Exchange Services -- Should they be running?

Question

Running an old SBS 2011 box.

It doesn't serve much purpose other than handling DNS, DHCP, a few network printers and a few shared drives. It DOES NOT host Exchange.

However, in looking at some of the services running this morning -- there are roughly 20+ Microsoft Exchange services "Started".

So a few questions:

Should these services be running or "Started" even though it's not hosting Exchange?

Can they be set to "Disabled" without any ill-effect to other server functions?

TechNet forum original post link:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/154c5064-f09c-44a1-8b49-6411f6402b12/exchange-services-should-they-be-running?forum=smallbusinessserver2011essentials

Answer 1

Hi,

If Exchange Server is not used for your SBS environment, you can safely disable them manually.