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Screenshot 24 - Selecting the default anti-spam action to use 
6. In the Default anti-spam action dialog select the default action to 
be taken when emails are detected as spam. Click Next to continue. 
7. Click Finish to finalize the installation. 
The GFI MailEssentials installation is now complete and the anti-spam 
system is up and running. For more information about how to optimize 
GFI MailEssentials refer to Post-install actions chapter. 
3.6 Installing on Microsoft Exchange 2003 cluster 
Introduction 
A cluster is a group of servers, technically known as nodes, working 
collectively  as  a  single  server.  Such  environment  provides  high 
availability and fail over mechanisms to ensure constant availability of 
resources  and  applications  including  email  infrastructures.  If  one  of 
the  nodes  in  the  cluster  fails/is  not  available,  resources  and 
applications switch to another cluster node. 
A Microsoft Exchange cluster can be set up in one of 2 modes: 
active/active  or  active/passive.  GFI  MailEssentials  supports  ONLY 
active/passive  clusters.  In  an  active/passive  cluster,  a  „failover‟ 
mechanism ensures that whenever an active cluster fails, one of the 
available passive nodes becomes active (i.e. takes over the role of the 
failed node). 
In view of the way clusters work, GFI MailEssentials must be installed 
on  all  servers/cluster  nodes  in  order  to  ensure  uninterrupted  email 
spam  management.  GFI  MailEssentials  installation  in  a  Microsoft 
Exchange 2003 cluster is a 4-tier process: 










