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However, if you tell Internet Explorer to continue, it will work fine.. Filling in user information for a new user with mailbox... For a web-based e-mail system, you’ll find that it’s ve

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You can use https://localhost/owa/ for testing, but Internet Explorer will likely complain that the certificate for localhost does not match the machine name However,

if you tell Internet Explorer to continue, it will work fine

Figure 18-15 shows the login screen for the test user’s mailbox Complete the login fields as appropriate, and then click Log On to, well, log on

You are next prompted to select your language and time zone Choose the appropriate selections for your location (the defaults should be correct), and then click OK to complete the logon process

Figure 18-13. Filling in user information for a new user with mailbox

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You are now in OWA, as shown in Figure 18-16 For a web-based e-mail system,

you’ll find that it’s very complete, and mimics regular Office Outlook to a large degree

Spend some time exploring OWA Although local users will typically use Microsoft

Office Outlook to work with the Exchange Server, you’ll find that OWA is an excellent

remote-access solution to allow users to access e-mail, calendar information, and

contacts stored on Exchange Server

Figure 18-14. Specifying mailbox settings

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Chapter Summary

In this chapter, you installed Exchange Server 2010 onto a Windows Server 2008 server with Active Directory You also created a user account with an attached mailbox, and successfully accessed it using OWA This demonstration showed that installing and using Exchange Server is not terribly difficult However, if you will be working with a

Figure 18-15. Logging on to Outlook Web Access

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production system, you will definitely need much more information One place to start

is Microsoft’s documentation, which you can find at http://technet.microsoft.com/

exchange/

While there are many applications and services available for Windows Server

2008, the services described in the next chapter are mainstays that are used in virtually

every network In Chapter 19 you learn about DHCP, DNS, remote access, Internet

Information Services, and Windows Terminal Services, all of which are a part of

Windows Server 2008

Figure 18-16. You’re in! Outlook Web Access

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