Server Backup E-mail Task and Domain Issues

[PliotronX]

Hey so I've got a fairly tricky scenario, wondering if anyone knows how to run a scheduled task (sends e-mail upon successful backup) as a domain user from a workgroup Hyper-V host. When I attempt to add the domain credentials, it says the user is invalid. I am scheduling from an RSAT because the host is Hyper-V Server 2008, sans GUI. The reason it needs to be run as a domain user is because I am thinking the local Exchange server needs to send the mail as the domain user. Can I set up a virtual SMTP or something and subvert this BS?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Why not just bind your hyper-v host to the domain?

 

[PliotronX]

Why not just bind your hyper-v host to the domain?

I'm not sure why my jokester coworkers don't like to have hosts in the domain. For the few times that they do, they also go against best practice by having the only domain controller virtualized so we have gotten into multiple situations where the VM fails to start and we can't log onto the host because everybody magically forgot the local admin passwords or what we have on file is expired. Gooooood times I tell you. I'll look into joining it and not telling anybody LOL.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Otherwise, you can stand up an SMTP server that forwards to your corporate email. You'd probably have to whitelist some stuff, possibly get some other department to create MX records and whatnot. But we have a private email/listserver running postfix that can be used for smtp forwarding, so I know it's at least possible.