Re: Thanks to all - today's the day!!!
- From: "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:28:24 -0400
Hi Mike:
Your too anxious. Relax.
See a couple comments below.
Oh, and relax!
Larry
"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Folks,
It's 3:30am where I live, I woke up a couple of hours ago and couldn't
fall
back asleep. I think the reason is because today is the day, as at the end
of
the business day, I will finally migrate our organization to using
Exchange,
and I'm looking forward to it, but still nervous. I want the transition
to
be a successful one.
I also wanted to thank each of you who has read and responded to my
questions over the past few months as I have been in the planning stages.
I
hope to soon be able to answer more questions than I ask. :)
OK, once again, here's my setup. Non-profit agency, 35 users (6 remote).
My SBS 2003 server has 1 NIC, and we have a linksys firewall. I have
Symantec Mail Security 6.0 for Exchange installed and run Backup Exec and
have the Exchange agent built in to their SBS product. All clients will
have
Outlook 2003. I have 105Gb on the server for all of the Exchange related
activities.
Are you sure the exchange data bases are located on the partition you
reference? You can seel the location, and move them if necessary in
Exchange System Manager (esm). Really, its that easy.
When I get to work this morning, I will run the CEICW wizard and get
everything set up for that, then around 4pm I will contact our ISP and
give
them the go ahead to create the MX and DNS records to point mail to my
firewall, which will forward to the SBS server. They have told me to
expect
24-36 hours for that to fully propagate. I plan to then go home, and come
back in Sunday afternoon to start setting up the Outlook exchange accounts
on
local users. That will give me Sunday and Monday to get things working
before users are back on Tuesday morning. The ISP also suggested to leave
the
POP3 accounts active for all users for a week or so until we are sure
things
are working well.
I know you want the timing of this to seem seamless, but I might run the
CEICW asap. There is a chance that it could give you problems, and you
don't want to be in the office all night with the limited support that will
be available on a holiday weekend trying to fix it. Nothing is lost by
running it; you could have, and probably should have run it when the server
was first installed. Particulary if you have ISA.
OK, questions. 1) My plan is on Sunday go around to all my local users
desktops and create the Exchange account, and point Outlook to use the
Exchange mailbox for delivery instead of the .pst file. Then, open their
.pst file and copy inbox/contacts/calendar to their exchange profile. My
understanding is to copy these items, not import. Is this simply a matter
of
drag/drop from one profile to the next?
Yes. If the uses are set to pop at time intervals I might turn that off
just to reduce the amout of chatter on the network. They can try it
manually a few times until nothing shows up for a few days. In addition, it
will save you another trip around to all the workstations.
2) I don't typicall delete user accounts in ADUC, but instead disable
them.
We have a couple of former employees who just left our company in the last
couple of weeks, and currently I have our ISP forwarding their mail to
another mailbox. If they have a disabled account in ADUC, can I still
forward e-mail delivered to that address to another mailbox? If so, how?
One way would be to open the properties for the user in ADUC, select the
email address tab, munge the address, uncheck the little box about apply
defaults. For example if you wanted mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx to instead go to
sally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, change the mike to mike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, uncheck the
box. Then add mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the email address properties page.
Then you have to choose the default reply address.
Another way is to give sally permission to use mikes inbox. You can give
send on behalf or send as permissions. If you want more info on this
option, post back.
Another way is to forward the mail, in exchange general tab, delivery
options. You can also choose if to send the message to one or both.
3) Remote users. I have 6 remote users, who do not authenticate against
any domain, including ours. As has been shared with me, I have the
instructions for setting up "Outlook over the internet" from RWW, and hope
that is the proper way to set them up. My plan is to call them
individually
Tuesday morning, and walk them through the account creation and setup over
the phone. I don't have anything like webex or gotomypc, is this the best
option I have for setting up the remote users?
Don't know anything about the skill level of these folks, but I think I
would send them the document and let them try it, or ask questions as their
comfort level demands. Anything you can do to reduce your stress seems like
a good idea to me.
While this works well, you could also have them use OWA, or connect to your
TS if you have one. I would discourage allowing them to pop from your
server. Just another service you don't need to have on your server.
However, if any of the remotes only have dial up, you may not have a choice.
4) Personally, I have a notebook and desktop PC for work, I should be
able
to setup Outlook on both machines and have them work fine with Exchange,
shouldn't I? My notebook is brand new, and has office 2007, and my
desktop
is office 2003, will that cause a problem?
Nope
I'm sure I will have a couple more questions as the morning goes by, but
that's all I can think of now, until I have had some coffee.
Thanks again everyone for their help!
Relax! <g>
Mike
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