Enable Internet access to Exchange on SBS2003

[ditchmagnet]

Right now the SBS2003 works fine on the LAN for email. It is configured to download email through a POP connection, and the clients then connect to the exchange server. The clients can only check their email locally but want to be able to check it from their home computers or mobile devices.

The server is behind a Comcast business modem/router.

I am thinking that what I have to do is change the way the server receives email by disabling the pop connection, and pointing the mx records to the Comcast assigned IP address.

I am not sure what all I would have to reconfigure though. Is there a guide someone can point me to, or explain the steps I should take, or suggest a better way to do what I way to accomplish?

Web email access is enabled (though it only works locally), so I was also thinking I could connect the other LAN port on the server to the Comcast router and assign the server a static public IP so they could access the web email, though this would no be ideal since it would be a hassle to access on a computer or phone.

Thanks

 

[BadBigBen]

take a look at the following MS article, it will give you a few pointers or at least a place to start:

Use Outlook Anywhere to connect to your Exchange server without VPN

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/o...-exchange-server-without-vpn-HP010102444.aspx

Ben
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[ShackDaddy]

You don't need to disable POP or change your MX record at all. That will only change how the mail gets to your server, and how quickly. What you want to do is this:

1. Make sure there's an A-record in this company's public DNS that points to their Comcast IP. Webmail.domain.com, HQ.domain.com, pudding.domain.com. It doesn't matter what it is.
2. Get a public certificate. You can get a single-name cert from GoDaddy for $39 that will last you three years, if you want to go cheap.
3. Publish port 443 to the server on your firewall.

If you've already run the Connect to the Internet wizard on your SBS box, at this point, you should be able to connect to

https://pudding.domain.com/exchange

and pull up the Outlook Web Access logon screen.

There's lots of other resources online to help you navigate each of the steps that I mentioned above, but that's the basic punchlist for what you are going to need to do.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com