Re: Thanks to all - today's the day!!!

Steve,

Yes, that is a bit of a muddy statement, isn't it. I have 6 users PC's
which are not part of the domain, i.e. they log in locally. The users
themselves have domain accounts, so when they connect via RWW, OWA or
RCP-HTTP, they must authenticate with credentials. It's just that when they
are at their remote office, logging in locally to their desktops/laptops,
they are not a part of the corporate domain.

Thanks for noticing that!

Mike


"Steve" wrote:

Mike you've gotten great responses from Russ and Larry. I have a question
about one of your statements that needs to be clarified. You said "Remote
users. I have 6 remote users, who do not authenticate against any domain,
including ours."
When you access an SBS remotely whether by RWW, OWA, or RPC-HTTP you must
authenticate and it requires a CAL. Are your 6 remote users setup to
actually do that authentication?

Steve

"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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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!

Mike







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