[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] Migration Step Sixteen: Setting up the domain name - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Sun, Nov 8 2009 22:27 bradley

Migration Step Sixteen: Setting up the domain name

Configure the Internet address and leave IPv6 enabled. If you disable it improperly or incorrectly, you will see numerous network issues, including Exchange failing to start. For more information see this blog post on the Microsoft Web site (http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/10/24/issues-after-disabling-ipv6-on-your-nic-on-sbs-2008.aspx ).

Do yourself a favor and plan on using a godaddy cert for the Remote Web Workplace.  Why?  Because then you won't have to worry about getting the cert package on the remote systems, you get rid of the pink SSL warning in IE7 and IE8, your phones will sync easier with the server.

You can buy the cheap godaddy $20 cert as long as you put the autodiscover records up in the DNS.  If your DNS holder can't do that, maybe you need to consider another DNS provider?

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/12/18/autodiscover-and-dns.aspx  Read that post
http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/02/setting-up-an-external-autodiscover-record-for-sbs-2008/ and that one
http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2009/02/installing-godaddy-standard-ssl.html and that one

I'm going to control the DNS myself.

If you want something OTHER than remote.domain.com as your remote access portal, click on Advanced and choose exactly what you want

You then choose whatever you like

You can't use Office Live ...but in my case I won't use that integration.

It is absolutely positively normal that with a REAL proper firewall (in my case www.Calyptix.com ) that it cannot use uPnP to set ports 25, 80, 443 and 987.  You don't need to open up port 80, you can merely open up 443.  Port 25 can also be better protected using mail hygiene providers where you set the Calyptix to only allow port 25 to be accessed by your mail hygiene provider (in my case www.exchangedefender.com who is pulling off and cleaning out all those lovely Facebook phishing scam emails that are overwhelming email boxes everywhere).  This means that I don't get those drive by port scans/password attempts as well.

If you want to host multiple emails on the server follow this blog post:

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/10/13/hosting-multiple-e-mail-domains-on-sbs-2008.aspx

 

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