Hi Guys, I need some advice here!!! We are a Telecoms company and of late we have introduced a new product line in the business (providing landline phones now going to mobile phone service) We now have a complete new section that will be dealing with Mobile product. The current infrastructure that we have is hosting this new product, the probem that we now have is, this section want to have a different domain inside the current domain and have a bit of trust being established between the two domains. The current domain is (example)XXX.bw and they now want their new email addresses to be yyy.bw but using the same infrastructure in terms of servers???I dont know where to start with all this can somebody assist

 

thanks in advance

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Just a man above

my brain is fried, so I prolly read this wrong, but just point the mx record for the new domain to your exchange server, then in exchange add the domain and set it as a primary address and managed by the server.

I read it the same way KB so maybe we are both fried!  ddmanbw, what ver of Exchange is it and we can tell you where to change it.

cheers 

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cheers
Andy

Sorry guys english is my 3rd language.(lol) We are running exchange 2003 (is there need for a new domain controller and new exchange server)

 

Thuso

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Just a man above

Do you mean a second Active Directory domain within the existing setup or do you mean new domain as in Email domain?

If it is just email then your existing users can have both email addresses (one of them wil be primary).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268838

As long as you set our MX record to point to this server (get PTR records to point back too)

 

For what it is worth, I couldn't tell English wasn't your first language.

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cheers
Andy

I need the  ^ I'm with stupid smiley :)

but yeah you wont need another DC or anything, if it's JUST the email address you want to use follow Andy's directions.

 Let us know if you have any problems and we can walk you through it.

 ps. you're English is WAAAYYYYY better than my non existant Tswana :)

Sala sentle

Update guys on this request. I managed to create an MX record and can send email internally and externaly with the new email address of the new MX record. BUT.......(there is always a but) I cant seem to send email to this new email from external emails eg hotmail to this address I get Mail delivery failure error.

Any suggestion here.??? I have now set the new MX record as the primary but still it fails....

 (Killerbananas thanks for copying and pasting Sala Sentle)

Thuso

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Just a man above

In Exchange did you set the domain to be MANAGED by exchange.

You will need the MX record set at your domain registration as well.

 Hope this helps

 Thanks

 KB

What is the error you get in the fail?

Can you check your domain on www.dnstoolbox.com ?

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cheers
Andy

This is the error that I get (domain names replaced with xxxxx)

 

This is the mail system at host xxxxxx.co.za.
 
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
 
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
 
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
 
                   The mail system
 
<thusoma@xxxxxx.co.bw>: user unknown. Command output: Invalid user
    specified.

 

Reporting-MTA: dns; mx.connixinternet.co.za
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: A1265B5C017
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; ddmanbw@hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:25:55 +0200 (SAST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; thusoma@xxxx.co.bw
Original-Recipient: rfc822;thusoma@xxxxx.co.bw
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; Invalid user specified.

 

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Just a man above