Unique Touch Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Hi peeps, I need to reinstall my server at home as I have been playing about with it loads over the course of a year. It's now time to start afresh and set it up with my new found knowledge (login scripts, roaming profiles, home dir, etc) What I would like to know, is if anyone has successfully installed Exhange Server 2k3 at home and got it running ok? Are there any tips/advice you can give me? Is it possilbe for me to run Exhange at home??? Doing a google search didn't being much up. I basically want to setup it up so that all my mail goes to th exchange mailbox and then to my pc when i am log on. Basically how a corporate place works at the moment. Is this possible because at the moment it's all done via POP3/SMTP accounts locally. I hope somebody can help :) Many thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattimeo Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 I have it running at home and if you need any help, feel free to post here, or PM me and I would be more than happy to help. I would recommend Small Business Server 2003 for your edition, it't better then sex....well...almost. Matt Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2221183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unique Touch Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 Mattimeo, I don't have Small Business Server 2003...whats the difference of that and having Windows 2003 Server and Exchange Server 2003? When I install Windows 2003 Server and set the doamin up, do I need to put my name as uniquetouch.local or uniquetouch.co.uk (would this make a difference to exchange). Once that is setup, can I get exhange to grab the emails from my pop3 account and then push it to the outlook mailbox? Is there much I have to configure when setting exchange up? Many thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2222581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattimeo Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Well....you can do either of them really. The recommended way is to create a seperate private domain, and then create and host your public domain on the same server (although there are security risks with this too...). As for the Exchange grabbing your POP3 mail, as far as I know, you will have to get a 3rd party tool in order for that to happen, which they do exist. Small Business Server 2003 does come with this utillity though, but since you don't have that, oh well. And yes...there are many differences between just Server 2003, Exchange 2003 and then the package deal with SBS2k3. Matt Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2222657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 5, 2004 Yes, I have Windows 2003 Server and Exchange Server at home but I run my office on Hotmail. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2222700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unique Touch Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 Mattimeo said: The recommended way is to create a seperate private domain, and then create and host your public domain on the same server (although there are security risks with this too...). My hosting is provided by another company for uniquetouch.co.uk - would this affect exchange? Would I use uniquetouch.local or uniquetouch.co.uk when creating the private domain? I don't want to host my internet domain and wish for it to stay with the current hoster. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2223277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattimeo Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 I would then suggest that you use the .local for your own private domain. Then in exchange, configure the server to accept uniquetouch.co.uk emails, and configure your users for each mailbox addy. Then you need to edit your public DNS zone for uniquetouch.co.uk and create/change the MX record and point it to a host that points to your server at home. That way, your public domain is still hosted somewhere else, but any mail is forwarded to your server in which Exchange will be configured to take care of it. http://www.microsoft.com/technet Great site for more info. Matt Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2225106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unique Touch Posted June 6, 2004 Author Share Posted June 6, 2004 Thanks for the reply Mattimeo...is there a way to do this without changeing the MX record for my domain to point to my home server? I'd prefer not to do anything with my domain email at all if possible. Also, if I use unqiuetouch.local then in active directory won't the user account have firstname.lastname@uniquetouch.local as the default email address? Or is it possible to change it to firstname.lastname@uniquetouch.co.uk? Sorry to ask so many questions, but I want to make sure I know what I am doing and understand why I am doing it. Many thanks again! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2226406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAMeAiM Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Since your local domain is @uniquetouch.local, and you er logging on to that, your email will also be firstname.lastname@uniquetouch.local couse thats the domain you logged on to. I don't know if you can change this but if @uniquetouch.local is the only domain you have on your AD i dont think you can change it to firstname.lastname@uniquetouch.co.uk couse you are not logged into @uniquetouch.co.uk. Well, you can always check in your profil in AD to see if there is @uniquetouch.co.uk as domain (but i doubt). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/174404-exchange-server-2k3-windows-2k3-sever/#findComment-2232592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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