Hey there I would like to set up exchange server to that employees can access their mail anywhere, but have no idea where to start. Right now we have the standard MS Outlook-type setup. The pop3 and smtp servers are both www.thecompany.com (the remote web server, in some datacenter in usa), which handles everything. The main company (internal) server runs SBS 2003. How much trouble would it be to get exchange working, either as itself, or with the current mail/web server? Thanks.

Hi, If you have SBS then you are already close! If you are currently using POP3 email from a hosting company, then you have a couple of choices. Either get them to point the MX records for your domain to your Public IP address and get Exchange to accept mail using SMTP (that is the preferred choice especially if the host can act as a secondary MX record incase your connection goes down) or; use the Pop3 Connector in SBS to download the mail to your Exchange server that way. If I remember correctly you would re-run the Internet Setup wizard which will then get to the email pages. Here you can setup what you want Exchange to do and how you want it to get mail. (it is here you can choose about POP3 or SMTP.) The article here gives some useful info http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Installing-and-Configuring-SBS2003.html If you have more specific questions or want any clarification, feel free to post back Cheers Nathan