need help with exchange server 2003

[SelArom]

hello all, my school has an msdn subscription so I'm able to access the library. As such I'm wanting to take a turn learning exchange server, but I'm not really sure if it's something I would benefit learning (I'm mostly a developer, not much into collabortion stuff, still I would like to at least try it out)...

I don't really know what it's all about, but I'm wanting to create something like this: I want to have exchange server check my POP3 email from my website domain (SelArom.com) so that it is stored on the exchange server. then I want to be able to connect to it using outlook on my desktop and laptop so that I always have access to my email. I would also like to sync my contacts and calendar so wherever I am I know what I need to do... is this at all what exchange server is designed to do?

any information you can give me would be really helpful. if you have time to talk about it i'd like to hear your own description of what exchange server is all about rather than just linking me to the microsoft site. it's not that I don't want to read about it, it's just that I've been to the site and it's mostly all about why I should upgrade to server 2003 over 5.5, not a high-level overview...

thanks so much for your time!

-SelArom

 

[Runes911]

Originally posted by: SelArom
hello all, my school has an msdn subscription so I'm able to access the library. As such I'm wanting to take a turn learning exchange server, but I'm not really sure if it's something I would benefit learning (I'm mostly a developer, not much into collabortion stuff, still I would like to at least try it out)...

I don't really know what it's all about, but I'm wanting to create something like this: I want to have exchange server check my POP3 email from my website domain (SelArom.com) so that it is stored on the exchange server. then I want to be able to connect to it using outlook on my desktop and laptop so that I always have access to my email. I would also like to sync my contacts and calendar so wherever I am I know what I need to do... is this at all what exchange server is designed to do?

any information you can give me would be really helpful. if you have time to talk about it i'd like to hear your own description of what exchange server is all about rather than just linking me to the microsoft site. it's not that I don't want to read about it, it's just that I've been to the site and it's mostly all about why I should upgrade to server 2003 over 5.5, not a high-level overview...

thanks so much for your time!

-SelArom

It never hurts to expand your knowledge of something. You never know when it may come in handy.

...I want to have exchange server check my POP3 email from my website domain (SelArom.com) so that it is stored on the exchange server. then I want to be able to connect to it using outlook on my desktop and laptop so that I always have access to my email. I would also like to sync my contacts and calendar so wherever I am I know what I need to do... is this at all what exchange server is designed to do?

Yes it can do all of that. In fact, if you have a PDA/laptop that supports Wifi or bluetooth (with a phone and internet access) you can sync with exchange anywhere. However, I may be incorrect on this, I believe that exchange requires a domain to function.

EDIT Yep I am correct: "...you need Active Directory in order to install Exchange but it
doesn't need to be on a domain controller. It is preferred for it to be on a
member server machine not the domain controllers."

 

[SelArom]

thanks for the info, and guess what I totally got it working!! I got my pop3 mail coming in and it goes straight to the exchange mailbox so I can access it on my pc, laptop and pda!! WOOHOO!!!!

i have another question tho, how to I enable access to my server here at home from over the internet? I was thinking that I have to buy a domain that is the same as my domain on the windows server 2003 machine is that right? how do I get it to point to that machine? is there anyway to do a dynalias kind of thing instead? any ideas on that? oh man this is FUN!

-SelArom

 

[SelArom]

well i managed to get the outlook web access but I can't connect to my mailbox. I have my login and password but it won't let me log in unless I log in as administrator.

I can log in using outlook on both my laptop and desktop using the login and password for that mailbox, but when I try outlook web access it will not let me connect... any ideas?

-SelArom

 

[Nocturnal]

In order to connect to your box from outside, I'm pretty sure you'll need a static IP.

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
In order to connect to your box from outside, I'm pretty sure you'll need a static IP.

actually i did manage to connect using a dynalias account, and also by typing in my dynamic IP. I can log into my administrator's inbox if I input the admin login and pass of the machine, but I can't get into my user email box. I get this error:

You could not be logged on to Outlook Web Access. Make sure your domain\user name and password are correct, and then try again.

any ideas?

-SelArom

 

[stash]

Did you create a mailbox for your user account? The administrator account is the only one that gets a mailbox by default when Exchange is installed.

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: stash
Did you create a mailbox for your user account? The administrator account is the only one that gets a mailbox by default when Exchange is installed.

Yep I sure did, I can log into the mailbox using outlook on both my laptop and desktop... it just won't let me in through OWA no matter what. I've tried resetting the password too, that didn't work 🙁

-SelArom