Installing IMS Question

[Zcript3r]

I am trying to install the IMS on a new Exchange Server 5.5. I keep reading about how it is not necassary to have a DNS Server installed onsite if you are currently setup to use your ISP's DNS Server. If this is the case, how do you get around the requirement of having a DNS Server installed, or, what settings do you put in the DNS Server to pacify Exchange Server so that IMS can be installed? I am basically trying to duplicate the setup on my Exchange Server 4.0, and can not do it until I have IMS installed.

TIA!!

Rob

 

[lanceja]

If I am reading your post right, the main thing you need to do is make sure the computer that your Exchange server is on is setup for DNS under the TCP/IP properties. If the computer is using your DNS address from your ISP then when you setup the IMS, just tell it to use the default DNS. I think it is under the router tab. Am not at my Exchange server now or would give a better answer.

Hopefully this helps

 

[MQCarpenter]

I think I have a similar problem. Is this the message you get:

"The Internet Mail Service requires the DNS domain to be configured on XXXX. To configure the domain name, use the NETOWRK icon in the control panel XXX or choose another server."

I am trying to install a new E5.5 on a W2K server, and it keeps telling me to set my DNS up, but it IS!!! I am not sure what to try next! ------------------------

"...Mr. Charles Darwin had the balls to ask..."

~REM

 

[Zelandakh]

Is the DNS on the same box as Exchange?

On the Exchange box go to cmd prompt and do nslookup. See if the server listed is the DNS server.

Could be that DNS is configured but Exchange server is not looking at it...

Check Network prefs for DNS server search order.

 

[Zcript3r]

I think that quetion that I need answered is "Does DNS have to be on the Exchange Server?", or can we configure the server somehow to make the Internet Mail Service install without DNS on the Exchange Server?

 

[ChrisHirst]

If I remember correctly from setting up Exchange on NT4 the error is caused by the machine not having a FQDN for the hostname. It does not relate to needing a DNS server on the network directly. Can't quite remember the exact way to do this for NT4 (No NT4 machine handy) but all you need to fill in in a hostname and domain name on the appropriate tab on TCP/IP network properties.

If I go into the office over the weekend I will post up the exact procedure.

Chris.

 

[Zcript3r]

Thank you Chris!!!
Rob

 

[dschwerr]

Look for this article Q247063 XFOR: DNS Error Installing Internet Mail Service on Windows 2000 Standard Server
SYMPTOMS

As posted by pmsbony earlier.