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Need help with exchange 2000
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| Jim_UK 2002-08-26, 12:37 pm |
| Hi,
Im just about to Install Exchange 2000 for the first time for the company, I have very little experiance of this product and would welcome any help.
we have one domain in our company and we currently have our email hosted via a third party.
Having contact 'The third party' i have change the MX and A records to point to our external IP address.
The problem is can the server which is hosting exchange be in its own domain, or does it have to be a child domian of the comapines domain or can it be just a stand alone server..? ( if you know what i mean).
If our companies email address are ...@fish.com does the domian which the exchange server installed have to be @fish.com ?
As i said any help would be great | |
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| mconnolly 2002-08-31, 2:40 pm |
| Exchange 2000 must be either a member server or a domain controller(it has to be in a domain). You can place it in any domain but to make things easiest, I would place it in the domain that already exists. This is because of dual authentication or trusts. one added advantage of to placing the exchange server in the same domain is that it will automatically create your mail moxes when you use the wizard for creating a user, and you can create the mailbox for the existing users by selecting them in a group, right clicking, click exchange tasks, and finally click mail enable or create mailbox (I don't recall the exact words).
as far as having a different dns names for the domain and the e-mail, just go into the exchange system manager, recipients -> recipient policy. In here you just add your new smtp address and set it as the primary.
That should take care of you |
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