Using the Fax Service

As long as you have an e-mail address and a scanner, you have no need for a fax machine or a fax modem. Ninety percent of faxes are documents generated by your computer and can therefore be sent by e-mail. Other types of documents can be easily scanned, saved as a file, and...sent by e-mail.

If you must send faxes to recipients with fax numbers but no e-mail, you can use an Internet-based fax service for a few dollars per month.

However, there are clearly still those who need to send and receive faxes—otherwise why would Windows SBS 2008 offer a way to send, receive, and manage them? This section describes how to use the fax tools.

Adding a Fax Device

It may seem obvious, but to start and configure the fax service, you must first ...

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