Hi,

 

I have just installed SBS 2003 for the first time, and have run into a couple of issues.

 

The customer using SBS 03 has an old server running Windows Server 2003 and running on there is their old mail server. Some users are still connecting to this server for their email, and some users are now connecting to Exchange on the new SBS server.

 

The problem is, the users who are connecting to different mail servers are not able to send messages to each other. Is there an easy way around this? All users will eventually connect to Exchange, but it will take some time for me to reconfigure everyone.

 

My second problem is with Outlook Web Access. I want to set up a rule so that mail is forwarded to a different web address, but when I create the rule to do this, it doesn't work, mail is not forwarded.

Nick,

 

Are both email servers authoritive for the same domain? It sounds like this and if it is that will never work. That forwarding rule is a client based rule and that won't work with OWA. You either need to create a forwarding rule in Exchange for that mailbox or use Outlook and make that rule. If Outlook does not mark it as a client side rule that tule will also run if Outlook is not running. Can you give that a try?

Well, you cannot have two email servers handle one domain as you do now. In the users properties in the ADUC you can set a forwarding address for a user. A detailed description of this procedure van be found here (subscribers):

 

Forward email to an external mailbox:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Articles/tabid/266/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/135/Forward-email-to-an-external-mailbox.aspx

 

Automatically forward messages to another e-mail account - Outlook - Microsoft Office Online:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011502011033.aspx

Thanks for your help. I have now set up exchange server to forward mail for me.

 

Thanks