Re: Advice needed - running Exchange

It should work fine. The CEICW wizard is a big help. There is also some
great resources at smallbizserver.net on how to do this. Here's what I did:

Internal NIC: 192.168.16.2
External NIC: 192.168.1.10
Router: 192.168.1.1
On the router I forwarded port 25 to my server (192.168.1.10). [There are
also other ports you'll want; do a search on this NG for threads that
discuss it.]

On the external NIC > Properties, set the SUbnet Mask and Default Gateway
(should be your router IP), and your Preferred DNS server (I have mine set
to the Internal NIC IP). Click on the Advanced tab and then WINS and disable
NetBIOS.
On the internal NIC, leave the default gateway BLANK!!

On my router, I have a dynamic IP with the ISP. It's a very simple router,
but the setup screens made it easy for this "not-quite-a-bona-fide-techie".
I seem to remember setting the ISP's DNS server's in the setup, and the IP
of the router, and it reached out and made the connection for me. Then
CEICW in SBS did the rest.
As a lesson learned, you might want to use a DNS server that is NOT at the
ISP. I ahd some DNS problems and it turned out it was the DNS servers at
the ISP. Now I set 1 IP to the ISP and the other to 4.2.2.1 (a commonly
used DNS server 'out there').

As always, keep asking questions. The people on this NG are really good
about helping those of us who are still learning or are stumped. Lastly,
I'm certainly no expert, so it would be nice to get the opinion's of others
on this issue. Good luck!

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:99E3F515-FB56-421E-BE29-95C6EB0E0667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mike,
Thanks so much, still encouraged. I'm not exactly sure where to go next.
I need to figure out how to get this setup and working. I believe I have
exchange mailboxes for all my users, but I don't know exactly how to make
the
connection with the ISP. Do I just open port 25 on my firewall and point
it
to my SBS server?

I found docs on MS Exchange Server web site about migrating from other
flavors of Exchange or other mail programs, but not how to make the proper
connection via our ISP.

My network is behind a Linksys Firewall, and my SBS Server has 192.168 IP
address, will this cause problems?

Thanks for your help!

Mike

"Mike Webb" wrote:

100 GB is more than enough. We've been on Exchange about a year and are
only up to 4.7 GB - and our staff saves EVERYTHING. Granted, we only
have 6
people, but that'd still only be about 30 GB for your 35 people. For
long
term storage/growth, 100 GB is probably good.

As for POP, I kept it for a bit as a backup. Once we felt confortable, I
cut
it off. One thing I did, on the recommendation from others on this NG,
was
get a mail backup. I use dyndns.org. Great company. The only thing
I've
got at the ISP is our website.

Let me know if you ahve other questions.
Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is encouraging so far. I am running SBS 2003 Premium, and I set
aside a
100G partition for Exchange, do you think that will be good enough?
Also,
do
you use the POP3 Connector to you ISP?

Thanks,

Mike


"Mike Webb" wrote:

I agree. I also work for a small nonprofit. We run SBS 2003 Premium
and
I
mad ehte switch to do our own email. Very little extra work. SBS
makes
it
easy. I'd recommend doing it.

Mike Webb

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I work for a small non-profit and we run SBS 2003 which has Exchange
2003
installed. We currently are not using Exchange, our e-mail is
hosted
by
our
ISP. My boss wants to have outlook 2003 shared calendaring
functionality,
and I told him that was only available if we run Exchange. He's
concerned
about us hosting our own e-mail. I'm the only IT guy (35 employees
in
the
organization) and he is worried about how much time it would take to
administer Exchange.

What would you suggest? I guess there are some 3rd party tools for
sharing
Outlook calendars, but I see additional benefits with Exchange (OWA,
etc).
I
also posted this on the Exchange Server newsgroup too, but figured
this
might
be the better place.

Thanks,

Mike









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