Setting up Gmail accounts for pupils

[Kawlindakew]

Can anyone help or advise on the following setup issue.

 

Currently we have all our staff emails running through exchange and the pupils don't have an email address.

 

We would like set up Gmail accounts for the students so they are totally seperate from the Teachers.

 

We have verified our domain with Google but now have to setup Gmail MX records for our domain, will we be able to have MX records for or exchange server and also Gmail running along side each other?

 

Just a little worried that we could break the MX records for Exchange.

 

Thank you in Advance

[FN-GM]

You will probably have to have the email delivered to your exchange and then forwarded onto gmail. You would setup send connectors in Exchange. You will also need to send messages out via exchange so your SPF records are correct.

 

An easier option would be to have a Hybrid setup with Office 365. Stick your kicks on Office 365. The system will know where the mailbox is and deliver the message.

Edited September 5, 2014 by FN-GM

[pcstru]

We would like set up Gmail accounts for the students so they are totally seperate from the Teachers.

Separate as in teachers will be [email protected], students will be x@different_domain.com? Of will teachers and students be on the same domain?

[Ausy]

You can't point mx records to gmail if its the same domain, it will break exchange. Set up a subdomain for students.

[hawc]

You could have teachers.school.lea.uk and then students.school.lea.uk