How to Reset Bell Modem to Bridge
As I’ve written in a previous blog, ‘Sympatico Ultra Highspeed / Speedstream 6520 Modem Problems‘, Bell provides you with a really crappy router/modem with their Sympatico Ultra Highspeed Edition. I decided
that I didn’t want to use their router so I turned it off and just used my own D-Link router. Here’s are the steps on how I accomplished this:
- Connect the DSL cable (phone cord) to the DSL socket on the back of the Speedstream.
- Connect an ethernet cable to the #1 port on the Speedstream to the WAN port on your router.
- Connect your computer to one of the LAN ports on the Speedstream. The Speedstream should already be set to DHCP mode, but if it is not, you will have to manually change your IP to be on the same network as the modem, otherwise you can skip this step.
Go into your network connections. In Windows XP, go to Start Menu > Connect to > Show all connections.
Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’ and click the Properties button.
Right-click on your Local Area Network connection and select properties. You should get a screen similar to the one below. Enter in what you see below and click OK.
- Open a browser window and type this address in the address/location bar.
192.168.2.1. This is the IP address of the Speedstream modem/router. - If you have set up a username and password, enter it here. If you have not set up a username and password, I believe the default username is admin and the password is blank (as in it is empty, not the word blank).
- Once you are in, you should get a screen similar to the one below. Click on the Advanced Icon at the top.
- Then, click on the Home Network icon on the left. You should get a screen similar to the one below.
- Click on the Advanced Settings button and you should get the screen below.
- Click on the ‘Configure the Local Home Networking modem IP Network’ link. This should take you to another window that looks like the one below.
- Click on ‘Custom Settings’ and you should see the screen below. Copy the settings as you see them and click the Apply button. This will disable the Speedsteam’s DHCP server. DHCP assigns IP addresses to all the computers connected to the network. You want
to disable this so that your router will be the DHCP server.
- If you changed your Windows network settings in step 3, you should change them back to automatically obtain your IP address and DNS server addresses.
- At this point, I will assume that you have the router that you want to use instead of the Speedstream already set up to connect to Sympatico. The router should also be running a DHCP server. You may need to reboot your router. And that should be it.
How to create an Exchange contact to send mail to an external SMTP email address
1.Open the Active Directory Users And Computers management console.
2.Navigate to the organizational unit wherein the new contact should reside.
3.Select the organizational unit.
4.Click the Action menu and select New and then Contact.
5.Provide a name for the contact.
6.Provide a display name for the contact. This name will be used in the Active Directory Global Catalog. Click Next.
7.Enable the Create an Exchange Email Address checkbox on the New Object page.
8.Click Modify.
9.Create the external SMTP email address where messages are to be forwarded to. Click Next.
10.Verify the information displayed on the Summary page.
11.Click Finish.
How to create Exchange contacts
1.Open the Active Directory Users And Computers console.
2.Navigate to the organizational unit wherein the new contact should reside.
3.Select the organizational unit.
4.Click the Action menu and select New and then Contact.
5.Provide the details for the new contact and click Next.
6.On the Email page, provide the alias for the contact.
7.Select the Create an Exchange Email Address checkbox so that an email address is created for the new contact.
8.Click Modify.
9.Select the SMTP Address option.
10.Provide the fully qualified Internet email address that should be used for the new contact.
11.To override the default Internet mail message formats, click the Advanced tab.
12.Click OK.
13.Click Next and then click Finish.
How to add mailbox stores
1.Click Start, All Programs, Microsoft Exchange, and then select Exchange System Manager.
2.Exchange System Manager opens.
3.In the left pane, right-click the storage group container and select New and then Mailbox Store from the shortcut menu.
4.On the General tab, provide the database name, default public store, and the offline address list to use.
5.You can also enable message archiving and specify whether clients support S/MIME signatures and whether plain-text should be displayed in fixed-sized font.
6.On the Database tab, provide the location the database locations.
7.On the Limits tab, specify the message storage limit, the deleted items policy, and the deleted mailbox policy.
8.On the Full-Text Indexing tab, specify the frequency at which the full-text index is updated or rebuilt.
9.On the Details tab, specify which configuration information needs to be manually inputted by administrators.
10.On the Policies tab, specify the system mailbox store policies for the mailbox store.
11.Click OK.
Configuring Exchange Information Stores
How to create storage groups
1.Click Start, All Programs, Microsoft Exchange, and then select Exchange System Manager.
