Re: Thanks to all - today's the day!!!
- From: "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:41:36 -0400
Hi Mike:
Sounds like you are well on your way.
For the remote users, send them that document, or some abbreviated version
that you create or something that you think their skill level can handle.
The syntax of the remote connection for RWW has to be tied to something that
will resolve. Could be "mail.yourdomain.com" or "rww.yourdomain.com" (or
org or net or whatever). But there must be a DNS record at the ISP that
will tie this together. If you use the IP, you force people to remember it,
and one of the driving concepts of the inet is that names are easier to
use/remember than numbers.
Regarding your drive partitions, I would not replace the server because of
this. You have many options to use some of that 100 GB free space in
another partition. OTOH, if the server is showing its age, then it should
not matter. Just be sure to use an "exchange aware" backup solution, and I
cannot imagine that there are any modern ones that are not.
These drive a at least RAID1, are they not?
The internet email system is "store and forward" which means that a
compliant email server will hold any mail that has a valid mx record for a
few days while trying to connect and deliver. If your exchange server is
offline for a few hours, even a couple of days, you should not lose any
mail. However, as in New Orleans, servers can be off line for longer
periods. You can ask your isp, or contract with others, to be a "backup"
mail box for your domain, and when you come back on line they just do a dump
to your server.
For that reason, I like to be sure that all is will with my server and my
workstations before I re connect the server to the internet after an
extended outage. Even will reconnect but turn off the exchange services
until I am sure the server and workstations are "happy".
Larry
"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Larry,
Thanks so much, yes I am too anxious, I woke up at 2am, and couldn't stop
thinking about this weekend, I so want things to go as smoothly as
possible!
I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee right now, and I expect I will crash when I
get
home tonight.
Anyway, the Exchange databases and transactions logs are pointed to my
105Gb
partition (E:). I know it's not good practice to have them on the same
set
of disks, but this was the config of the box when it was created, and I
didn't have a chance to change it. I hope to replace this box early next
year, and will plan the storage accordingly. I only have 8Gb free on my
OS
partition, so I'm trying to be extremely careful of that.
I ran the CEICW this morning when I got here, and it seemed to go fine. I
do not have ISA installed. The CEICW seemed to auto configure the linksys
firewall I have fine, and all else seems to be running fine right now, no
errors in the event logs after completing the CEICW. Russ pointed out
that
he didn't like the Web Cert to have the External IP as it's "name", and
that
is what it created, so I'm not sure if I should run it again and create a
new
one or not.
You mention sending remote users a document detailing the steps to set up
their exchange accounts via RCP-HTTP. Would that be the document found in
RWW "setting up Outlook over the internet"?
Thanks, I really appreciate the help!
Mike
"Larry Struckmeyer" wrote:
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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