TABLE 1: Support of Optional Exchange Components on Clusters
Component Status
Message Transfer Agent (MTA) The MTA can be active in only one virtual server within the cluster.
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) NNTP isn't supported largely because of the problems associated with reconfiguring news feeds after a cluster transition.
Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) connector One instance can be active in a cluster. The dependency is on the post office name, which you must manually reconfigure after a failover.
IM Not supported (available in Exchange 2000 only).
Site Replication Services (SRS) Not supported.
Lotus cc:Mail connector One instance can be active in a cluster. The dependency is on the post office name, which you must manually reconfigure after a failover.
Lotus Notes connector Not supported.
Novell GroupWise connector Not supported.
IBM Professional Office System
(PROFS) connector
Not supported.
IBM SNADS connector Not supported.
Active Directory Connector (ADC) Not supported.
Key Management Service (KMS) Not supported (available in Exchange 2000 only).
Chat Service Not supported (available in Exchange 2000 only).
Exchange Conferencing Server Not supported (available in Exchange 2000 only).