Your question is not very clear to me either, but I'll take a stab at it: 1- Mailboxes are NOT physically located on DC, but on Exchange server's Information Store. 2- Email is only an attribute of the user's AD account, not a separate entity. 3- When Exchange is set up initially, the domains it is responsible for handling the email for are defined. You can find this setting in the default policies of Exchange via system manager. 4- When Exchange receives an email for a user, via DNS, it queries and locates the domain controller on which the user's AD account is located. If an account exists and has that email address ASSOCIATED with it, it stores the email in that user's mailbox on the Exchange server.
I hope this gives you the answer you were looking for. If not, let me know and I'll try to explain this further. Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of marwahashem Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 5:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Active Directory & Exchange Server Dear All, As i am still new to the exchange & Active Directly . Now, i have here in My Enviroment one exchange server & One Main Domain Controller & One Backup Domain Controller . All the servers are Windows server 2003 Enterprise Edition. Now, i want to know, how the exchange server knows that when a messages come to this user, this user mail box located on this Domain controller or located on this exchange server ? for example, i have 2 domain as the following :- A- KTA.com B- SUN.KTA.com Now, the users in KTA has the Domain Controller Named DC1, and we have the exchange server responsible about the 2 child domain . How now, the exchange server knows that ? Thanks & Best Regards, Marwa, List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
