Setup fax server 2003

Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. I am trying to set up the fax service in small business server and am having some issues. I can get the service to receive faxes, but can not send any. I am getting fatal errors and line errors, but am sure the line is fine since it is currenty being used with a fax machine.

Any suggestions? Those general problems are tricky. I just finished getting my fax services to work after I had some problems. Click the dropdown and click install. Let the wizard reinstall it. Hence the reason for using the CD wizard. Only other note is that I used a 4-prong telephone cord had problems with the 2-prong. Maybe it was a fluke, but it works ok for me. Thanks-- good to hear I'm not the only one having problems setting this up. Further, you can specify whether this fax should go first by indicating its priority.

Your options are high, medium, and low. When you're finished making these selections, you can see a preview of your fax, if you like. In Figure K below, I chose to modify my sender information so that the fields would be filled out.

Earlier, you set up a number of fax routing methods to determine how incoming faxes are handled. Now, you need to be a little more specific and tell the fax service exactly where to send this stuff. If you don't, incoming faxes are just lost. That's bad. In the right pane, a list of the available incoming options opens up. Notice in Figure L that each one is marked as disabled by default. To enable a method, open up its properties page right-click the method and select Properties from the shortcut menu and click the second tab from the left in the resulting window.

For each method, a specific properties window lets you select the appropriate option. For example, if you open the Print method properties page and select the Print tab, you get a drop-down box that lets you choose an installed printer to which all incoming faxes will be automatically printed.

See Figure M. For the E-mail Incoming method, you need to provide a valid e-mail address. Incoming faxes are then sent as TIF files to this address. Requirements and installation To use the SBS fax service, your server must have a class 1 fax modem dedicated to the faxing task.

Figure A Install the faxing service. Figure B Share the new fax printer so people can use the service. Devices And Providers The Devices And Providers component allows you to configure your fax devices and determine whether and how they will answer incoming calls and whether they can make outgoing calls. Editor's Picks. The best programming languages to learn in Check for Log4j vulnerabilities with this simple-to-use script. TasksBoard is the kanban interface for Google Tasks you've been waiting for.

Paging Zefram Cochrane: Humans have figured out how to make a warp bubble. Finally, enter the UNC path to the remote fax printer that you set up earlier. Complete the wizard, and the client is ready to send its first fax. Sending a fax Your users can send faxes from any application they can normally print from.

For example, suppose a user wanted to fax a Microsoft Word document. The user would open the document in Word and choose the Print command from the File menu. Next, the user would choose the fax printer from the list of printers in the Print dialog box and click OK. Word would launch the Send Fax Wizard. The Send Fax Wizard is also accessible through the Start All Programs Accessories Communications Fax menu should a user want to fax a quick note from outside an application.

The Send Fax Wizard would ask the user for the names and numbers of those receiving the fax. Windows would then ask the user to choose a fax cover. The user can select from a variety of built-in covers as well as use this screen to enter a subject line and a note to the recipient. After entering this information, the user is given a chance to preview the fax.

If everything looks good, the user would simply click Finish to send the fax. The Fax Console is fairly simple, allowing you to view inbound and outbound faxes at a glance. It has four containers: The Incoming and Outbox containers let you view faxes that are currently being sent and received; the Inbox and Sent Items containers enable you to look at which faxes have already been sent and received. The Microsoft Fax Service Manager is a bit more complex.

For outbound faxes, you can use the Devices And Providers section to control which fax modems will be used. You can also cancel the installation of Fax Voip by clicking Cancel and to install the latest version of Microsoft.

Fax Voip setup program automatically detects whether Fax Voip is already installed and what version is installed, and offers to remove Fax Voip before starting of new installation.

To continue with the installation click Next. When you reinstall or upgrade from version 6. When upgrading from version 6. Wait for the finishing of removal of the previous version. At the final window of the pre-installation wizard click Next. The Fax Voip Setup Wizard will be started. Click Next. Follow the Setup Wizard.