SBS2008 Fax Services

[wij]

Installed a little SBS2k8 system on an ML115 for a small company a few weeks ago.

All has been going well with it and they'd like to look at using the fax services offered by it.

Is this just a simple case that I need to stuff a good old fashioned 56k fax modem in the back of it and run a couple of wizards to get it to deliver faxes to an exchange mailbox and also print a hardcopy to one of the printers on the network?

Anybody running this able to recommend a particular type of modem or will I be OK salvaging some old bit of crap out the back of a machine I have lying around here and plugging that in.

Or if someone wants to recommend a 3rd party alternative to the built in stuff for this I'm open to suggestions. It is for very light use, a few faxes a day at most and to be honest more for receiving than sending.

 

[malman]

Yes basically you stuff the modem in and run the wizard. If you want to route the faxes to a mailbox/public folder then you will PROBABLY need the hotfix or the fax services dies randomly.

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archiv...08-fax-routing-to-email-issue-0x80040211.aspx

Thing is you want a reliable modem - I generally use muti-techs something like a zdxv 56k - but they are good old serial and the ml115 has no serial ports. I would go external though as you can reset the modem without rebooting the server.

 

[#Chri5#]

Agreed on the modem choice - cheap and nasty no-name PCI 56k modems for under a tenner are indeed nasty when it comes to faxing.

 

[wij]

Thanks chaps, actually have a couple of decent USR 56k modems in a box somewhere but they're serial. Might give a USB to serial adapter a try and see how it works out.