change domain from .local to .com

[webcortech]

I orginally setup the domain as company.local. I want to change it company.net for the domain so when the users login for OWA or any authenication, they can use their email address.

If I change Primary DNS suffix, will this work then? Looking at a user in AD, on their properties in account it says:

User logon name @company.local ( i want to change company.local to company.com)

Thanks!

 

[ncolsgk]

For our OWA setup, the users arent required to enter their email address, just username and password. Our domain is company.local.

 

[markdmac]

Changing the domain name is not necessary. Users should be going to the MX record for your domain which should be your public address. Make sure that within the Recipient Update Policy you have set the external addresses as the default. Within IIS you can specify the default domain. Your user will then only need to enter their username and password to login.

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[webcortech]

For instance... If my users POP from exchange, their authentication can be either:

domainname\user

or

user@company.local

So it should make more sense to use user@company.com

 

[markdmac]

As I stated, set their default email address to the the .com address.

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[markdmac]

I guess I should also state that you shoudl look in Active Directory Users & Computers at what you have set as the Windows 2003 compatible login. You probably have that set to the .local address.

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[webcortech]

right, I have set to .local and I want to change it .com for their login domain.

 

[markdmac]

Consider using vbscript or ADMODIFY to make bulk changes to all users.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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