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You can install the Fax Server role remotely, but you need to make sure that local resource sharing is turned off. When you do this, you will see a message that Print and Document Services also needs to be installed with the Fax Server role. On the Select Fax Users page, click Add and then type the domain and user name for groups and users that will have access to the fax server to send or receive faxes. Click OK and then click Next. Click Only routing assistants can access the fax server inbox to limit access to the inbox to just members of the Routing Assistants user group.

These users are responsible for routing faxes in the inbox to the intended recipients. You will specify group members later in the wizard. Click All users can access the fax server inbox to give all users with access to the fax server the ability to view all received faxes. This option provides less privacy because every fax user can access all received faxes, but also requires less management.

If you chose to limit access to the inbox to Routing Assistants, on the Select Routing Assistants page, click Add and then type the group name or domain and user name for groups and users who will be members of the Routing Assistants group.

Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. My clients previous faxserver was a Captaris Faxpress machine and they were able to accumulate multiple attachments into one single fax. Now moving to Windows fax each attachment is sending as an independent fax. So when we send multiple attachments say 2 or 3, the recipient receives either 2 or 3 different faxes.

However, if needed, you can also enable a device to send later. The identification information typically appears in the banner in a fax message to help the recipient determine where the fax originated.

You must specifically enable a fax device to receive—it is not enabled by default. A fax device can be configured to answer incoming calls automatically or manually. The manual option is useful if your fax and telephone share the same incoming line.

And you can specify the number of rings before answering. A higher number of rings before answering is useful if your fax and telephone share the same incoming line, to give you time to answer the telephone. As part of this process, you can also specify an optional Called Subscriber ID CSID string, a text string used to identify a fax recipient to a fax sender. To configure fax devices, such as a fax printer, you must be a member of the Administrators group or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

In the left pane, double-click Devices and Providers , and then click Devices. In the right pane, right-click the device you want to configure, and then click Send. This string is limited to 20 characters. Later, if you want to disable the fax device from sending faxes, right-click the device, and then click Send to clear the check mark. In the right pane, right-click the device you want to configure, click Properties , and then click the General tab. To configure whether calls are answered automatically or manually, select the Receive faxes check box, and then do one of the following:.

Click Automatic Answer to enable the fax device to answer calls automatically, and then type a number for the value in the Rings before answering field.

The default number of rings is 5. If your fax and telephone do not share a line, you should decrease this number. If your fax and telephone do share a line, and you decide to increase this number, do not increase it so much that the fax sender stops transmission. Later, if you want to disable the fax device from receiving faxes, right-click the device, and then clear either the Auto Receive or Manual Receive check box.

For outgoing faxes, you can also configure receipts, whether you will enable your users to create and use personal cover pages, and what your organization will include in the banners of sent faxes. Fax administrators have full control over the incoming fax queue. This queue is the collective queue for all receiving fax devices that are managed by the fax server—it corresponds to the Incoming folder. Users who are not members of the Administrators group need to be assigned permissions to view or manage the incoming fax queue.

A fax remains in the incoming fax queue until it is received successfully and routed in accordance with the policy specified by the fax administrator. Only then is it moved to the inbox. If a fax is not routed successfully for some reason, it remains in the incoming fax queue until it is deleted manually—or it is handled in accordance with the automatic deletion policy that you have configured for the fax queue.

You can control incoming fax jobs handled by the Fax service by disabling the reception of faxes into the incoming fax queue. If the reception of a fax is stopped while being received, but a portion of the fax is successfully received, the fax is assigned the Partially received status and is moved to the Inbox folder.

On the General tab, select Disable reception of new faxes to block new faxes from being added to the incoming fax queue. Administrators can configure incoming fax routing methods to route incoming faxes to recipients on the network.

In Fax Service Manager, there are incoming fax routing extensions that are global applied to all devices and others that are associated with just individual fax devices. For global methods, you can set the priority order in which they are applied to an incoming fax.

Non-Microsoft vendors can extend the global methods for incoming faxes. Extensions could include, for example, converting incoming files to specific file formats. Individual incoming fax routing methods are configured per device. After a method is configured, it can then be enabled or disabled.

More than one incoming fax routing method can be applied to incoming faxes, and if a method is disabled, the device skips that method and processes the incoming fax in order of global-level priority. A disabled incoming fax routing method appears with an icon an arrow pointing down over it in the right pane. Route through e-mail. Specify the e-mail address for receiving incoming faxes. Store in a folder. Specify the local or network path of the folder to which a copy of incoming faxes will be saved.

If you choose this method, make sure that the folder you use has access to the Network Service account. You can use incoming fax routing methods to control what happens to faxes that are received by a fax device managed by the fax server. You can use any combination of routing methods to forward received faxes to an e-mail address, store faxes in a folder, or print faxes.

In the left pane, double-click Devices and Providers , double-click Devices , double-click the device you want to configure, and then click Incoming Methods.

In the right pane, right-click the method you want to configure, click Properties , and then do the following:. To configure the Route through e-mail method, click the E-mail tab, and then type the e-mail address to which you want incoming faxes to be delivered. For the Print method, click the Print tab, and then type the UNC path of the printer for incoming faxes.

After the incoming methods have been configured, in the details pane, right-click each method, and then click Enable to enable the method, or Disable to disable it. You might want to disable a method if, for example, you want to temporarily disable printing because the printer is not working and faxes are getting stuck in the inbox.

You should use this procedure if you have chosen to configure the Route through e-mail method for a fax device. To enable incoming faxes to be routed to recipients by e-mail, click the Receipts tab and then do the following:.

In From e-mail address , type the e-mail address to which all incoming faxes will be received. Also on the Receipts tab, click Authentication , and then, based on how your SMTP server is set up, do one of the following:.

Click Basic authentication , click Credentials , and then type a user name and password. In the search box, type network , and then, under Network and Sharing Center , click View network computers and devices.

Windows Fax and Scan is already included in Windows Server To enable Windows Fax and Scan:. To complete the installation, your server must be restarted. If there is an error during the installation, it will be noted on the Installation Results page. Was this reply helpful?