Exchange setup

[sixf00t4]

a small business has an exchange 5.5 win2k server, with active directory and an internal domain setup. internally, you can send and receive mail with username@name.internal (where 'name.internal' is the name of the local domain) but obviously that doesnt work externally.

they already have their businessname.com email hosted by someone, and they want to make the transistion to their exchange server as seamless as possible (duh) but i don't know how to add their "businessname.com" to exchange, so exchange knows to handle mail for it. I want to be sure exchange is set up before i change the MX record to the exchange server. anything to offer would be grand

[Siliconjunkie]

I THINK that you have to setup the SMTP connector to accept mail for that domain.

There is also a way to setup the pop3 connector to go fetch pop3 mail for you which means that you do not have to expose that server to the internet.

[sixf00t4]

i am thinking i have to change something in active directory too. In the properties window of each user, there is a drop down box which right now only has 'name.internal' as an option, so when someone used the exchange webmail client, it comes from username@name.internal so some how i have to figure that out too.

[Siliconjunkie]

You can alias the address in Exchange.

[sixf00t4]

http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2002%5F...lumns/bschorr/

Q Our company is changing its SMTP domain name, but we want to continue to receive Internet mail sent to the original SMTP domain also. How do I accomplish this with Exchange 2000?


—Mac, Charlotte, N.C.


A Jim: Mac, you're in luck. Exchange 2000 easily supports multiple SMTP domain names. Let's assume your old domain name is oldcompany.com and your new domain name is newcompany.com. For Exchange 2000 SMTP virtual servers to accept both of these SMTP domains, you must define them in a recipient policy. The simplest way to do this is to edit the default recipient policy using Exchange System Manager and add an additional SMTP domain for newcompany.com on the E-Mail Addresses property tab (see Figure 1). Although you can add additional SMTP addresses directly to an individual mailbox-enabled user using Active Directory Users and Computers, the server won't accept inbound SMTP mail for additional domains until you add them to a recipient policy.


Figure 1 Add an SMTP Domain


Ben: I agree this is a pretty simple thing to do, but one common mistake people make is to add the new SMTP domain to the E-Mail Addresses property tab but forget to designate the new address as the primary one. To do this, highlight newcompany.com and click on the Set as Primary button.

Once you've done that, even if the users receive mail at old-company.com, their reply address will be newcompany.com.

Jim: But you shouldn't switch newcompany.com to be the primary address until you're ready to go live with the new domain name. Before you go live, you need to have a Mail Exchange (MX) record for newcompany.com that points to your Exchange server.

[blubomber]

Exchange can receive mail for different domains on one server. you do not have to do anything in AD, since win2k and Exchange 5.5 dont communicate well. You will also have to tell the ISP to direct mail.businessname.com to your public IP. And then go through the setup process for your SMTP.

[Siliconjunkie]

You will also have to tell the ISP to direct mail.businessname.com to your public IP.

Thats what he meant by changing the MX record. The MX record is a DNS record that tells other mail servers where to direct mail for that domain.

Good find Six