In House Exchange and DC Windows 2008 Server with Hosted Website 2

[silentsteel]

I have been tasked with setting up an in house domain controller for our impending migration to an in-house exchange server. I am running into a problem with the fact that we also have a website that is to remain hosted. Our email and the website use the same "example.com". I have not had much luck searching for a solution on how to point the http requests to the web hosting company, while still resolving dns and email for the local network.

 

[itsp1965]

I think what you are looking for is called split-brain DNS. Take a look at the following whitepaper which describes setting up in Win2k3 (shouldn't be that much diff in Win2K8)

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=85966

HTH

 

[58sniper]

Split brain will help, but keep in mind that you'd likely want something like mail.example.com for mail, not just example.com.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[silentsteel]

Thank you for your answers. That took care of it.

 

[58sniper]

Be sure to tip your waitress. A star for itsp1965 for providing the correct answer.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/