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Hi Guys, Initially when I decided to move my exchange services to cloud, I thought it was going to be totally free. I purchased a new domain and registered it wit Live@edu and applied for the early upgrade to office365 (the upgrade will take about a week). I have been told by Microsoft to carry on with the implementation of Live@edu. Now, in order to use OLsync I need to install Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and this comes at a cost + CALs. Did every one had to pay for this or is there a way around it. Will we need FIM 2010 for the office365? Help please! Thanks in advance

Thanks for all the help guys, It looks like, it is something to do with the ISP's LAN. I can't get to the correct people to solve this problem out and I am stuck with the single point of contact. I ended up getting rid off the Exchange 2010 (My ISP will be the next). I am thinking of trying Live@edu. Thanks again.

Thanks for all the help guys, It looks like, it is something to do with the ISP's LAN. I can't get to the correct people to solve this problem out and I am stuck with the single point of contact. I ended up getting rid off the Exchange 2010 (My ISP will be the next). I am thinking of trying Live@edu. Thanks again.

Hi dgardner. SMTP Connectors created one is default, which accepts all IP ranges, the other one particularly accepts ISP's mail server IP ranges.

Thanks for all the replies. Pantscat, I just checked, the external domain name wasn't included but *.domain suffix was included in accepted domains. But I still included the full name as you advised me to. I can't test it yet because I need to use the IP address of the Exch 2003 that means people can't use the email. I'll test it tonight and I'll do the telnet test. I'll let you know how I got on. On the "Specify the FQDN this connector will provide in response to HELO or EHLO:" Do we need the enter the local name of the exch box or the external name of it? Thanks again.

Yes they do. It is the address that the old exchange uses. When I do the test on exch 2010, I borrow that IP address from the old exchange. on the mx record I change the priorty to be 0 for exch 2010.

Thanks for the reply Glennda. "Anonymous users" option is allready selected. Thanks

Hi guys I just completed the transition from Exchange 2003 to 2010 early last year. Exchange 2003 is still running as the legacy exchange server and the school is still using it as the only exchange server because we can't get the exchange 2010 to receive external mails. 2003 box is working perfectly normal. Only way we can test if the 2010 receiving, we assign the Exchange 2003's external facing IP address to exchange 2010. This IP address is recognised in ISP provider's LAN as the external relay IP address for the Exchange server. 2010 can send and receive internally and can send to external recipients but can't receive from external. Does my ISP Provider need to make further changes in their DNS (i.e. creating a new MX Record)? Do they have the internal name of my exchange server on their DNS records? Because the local name of the new exchange box is obviously different to the 2003 box. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks