Setting up Exchange 2007 - Newbie!

[Izi]

Hi Tech People,

I dont have any experiance with Exchange, but am wanting to set it up for our internal emails after being showed what it can do.

I am not too technical, but have set up Windows domains, DNS, IIS/SQL before so not complete novice.

How hard is the set up of Exchange? Can anyone give me any pointers, or show me any good tutorials?

I am about to install Windows 2008 on to a new server I have just built, then I will start to instal Exchange, but was hoping for a little advice first.

Many thanks.

 

[Izi]

Thanks for the replies guys.

The reason I want to use 2008 and exchange 2007 is because I have legit copies of them through work!

I want to set up for our office email to be used through Exchange, sending internal and external emails. As far as DNS and MX is concernce, all our DNS and MX records are hosted on a third party server controlled from one place. Why would I have to set up MX records on the actual server?

The reason I would like to use Exchange is for the roaming email feature which is great, sharing of contacts and meetings etc. I also want to learn about Exchange, as its one area I havent touched on and it gets great reviews.

We also want to use the push feature for our mobile phones.

Best,
W