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Thanks for the tips guys, I have already made progress but more by luck than anything else. I have now established that I can send email externally from within school (in my case using [email protected]) with every success, but I cannot then receive email from outside back to this address. I think this is where County come in(our provider)! The sender to our addresses receives an error message back in the form of: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host smtp.nsix.org.uk [194.**.**.***]: 550 5.7.1 (i've purposely masked some of the IP) It then goes on to say contact County if we deem this to be incorrect. I presume this is probably a security measure put in place by County. I would guess the final step to complete this process would be for County to probably open the correct ports? Finally, does anyone know of any good filtering software I can put on my exchange server, ideally not mega-expensive - perhaps a free trial of something?? Thanks again

Please could someone point me in the right direction? I have just set up exchange 2003 on a windows server 2003 machine. This is not one of my DC's. I have set up clients successfully - sharing calenders, global address lists, send/recv internal email etc....BUT, I would like to use exchange to host my external email. At school we have a domain (aylshamhigh.com) registered with Zen and I am aware that there are mx records (but know nothing more here) and that they can be changed. My understanding is that I need to change the MX record with Zen - but do not know what to, and also what changes do i need to make on my exchange server and where exactly - exchange systems manager, IIS, etc??? Finally if it helps, I do have a reverse proxy set up on the server for the purposes of ePortal (web based software) which I think is what I need for this issue? Any clues/suggestions will be much appreciated.

I personally have been using Facility for approx two and a half years spread between working at schools and working for Serco - training, support and implementation. I do agree that getting out some data isn't always straight forward but i've found that with time this becomes far less painful. I don't claim to know everything but am always happy to help other users where I can. Feel free to quiz me and I'll try my best to help!

CMIS is the old name of the software but is still used for the FE versions. It should now be referred to as Facility Admin, Facility Scheduler, Facility ePortal etc. PS A bloody good system, blows all the others out of the water by far!

To meet those sort of requirements you really need to use a VLE, there is no way of doing this through eportal.

Hi James here from Aylsham High I believe that since your posting you have already made the move but if I can help in any way please feel free to contact me. [email protected] Facility Manager

As a previous Serco employee and currently a Facility manager at a school, I would be happy to provide any logistical/technical advice on the changeover/running of Facility. Feel free to contact me on [email protected]

Let me know which one you are after; I have all the latest ones as pdf's. mail me on [email protected]