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.
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.