Need some advice on domain name

[tom88]

I am setting up a Domain Server with exchange in an organization that presently has a windows 2000 server running a financial program on 10 client machines. They want to install exchange 2000, which means promoting the server to a domain. Presently they have a web site and us a hosting company for that which includes email. When I set up the domain should I use the same .com name as the web site so all the email names internally will stay the same? How bout email? Any suggestions? Should I set up a second server so I do not interfere with the financial program?

 

[de1458]

just my 2cents, for a local domain, use anything but the same .com, the .com domain should be viewed as the internet presence of the company, and the local domain is for setting up an admin. and security boundary, for a local domain, for example, you can use some thing like company.local or what ever
the email address is config in receipient policy, if I remember correctly sorry this part didn't get burned into my memory, use the exchange system manager.
if it is possible, put the exchange box on a seperated server will give you many benefit, such as you can run loadsim before actually going in production without affecting other app. and later on you might add things like, backup software, antivirus, anti-spam, and etc on top of it.
I know other guys in this forum will have alot to say

 

[Marcs41]

You can specify ANY kind of domain name in the Default policies, even more then one if needed, but only one can be default.
Users can have multiple SMTP addresses then.
You Local domain, is indeed better to use yourdomain.lan or so.

Marc
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