Migrating Domain Names

[Rick Kasten]

My company - companyname.com - was able to purchase a shorter domain
name - company.com - from the former owner who went out of business.
So now we want to convert everything to company.com. The new domain
is already owned by us, and I have setup some mailboxes in Exchange
2003 to receive (e-mail address removed), and that works. My question is: how
do I move forward? How do I migrate my companyname.com AD 2003
directory to company.com? How do I enable people to send email as
(e-mail address removed)? Do I need to setup a duplicate internal DNS table
for company.com?

Any and all help is appreciated.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

My company - companyname.com - was able to purchase a shorter domain
name - company.com - from the former owner who went out of business.
So now we want to convert everything to company.com. The new domain
is already owned by us, and I have setup some mailboxes in Exchange
2003 to receive (e-mail address removed), and that works. My question is: how
do I move forward? How do I migrate my companyname.com AD 2003
directory to company.com? How do I enable people to send email as
(e-mail address removed)? Do I need to setup a duplicate internal DNS table
for company.com?

No - you don't do anything in AD for this. You just need to add company.com
to your recipient policy, make it the default, and make sure all mailboxes
get stamped with the right address on that domain. Then whomever hosts your
public DNS needs to set up the MX record for it so that it gets to your
Exchange server.

 

[Kirill S. Palagin]

You need to edit default Recipient Policy.

My company - companyname.com - was able to purchase a shorter domain
name - company.com - from the former owner who went out of business.
So now we want to convert everything to company.com. The new domain
is already owned by us, and I have setup some mailboxes in Exchange
2003 to receive (e-mail address removed), and that works. My question is: how
do I move forward? How do I migrate my companyname.com AD 2003
directory to company.com? How do I enable people to send email as
(e-mail address removed)? Do I need to setup a duplicate internal DNS table
for company.com?

Any and all help is appreciated.

 

[Rick Kasten]

Ok, that worked. Now what do I do about the domain itself?

RK

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Ok, that worked. Now what do I do about the domain itself?

Not sure what you mean.....do you mean the public DNS for that domain? See
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF010.html

RK

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

No - you don't do anything in AD for this. You just need to add
company.com to your recipient policy, make it the default, and make
sure all mailboxes get stamped with the right address on that
domain. Then whomever hosts your public DNS needs to set up the MX
record for it so that it gets to your Exchange server.