Re: Switch from POP email to SBS/Exchange

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You need to contact whoever hosts your DNS records-it may or may not be your
ISP.

"Johnny" <jstraumann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply! So I need to call the ISP who currently hosts the
email? Will they know what I am talking about? :)

WRT your Dynamic IP note, I have a dynamic IP to my router at home, so I
could use a DDNS service to forward email the same way I forward my web
address?
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John.

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"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The good thing is that they merely disabled Exchange services, and did
not try to uninstall Exchange. If you re-enable the specific Exchange
services required, then yes you need to (1) setup your MX and A records
to point to your public IP for your SBS server, (2) rerun CEICW, and (3)
make sure users have Exchange mail accounts.

If you don't have a static IP coming to your server, I use TZO myself.

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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Johnny" <jstraumann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all:

Further to the "real sbs install post", it turns out that the situation
is such that they have SBS setup, but they have disabled Exchange and
essentially they are using SBS as a file server. Right now they are
using POP for their email, and now they want to start using Exchange. So
I had a few minutes to browse around the server, and it seems like all
the Exchange services have been installed but are disabled. I imagine
enabling the services would be the first step, but the big question I
have is how to then get the email addresses going to the SBS server
instead of the pop server? The SBS server is behind a router.

Is this where I have to contact whomever is hosting the email and ask
them to point the MX records at the SBS machine? Since it's behind a
router I imagine the router will need a static IP address, the MX record
will point at that, and then the router will forward port 25 traffic to
the SBS machine?

I guess I also have to ensure all the current users on the SBS machine
have an Exchange mailbox?

Can you offer any advice as to a plan he/she would follow in this
situation?
--
John.

http://mscrmguy.blogspot.com/






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