Chaning Domain Names

[MattJpopo]

I am fairly new to Exchange and network administratotion, I have a question about a problem I am having. This past weekend our network changed domain names from one domain name to a new domain name. I changed all the email accounts to reflect the new domain and they are working fine. I can receive email from outside the network as well as inside the network.

The problem is that our next step is changing the web site to the new domain. On the old and new web site there is employee access to their email using OWA. On the old web site the link goes to

http://mail.OurOldDomainName/exchange/logon.asp.

On the new web site we have the employee logon link pointing to

http://mail.OurNewDomainName/exchange/logon.asp.

The new link will not work for the new domain name.

Could someone let me know exactly what I need to do to get the new link to work. Is there a setting in Exchange that I can specify the new domain name? I am running Exchange 5.5 on NT 4.0 sp6. Our DNS server is NT 4.0 sp6. Also, I know this is not Exchange related, but would I add a new DNS Domain in the DNS Server or would a new DNS Record be enough?

Matt

 

[brontosaurus]

A new DNS record would be enough, assuming you've already created a new zone for the domain.

 

[MattJpopo]

please disregard this post. I have figured out the problem. It wasn't anything on the exchange server. I only had to add a new zone in on our DNS server.

Matt

 

[sojournx]

You can check this by using the nslookup at the command line. ie...

EXAMPLE

c:\>nslookup mail.domainname.com

This should return something like:

Server: DCservername.domainname.com (DomainController)
Address: 192.168.200.13 (DCserver ip)

Name: mail.domainname.com
Address: 192.168.200.5 (DNS resolution. this should point to your EXCH. Server)

If you get this:
*** DCservername.domainname.com can't find mail.domainname.com: Non-existent domain

You can figure that you need to modify your DNS record till it resolves.

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