Re: Exchange server New Setup Info
- From: "Jamie A. Byrnes" <jabyrnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:38:26 +0930
Hi Ravi,
Answers inline...
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From: Ravishankar_EN [mailto:ravishankar_en@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 5:42 PM
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Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Exchange server New Setup Info
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Dear friends,
Iam ravi from banagalore. i have some questions on exchange
server.
My Criterias:
1) My company recently took a domain as eselinc.com
2) web space has been provided by one of the US based company to
upload my web home page and the facility of creating a mailboxes,
max of 50.
Queries:
1) My director has asked me to create centralized mailing system
for us. Here answer is Exchange server is a answer. But how do i
take full conrol of my exchange server. The main mail server is is
maintained by Us based company who is just a web space provider
NOT a branch office or related to our office.
A1) Your mail would appear to currently be a POP type setup, similar to
what a home user would use. Separate users download their own mailboxes
from the ISP (assume rediff?). Exchange (and other MXs) are different in
that they themselves host your mailboxes, and CAN transmit mail directly
to other MXs. You can choose to relay exchange mail thru an external
"smarthost" if you don't wish to host your own DNS server.
The major step this will involve is getting assigned a internet address
range to use for your company, and assigning one of those IPs as the MX
record to point to your new exchange server.
2) what is the basic things for the organisations to have before
and after installing and to have exchange server.
A2) see above. If you aren't familiar with this then I strongly suggest
you get some help with the setup, possibly from your ISP.
3) what kind of exchange server i need to have and on what platfor
and version does it suit for us as ours is a streangth of a max of
25-30 employees.
A3) you would be looking at exchange server standard edition. Whether to
choose 2000 or 2003 is dependant on other things like what is your
current setup (ie. AD in use/current server OS, client OS, client office
version, WAN setup, etc.) and your skills on each version. Generally I
would go with 2003 if possible for the increased lifetime of the
product, and avoid the inevitable upgrade later on.
4) Is there any way to check my entire organisations mails through
exchange server? and i do want to keep a copy of the mails in my
local exchange server not on remote mail server, which is provided
by the US based compnay.
Here it means, our employees check their respective mails, they
should get a mails from my exchange server.
A4) with exchange server all is possible :}
5) How do i synchronize the entire organisations mails from remote
mail server?
A5) I think what you're missing is that with exchange you won't need or
want the old remote server. You will probably want to get all of the
mail off the old server first into PSTs, then you can dump that back
into the system when exchange is ready.
6) is there any way to receive all the emails to my exchagne
server instead of from 3rd party remote mail server?
A6) with the MX record mentioned above that's what happens.
While it may be expensive to get an exchange professional in to help set
it up it will more than pay for itself with less frustration,
aggravation and possible security problems. And of course ask every
question you can while they're there. Sure it annoys them, but that's
what they're paid for right?
Jamie.
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