact, I have yet to find an account that it will accept and this is where I am currently stuck. It would have been nice if there had been some documentation on the setup choices, but, lacking that, I'm hoping someone here can help. Thanks, Ben BC Web
