New Exchange 2010 Setup

[fieryhail]

Hello,

I've been tasked with setting up an Exchange 2010+Server 2008 setup for a client. The client has numerous internet domains to correlate to their "sister companies". They want all email to be handled by the Exchange 2010 organization. Any guides or suggestions as to how to best set this system for the multiple internet domains? Looking to have the AD domain as something.local. Currently, there is no AD in place at all. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[58sniper]

AD domain isn't relevant. Add the various domains in the accepted domains list, and configure an address policy to give the appropriate addresses to the users. It's all in the help files, Technet, and product documentation.

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/

 

[fieryhail]

I appreciate your response. I was thinking along the lines that it was simple such as adding the various internet domains under the accepted domains list. I've also been going through the product doc/Technet as well. I come from a Lotus Domino/Notes background so Exchange is still a relatively new way of doing things for me. Not all that different, just different ways of achieving the same results. Thanks again.

 

[58sniper]

Some things to keep in mind. You have to have them in your accepted domains for your server to accept mail addressed to that domain. THEN, you have to stamp the users with a valid address on that domain, and that's where the address policies come into play. But they only ADD addresses. They won't remove them.

Welcome to Exchange. As someone who does Notes->Exchange migrations, you're coming over to the "better" side.

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/

 

[fieryhail]

I appreciate the additional information Sniper. As far as the "better" side of things is concerned, Domino/Notes had a big upside, which was their cross-platform support, both on server and client. I admin a mixed network, with both Windows Servers, Linux, and Solaris in the backend. As far as clients are concerned, mostly Windows, but some linux and mac users as well (I am a Mac user myself). With the release of Office 2011 for OS X, now with an Outlook client, I think I will enjoy Exchange more than previousely when I was limited to either Entourage or OWA. But I always enjoy working with new technology.