I work as a paralegal in a small law firm (4 people) and I also moonlight as the IT person in the office. I'm not a network professional by any stretch of the imagination but before I began working as a paralegal, network administration was the path I was walking.
I learned enough to understand the basics of a file/fax/application/backup/print servers and got those setup here in our small office. I also had a bit of training with active directory but again, I wouldn't exactly call that training extensive, nor do we have an active directory here at the office. We operate as a simple workgroup.
In our office, we all use yahoo/gmail for our emailing needs and while it suits us just fine, it does look rather unprofessional to put on a business card or give out to other attorneys/law professionals. I would like to setup a mail server so that we can have centralized archiving and a professional looking email address.
We have a server running windows server 2003 / SBS 2003 and a static external ip address from our ISP.
I've done a bit of searching around and I would prefer not to pay some hosting site an absurd amount of money per address. What would be the best way for me to go about setting up a mail server for our small business? Should we host it on site since we have a static ip? We have plenty of space on the server, 3TB free to be exact. We also have plenty of bandwidth to spare.
Would it be easier to rent space from a hosting service and run the server from there? How would that work?
I would have no problem doing my research and setting up an exchange server if yall feel that would be the best way to go. Its not like we need the server up and running this week. I guess what I really need is a place to start.
Thank for any help yall can provide =D
I learned enough to understand the basics of a file/fax/application/backup/print servers and got those setup here in our small office. I also had a bit of training with active directory but again, I wouldn't exactly call that training extensive, nor do we have an active directory here at the office. We operate as a simple workgroup.
In our office, we all use yahoo/gmail for our emailing needs and while it suits us just fine, it does look rather unprofessional to put on a business card or give out to other attorneys/law professionals. I would like to setup a mail server so that we can have centralized archiving and a professional looking email address.
We have a server running windows server 2003 / SBS 2003 and a static external ip address from our ISP.
I've done a bit of searching around and I would prefer not to pay some hosting site an absurd amount of money per address. What would be the best way for me to go about setting up a mail server for our small business? Should we host it on site since we have a static ip? We have plenty of space on the server, 3TB free to be exact. We also have plenty of bandwidth to spare.
Would it be easier to rent space from a hosting service and run the server from there? How would that work?
I would have no problem doing my research and setting up an exchange server if yall feel that would be the best way to go. Its not like we need the server up and running this week. I guess what I really need is a place to start.
Thank for any help yall can provide =D