Re: Help on Exchange setup and remote work place

George wrote:
Dear All,

I have fairly good idea about computers and network , but i am and not very good at it . Here goes my problem. I have installed Windows 2003 SBS premium edition and i want to configureexchange server which comes with my sbs . We are a company with 10 users and maximum we will be adding 10 more users in 2 yrs time . my server computer has two lan cards . One that connect to the local area network and one which connects to the ADSL modem . The one which connects to lan card has an IP of 192.168.0.20 and the IP of my ADSL modem is assigned by my ISP ( internet service Providers DHCP) . I think this is called dynamic IP.

currently my Companys website is hosted with a different service provider , not the above mentioned ISP . I also have 10 Pop3 mail accounts created through him and currently recives all mails thru him .
Now if i want to use exchange instead of the Website provider should i go for a Static IP .

You don't need it, but it makes life a bit easier. Less to go wrong.

also once i buy a static IP should that IP address be
assigned to my LAn network card or to my ADSL lan card .

Really you should have an ADSL router, which then takes the external IP address and you use another private network address for the router LAN ports and SBS external NIC, but not the same one (192.168.0.) as for the SBS LAN. Using a router has many advantages over a modem, it means the SBS doesn't get involved with any ADSL issues, it will take some of the load off the SBS in terms of firewall duty, and it makes many troubleshooting jobs easier. It is also much better for the SBS external NIC address to be fixed, even if you have a dynamic public IP address.

also is it possible
for me to buy a static IP from a third party other than my ISP ( internet service Provider) and assign it to the ADSL modem .

No, by definition the company that connects you to the Internet is your ISP. You can only have an address from the pool that they have been assigned. Most have both static and dynamic. To be more accurate, if you have a static IP address you still use DHCP to collect it, because you still need DNS and gateway information from the ISP, but it is guaranteed to be the same one always.

Once i get the static IP
should i got to my Web hosting company configuration page and change my emails dns to the new static ip.

Yes. But you should keep collecting POP3 mail, as it may take a few days for that DNS record to become available to everyone. Don't turn it off until mail is arriving by SMTP normally and you have had no mail by POP3 for at least a week.

I have heard that Dynamic IP can also be configured to use with exchange . in that case can i forward all my emails to my isp while sending thru exchange .

You can certainly use all the SBS features with a dynamic IP address, using some form of external dynamic DNS service, but as you are aware, you may not be able to send email directly to many other users. Sending via a smarthost is probably necessary.

if i am sending the mails by forwarding all all my emails to my
webhosting companys smtp , what is the username and password i should give, Is it the main login details to get into the webhosting control panel or the username and password of a pop3 mail box .

That depends on the hosting company. You may be able to use one of the POP3 authentications, or they may allow only mail coming from that user to use that name and password, in which case you need to ask them what to do.

Also if i type
http://myservername/exchange or https://myservername/exchange , i am not able to connect to exchange. but if connect thru RWW and check my mails it opens the microsoft outlook in web version. now i can check my mails . why is http://myservername/exchange not work


Did you ask for OWA when you ran the Internet configuration wizard? You have to ask for both RWW and OWA separately, try running the wizard again and making sure of that. You can do that without affecting anything else which is already correct.
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