Win 2K8 SBS set up

[dpsguard]

Hi All,

I am new to servers and am a network engineer. I need to move one of our small office, running 8 peer to peer PCs to a domain and we decided to buy SBS.

I have few questions and will greatly appreciate if I can be provided guidance.

1. Existing users have email from external hosted email provider in the form of a.bcd@mail.com, where a is first initial and bcd is last name. Presently we plan to use SBS exchange to be able to download these emails via POP3 from mail provider and then distribute to domain users. Emails will be sent directly from exchange server to other smtp servers. Looks like there is no problem and SBS comes with a POP connector to achieve the same.

2. Will SBS 2008 allow creating domain user accounts of the same format as existing emails for domain users? I recall reading somewhere that wizard has only a few formats and that including dot in the username is not supported directly. Please advise as to how to get around that.

3. What will be easiest way to backup the existing emails on the outlook ( all PCs are XP SP2 with office professional) and then import them back into the exchange outlook client after joining the standalone PCs to the domain?

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[dpsguard]

Hello Folks,

On the add users wizard in the SBS 2008 console, when we add first / last name, it automatically populates the format for username with few options available via pull down menu and none of them have a dot in between first initial and last name.

However, email address field seems to be editable so that I can change it to the required format. In this case, username can be abcd, while email can be a.bcd@domain.local.

My issue is that outside mail provider has set up emails as a.bcd@20Characterlongdomain.com and I can not set up more than 15 character long domain name on inside. I had read somewhere that I can map external email domain address to internal email domain address. If that is the case, what will be the email address shown for the user on the outlook?

Also, when we set up users, there is an option to specify user role. If I set up standard user, there seems to a further option to allow this standard user to be local administrator also for the specified PC. I believe that will be required when I am migrating a couple of users from peer to peer model to domain model and those users have some applications installed locally that may require admin privileges and when I join them to domain, standard user settings may not let them user those applications.

Please help.

Thanks again

 

[dpsguard]

Hello All,

Could you please advise me on my requirements? I do need to set up server in next few days and want to make sure I know what I am doing.

Much appreciate.

 

[biglebowski]

Use the wizard or google setting up sbs 2008. The internal domain is normally different to the external one, ours is office.local

The internet wizard will ask you for your main/email domain name and setup exchange for you.

We also have users that are Abcd where a is the first initial of first name and bcd is the surname but the email is a.bcd@domain.com.

Again use the wizards they are quite good in sbs 2008.