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Step 3: Configure slave servers
Important notes
1. To configure a server as a slave server, it must meet one of the following system specifications:
Microsoft
®
Windows Server 2008
Microsoft
®
Windows Server 2003 - It is recommend that you download the BITS 2.0 client update
from:
http://go.gfi.com/?pageid=ME_BITS2003Update
2. Slave servers automatically upload an archive file, containing settings to the IIS virtual directory on
the master server, so no virtual directory should be created on slave servers.
Slave server configuration
1. From the slave server, go to <GFI MailEssentials installation path>\GFI\MailEssentials\AntiSpam\
and open mesentcfg.msc.
2. Right click Anti-Spam Synchronization Agent > Configuration node and select Properties.
Screenshot 142: Configuring a slave server
3. From the Slave tab, select This GFI MailEssentials server is a slave server.
4. In the URL field, specify the full URL to the virtual directory hosted on the master server in the
following format:
http://<master server domain name>/MESynchAgent