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Bertrand SCHITS
Asked: 2012-09-09 05:27:18 +0800 CST

SBS2008 : can't have a mailbox accessible from outside?

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We have a SBS2008 server with 9 users using the embeeded Exchange. The MX record points to this server. This works fine.

We want 2 remote users to also have a mailbox on this server. The consultant say we can't because SBS don't allow to have remote users for Exchange. He may be right but seems very strange to me. I don't find anything related to that.

I don't want to touch this server for political reasons. So I can't do any test.

Can anyone confirm if Exchange on SBS2008 can or can't be reached from outside ?

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  1. Best Answer

    Exchange on SBS 2008 allows remote access to mailboxes using OWA (Outlook Web Access).

    If you port-foward 25/80/443 on your firewall to internal LAN IP of your SBS server, then you can access your OWA URL from this link

    https://mail.domain.com/owa (replace mail.domain.com with your external FQDN)

    You can test this internally by going to https://192.168.1.10/owa where 192.168.1.10 is the internal LAN IP of exchange server

    There are additional steps to configure OWA. You can see a good guide here: http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2009/05/sbs-2008-setup-checklist-v111.html

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