Re: Creating Subdomains and routing emails by Phillip
Phillip
Fri Jul 11 07:38:50 PDT 2008
There is no direct relationship between AD Domains and email domains. The
only thing they have in common is that they start with the letter "D".
Exchange will work with any domain you want it to and it has nothing to do
with whatever you called your AD Domain. You AD Domain could be called
"raw-beef.org" and at the same time your email domain could be
"@cold-chicken-soup.net" and it would work just fine.
You just add the new mail domain to Exchange to tell it that it is one of
the Domains that it will "service".
Add/Create/Alter the Exchange Recipient Policy to correspond to the new mail
domain
Have the ISP create an MX Record for the new mail domain and have it point
to the same Host (A) Record that your current MX Record points to.
This is functionaly no different than people having their own mail domain
while still using the ISP's mail server instead of their own in-house mail
server. It is how ISPs can provide mail services for many customers with
many mail domains when those domain obviously do not represent the ISP.
--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com
The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"TSAM" <TSAM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C90FE30-AE36-4ABF-92DF-535B75431054@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> We have Windows 2003 domain called abc.com. I want to create a subdomain
> caled marketing.abc.com. We need to create users with address
> name@marketing.abc.com under AD. What is the best way of approaching this?
>
> We also run Exchange 2003 at this primary site. What needs to be
> configured
> for routing mails addressed to this subdomain? Also, will this cause
> issues
> to current root domain, meaning user@abc.com?
>
> Thanks much