2.Exchange System Manager opens.
3.In the left pane, right-click the Exchange server and select New and then Storage Group from the shortcut menu.
4.In the Properties dialog box which opens, in the Name textbox, provide a name for the new storage group. This is the name that will appear in Exchange System Manager and in the Active Directory Users And Computers management console.
5.In the Transaction log location box, provide the location for storing the transaction logs. Click the Browse button to navigate to the location.
6.In the System path location box, provide the location for storing temporary files. Click the Browse button to navigate to the location.
7.In the Log file prefix box, the specific log file prefix is automatically assigned by the Exchange server.
8.Enable the Zero out deleted database pages checkbox to have all deleted data removed from the drive.
9.The Enable circular logging checkbox should not be enabled.
10.Click OK.
How to change the status of Exchange features for mail-enabled objects.
1.Open the Active Directory Users And Computers console.
2.Proceed to select the user account objects that should be modified.
3.Using the Exchange System Manager menu, click Action and then select Exchange Tasks.
4.The Exchange Task Wizard starts.
5.On the Exchange Task Wizard Welcome page, click Next.
6.Select the Configure Exchange Features option. Click Next.
7.Select the Exchange features which should be enabled or disabled.
8.Select either the Enable or Disable tab and then change the options accordingly. Click Next to proceed.
9.Review the displayed summary information.
10.Click Next. Click Finish.
How to schedule Mailbox Manager Tasks
1.Open the Exchange System Manager.
2.Select the Exchange server that will run the Mailbox Manager tasks.
3.Click the Action menu and select Properties.
4.Click the Mailbox Management tab.
5.Select the Start Mailbox Management Process option if you want to specify one of the predefined schedules.
6.If you want to create your own schedule, click Custom.
7.Select the Reporting option to send a report to the administrator account indicated on the Administrator tab.
8.Select the Administrator option if you want to specify the administrator account to which reports should be sent.
9.Click OK.
How to configure mailbox cleanup tasks
1.Open the Exchange System Manager.
2.Navigate to the recipient policies container.
3.Select the recipient policies container.
4.Select the Action menu and select New and then Recipient Policy.
5.On the New Policy dialog box, select the Mailbox Manager Settings option.
6.Click OK.
7.Provide a name for the mailbox cleanup policy in the Name field.
8.Click the Modify tab.
9.Specify policy membership for the cleanup policy and then click OK.
10.On the Recipient Policy Change dialog box, click OK.
11.Click the Mailbox Manager Setting (Policy) tab.
12.Specify the mailbox-cleanup options.
13.Click OK.
How to create a report using the Mailbox Manager
1.Open the Exchange System Manager.
2.Navigate to the recipient policies container.
3.Select the recipient policies container.
4.Select the Action menu and select New and then Recipient Policy.
5.On the New Policy dialog box, select the Mailbox Manager Settings option.
6.Click OK.
7.Provide a name for the mailbox recipient policy in the Name field.
8.Click the Modify tab.
9.Specify policy membership for the mailbox policy and then click OK.
10.On the Recipient Policy Change dialog box, click OK.
11.Click the Mailbox Manager Setting (Policy) tab.
12.In the Processing a Mailbox drop-down list box, click the Generate Report Only option.
13.Click OK.
How to recreate an account and reconnect a mailbox
1.Proceed to create the Active Directory accounts using the names of those mailboxes which are going to be recovered.
2.Open the Exchange System Manager.
3.Open the Tools container.
4.Select Mailbox Recovery Center.
5.Click the Action menu and select Add Mailbox Store.
6.Provide the name of the mailbox store that contains the mailboxes which you want to recover. Click OK.
7.Select each mailbox which should be recovered.
8.Click the Action menu and select Find Match.
9.The Exchange Mailbox Matching Wizard starts.
10.Click Next on the Exchange Mailbox Matching Wizard Welcome screen.
11.The results of the search for matches are displayed.
12.After the Exchange Mailbox Matching Wizard has completed, you have to reconnect the mailboxes to the Active Directory account.
13.Select each mailbox that should be reconnected to an Active Directory account.
14.Click the Action menu and select Reconnect.
15.The Exchange Mailbox Reconnect Wizard launches.
16.Click Next on the Exchange Mailbox Reconnect Wizard Welcome page.
17.Verify the information displayed in the Ready to Proceed dialog box.
18.Click Next to reconnect the mailboxes to the Active Directory accounts.
19.Click Finish.