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Using .local domain on LAN, .com for public email

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lionelbrown

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I setup my exchange server on a local network (company.local). Everything worked fine, but I needed to receive our external email sent to @company.com. I changed the default exchange policy to use @company.com and updated to all AD users. This worked fine (all users now have 2 smtp addresses associated with their AD object: @company.local and @company.com). Email works internally and externally now. My problem is that when Scheduling a meeting with another user (using the address book or typing in the name of the person), Outlook pulls the @company.com for the address and assumes the user is external. It then pops up a dialog telling me the free/busy information is not available for the user and suggests I use the Microsoft Internet service for free/busy. If I type in user@company.local for the person I wish to schedule a meeting with, it is able to retrieve the free/busy info. Is there a way to get around this? Should I have set up the @company.com addresses differently? By the way, we have an internal dns server but are not using split dns.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
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