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Thanx for all the hints. Trying them soon and let you know.<br />
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Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. You have made my life easy.<br />
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Thank you again.
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Thanx for all the hints. Trying them soon and let you know.

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. You have made my life easy.

Thank you again.

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the testexchangeconnectivity.c<wbr />om is a great tool. &nbsp;Another tool I use frequently is at <a href="http://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx" rel="ugc">http://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx</a>&nbsp; just put the ip in and it will tell you if your exchange serve is working.<br />

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the testexchangeconnectivity.com is a great tool.  Another tool I use frequently is at http://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx [http://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx]  just put the ip in and it will tell you if your exchange serve is working.


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Right now the email is hosted at the hosting company and we use the built-in pop connector on the SBS to retrieve the email. I have made the appropiate changes to the server (hope I did it right) to host the email in house, opened the ports on the router but before I request the MX record pointer to be changed. I wanted to know if there is a way to test the modifications that I made to make sure that everything is working properly. <br />
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I really don't want to change the MX record and find out that I have to spend days troubleshooting since my experience with Exchange is limited. <br />
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Your help is appreciated.<br />
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Paul<br />

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Right now the email is hosted at the hosting company and we use the built-in pop connector on the SBS to retrieve the email. I have made the appropiate changes to the server (hope I did it right) to host the email in house, opened the ports on the router but before I request the MX record pointer to be changed. I wanted to know if there is a way to test the modifications that I made to make sure that everything is working properly. 

I really don't want to change the MX record and find out that I have to spend days troubleshooting since my experience with Exchange is limited. 

Your help is appreciated.

Paul


Hosting Email in House

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.