I’m looking to install CloudPanel in our environment, as it looks like a great solution for a task I have coming where I will need to host the email for a sister company on our Exchange 2013 server.
The first question I have before I start though is for clarification on my existing environment (or host as you refer to it?).
In the QuickStart video, it looks to me like you’re setting up CloudPanel in an Exchange environment with no existing AD structure – though I may be wrong.
Right now, we have our existing mailboxes (that shouldn’t be touched or affected by adding in a multi-tenancy company) sitting in the root as such:
Active Directory Users and Computers [adc1.domain.local]
+ Builtin
+ Computers
+ Etc…
……..
+ Domain Users and Computers
+ User Accounts
+ Microsoft Exchange Security Groups
+ Etc…
……..
I have no problem following along the video with creating the additional OU’s and security groups, just got confused when you included the host email to the newly created Hosted OU.
All CloudPanel does is run remote powershell commands to Exchange to associate users with specific Address Book Policies.
It won’t be a problem to integrate a multi-tenant environment into your existing structure as long as new mailboxes (that should be segregated from other companies) are associated with address book policies that CloudPanel creates.
The only problem I see you having is your existing users (which sound like they may not be associated with a address book policy) will see everyone in the GAL. Meaning they will see all users, groups, and everything. However the new users won’t.
Yes – you’re exactly right – I did a test implementation of multi-tenancy and existing users could see all. No Bueno.
Do you have a quick resource what I need to do to remedy this?
Would need to associate the existing users with their own policy.
Can do it manually or create new companies in CloudPanel, enable exchange which will create all the lists and policies for you and then import the users.
I can do it for you if you need assistance
Apparently it’s not going to be an issue for our two companies to see each others address lists. The upper-ups don’t mind.
Given that… what, if anything, of the “Setup Microsoft Exchange” can be omitted in the Quick Setup instructions?
You still should run it all.
