Re: Add add'l Exchange server
From: Brian Edwards (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/11/04
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:43:15 -0700
I agree, but sometimes it's pretty hard to make the big
bossman understand those things. We're all magicians,
right?!
>-----Original Message-----
>Tell your boss to become an MCSE as in the end, the only
wayI can see to
>achieve this fully is if he administers it himself.
Sorry. I have a boss
>similar and he was ticked off when he found out that "if
I wanted to", I
>could find a way to access his mailbox. Well, yeah,
what do you want us to
>say. We are the admins. If he wants to do it himself
and look after his
>own Exchange Server in another domain, that is about the
only way I can see
>it being exactly what he wants. The only other way is
to strip your access
>from the domain level and he knows the high level
accounts. Either way, not
>good. I could be wrong here but this is how I see it.
>
>
>"Brian Edwards" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:1ae7e01c44f38$13ef0190$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Have searched both the Exch 2000 and Exch 2003
newsgroups
>> for hours and haven't found all of the info I need.
Here
>> is what I need to accomplish:
>>
>> The owner of our company wants to have his own Exchange
>> server for two main reasons:
>> 1 - he does not want anyone besides himself and his
wife
>> to have access to their emails (they use the same
account)
>> 2 - he wants he and his wife to be able to share
Calendar
>> and Contacts on separate computers
>>
>> They connect from outside our network. We do have a
VPN
>> set up that they could use. Right now they use
>> POP/SMTP. Would using IMAP allow for desired result #2
>> above?
>>
>> I don't think there is a solution for #1 because there
>> will always be two people (Sys Admin and me, Network
>> Admin) who will have Enterprise Admin access through
>> Active Directory. We could change the permissions on
>> their mailbox either through AD or through Exchange
>> System Manager if we really wanted to (which, for
obvious
>> reasons, we don't).
>>
>> So, I guess my general question[s] are:
>> 1 - is there a way to accomplish what the owner wants
>> without having to add another Exchange server to our
>> domain, or to a new domain we create just for him?
>> 2 - if adding a new Exchange server and setting the
>> permissions on that server so that only he has access,
>> would I have to create a separate domain for them or
>> could it be accomplished by adding the server to our
>> current domain?
>>
>> Oh man, I know that's asking a lot but I'm really stuck
>> in a hard place here. The owner has put me on the spot
>> because I obviously do not want to answer "No, it can't
>> be done." My answer was "I'm sure there's a way to
>> accomplish that, I just don't know how right offhand."
>> Surely someone out there has run into this exact same
>> problem before.
>>
>> Thank you tremendously in advance for any
>> assistance/advice you can offer. I'll name my
firstborn
>> after you :-D
>>
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