Re: Remote access and Email on different Domains

The biggest problem that you have is that you named your internal network "something.com". Best practice always has been and always will be, that your internal network be .local (or anything not associated with a valid internet domain extension)

The internal domain (.local) is then handled by the DNS server within SBS and has no relationship to your external .com domain name. You run the CEICW and tell it that your domain for mail is "ourcompany.com".

This would have automatically set up every user with a "ourcompany.com" email address. Then to set up remote access and the self signed certificate, you simply use the same url as is being used for the mx record for "ourcompany.com" which should be pointing to the public IP of your SBS server. Something like mail.ourcompany.com Then for remote access the URL is http://mail.ourcompany.com/remote


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"Stefano Colasanti (Fritzly)" <Fritzly@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:11DB496E-72F4-48A2-AB2D-4266976A27EE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for your post Chris;
when we planned to setup a web site to promote and sell our company products we did not have a server/exchange network yet. In other words we were using the mail-boxes on the web site.
Later we decided to implement a "real" server based network in our office and we deployed SBS 2003; this is the reason why we have "ourcompany.com" pointing to the public web site and "ourserver.com" to access our internal, private network.
Setting Exchange to retrieve emails from our "public" domain is very simple because CEICW asks you specifically what is your email domain while IAMW, the wizard in SBS 2008, does not and automatically set your email domain using the same name you use for remote access.
During the week-end I found out that in order to use a different email domain you have to:

Complete IAMW first

Open "Exchange Management Console"/ Open "Organization Configuration"/ Open "Hub transport" and create a "New accepted domain" using your email domain name.

Once the above steps are completed you need to create a "New email address policy"; once this step is completed you will be able to receive emails using your email domain name.

While, considering that even I was able to figure it out, this is not rocket science, at the same time it is not as straightforward as it was in SBS 2003.

Thanks again for your advices.

Stefano Colasanti



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"Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OamtnzlJJHA.5972@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You can host email for multiple domains on any version of SBS so:

Set up domainname.com and appropriate records whereever the domainname.com dns records are going to be hosted
create an "A" record pointing remote.domainname.com to your public IP

Setup mycompanyname.com MX records to also point to your public IP

When you run the ceicw and need to specific the domain name for your self signed cert, specify remote.domainname.com specifiy your domain name as domainname.com. Make sure you open the firewall to allow RWW, OWA, and internal website if you choose.

Then you'll need to open Exchange System Manager and go to recipient polices, add a new one for yourcompanyname.com. Then make this the primary address for everyone in AD

Does that address your issue??

Can't imagine why you wouldn't use the email domain though for everything.
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Co-Author, Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed
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"Stefano Colasanti" <Fritzly@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8E3099A2-3746-4EF3-BEEB-7651B66A0AC0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Does anybody know if MS has published a workaround about how to host
your e-mail using one domain, and access the hosted web sites using a
different one?
Specifically:

In SBS2003 CEICW allows to set a domain to remotely
access the server using "yourservername.com" and, separately, your exchange
email using "yourcompanyname.com".
When running IAMW with SBS 2008 this is impossible; if I use "ourservername.com" I am able to remotely access the server but not to receive email sent to
(xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx); if I run IAMW and use "ourcompanyname.com" I
receive email sent to (xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) but I cannot access our
server at "ourservername.com".
TIA
Stefano




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