Re: Setting up exchange server
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:25:46 -0500
In news:F12A6680-AF82-45F5-9740-E8672F115B5B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Stuart Keen <StuartKeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Thanks Colin. I thought getting in someone would 'get it done right'.
It would, if the people you got in there knew what they were doing. Anyone
can call him/herself a consultant, remember. Did you get references?
Basically, my main priorities were to have safe data (be able to back
it up) and to remote access the files. For the later, they wanted to
sell me Symantec PC Anywhere whereas I though SBS2003R2 was quite
able to do this itself if the Clients run XPPro as opposed to XPHome.
Yes, you're right.
Regarding the data backup, the server came with Symantec Backup Exec
10d Small Business Server Protection Suite. They told me to check
the day after their visit that that the backup was either 'complete'
or 'complete with errors'. When I checked, it said 'Failed'; not an
option I was expecting..... and one which they explained to be due to
the software not being able to address open files and that they would
have to take the software off.
There are other issues relating to reasons why they couldn't set up
SMTP without ReverseDNS on my broadband line. Setting up new POP3
addresses without setting up diversions from domain hosts.
They're high.
The final straw was when they said the whole thing was due to them
having to set up a server not supplied by them and that they could
not control what was supplied. I agree in principle with this, but
if the server was so wrong, I would have thought experience would
have told them to do a clean install.
I am somewhat jaundiced by my whole experience which bears no
relation to the experience I was expecting after reading the
Microsoft website. Computers are not my business; they are just a
tool to achieve the ends, but one which is so essential and if not
working correctly not only an inconvience but an expensive liability.
I am in the UK, but I have spent so much of my own time on this, I am
cutting my losses now before I waste more time and money. Do you know
whether there is a protocol for selling computers (standards for
wiping data or the OS licence)?
"Colin" wrote:
Hi Stuart,
Sounds like you have been ripped off by 'experts/consultants' who
don't really know what they are doing. Personally, I'd recommend you
stick with your SBS setup but get it done right. Are you in the UK ?
Regards Colin.
"Stuart Keen" wrote:
Hi. If it helps, I have tried to do the same thing. The server I
have runs SBS2003R2 and the client PC's both run XP Pro. The best
advice I can give is (if you have only a working knowledge of
computers) is not to: Stick with what works! The Dell server I
bought was delivered with a damaged CoA and Dell were far from
helpful.
I tried to set it up myself because I was told by many people that
SBS2003R2 is easy. The system ran irratically and in the end I
called in some specialist IT consultants. They sent 2 technicians
for a day and even now the VPN does not work, sometimes a Z:\ drive
is shown and the Back-up software does not work. Also, all the
Client PC's have new desktops. I was passed from pillar to post
with software blaming hardware and vice-versa.
This forum is great, but there is only so many times you can ask
and I found some of the replies meant little to me.
So if you have to go to a server, get someone it to do everthing.
My experiences are such that I am selling the Server and going back
to what I know - all in a waste of about £1,200.
Good luck.
"Jean Ewing" wrote:
We are planning to move from an ad-hoc network to a SBS managed
network in my office. In preperation, I changed my ISP (Zen - UK)
which gives me a range of 8 IP addresses, registered a domain name
(ewingandco.co.uk) and ordered an eval copy of SBS 2003 while
waiting Dell to deliver our server.
The final setup will be as follows:
ISP <--> ROUTER (Netgear DG834) <--> (ext. nic) SBS (int. nic)
<--> Switch <--> 2 XP Pro clients
I am able to make changes to DNS records for the domain I
registered and I can ask my ISP to setup any records required.
Could you give me an idiots' guide what changes I need to make to
use Exchange for sending and receiving emails? Many thanks
.
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