Configure your server wizard windows 2003

If you are unclear about server roles, you can click the link provided to the Configure Your Server wizard help file on server roles. Click Next to begin. The next screen, Preliminary Steps, provides a list of steps you should take before continuing the server configuration. This includes having your Windows Server CD or network share available.

When you're ready to proceed, click Next. The next screen in the wizard shows what server roles are already configured on the server. If a server role is not listed, you can add it via the Add or Remove Programs link.

Figure 2. You can remove roles from a server via this wizard by selecting a configure server role and clicking Next. You can set up this server to perform one or more specific roles. If you want to add more than one role to this server you can run this wizard again. You can also make policy changes that affect the handling of SMB file and print traffic.

For example, if your server has enough excess capacity, you can require signing for all SMB traffic to prevent man-in-the-middle type attacks on your clients. The same goes for signing all LDAP traffic. In the policy, you can indicate that all clients that connect run a version of at least SP3 for Windows to help protect LDAP information on your network.

All in all, the Security Configuration Wizard is extremely thorough and will take a huge amount of time to get "just right," but has the potential to be a huge boon for your security efforts.

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Editor's Picks. A common mistake is to think that the POP3 server receives the emails. But that is not true, all the POP3 is doing is 'pop' the emails out to the clients. First of all, Authentication and Relay is not the same thing.

We use the Authentication button to specify which authentications methods are allowed for users and other SMTP servers. So enabling Anonymous here is not a security issue, in fact, it's required if we want our server to be able to receive emails from other servers on Internet I doubt you want to tell all administrators of email servers on Internet how they should logon to yours.

We also need Windows Authentication so the email clients can authenticate to the server and be able to relay send emails. As Relay Restrictions we selected Only the list below because we do not want to be used by spammers to send emails. But we never specified any computers. That is valid, because we wants our clients to always use the username and password to authenticate, no matter where they are. If you want users to only be allowed to relay if they are on a private network, then you can uncheck Windows Authentication as allowed authentication method, and specify the IP range for your network in the Relay Restrictions window.

Is that all? Do we have a working email server now? Well, the answer is yes. But we still haven't configured the email clients. Are we finished now? Well, let us try to send an email. Didn't work, did it? I'm sure you got an error message similar to this one:. The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was 'webmaster ilopia. Subject 'Test', Account: 'ilopia. The reason why we got this is written in the error message.

This means that we didn't get authenticated to the SMTP server. So, let us take a look at the email client's settings again. And hopefully you will receive an email within some minutes if you sent it to your own email account. This will, as stated before, send the user name and password from the client encrypted, instead of clear text. If you need more help, or are curious about things, take a look at the help files in Windows Server They are excellent and you will find out that there are more features that I have not talked about.

I have configured the email server and I can send emails without problems. But all emails the server receives ends up in the Drop folder and are not moved to the proper mailbox.

What is wrong? This can happen if you have moved the mail root recently and forgot to cycle the server. No, the built-in email server does not support IMAP. If you want or need IMAP support you'll have to look at Exchange , Exchange running on a Windows Server machine in a Windows Server domain, or use a third party email server.

I want the users to be able to read and write email from Internet.