RE: Exchange newbie

Tue, 07 May 2002 09:34:34 -0700

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Mr... Ely,
 
Here is a good link to Start with http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_faq/glossary/glossarytoc.htm If you are new to exchange might I also suggest these links.
 
 
Good Luck sir.
~Kevinm SSA
-----Original Message-----
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

What is DNS?  I am a newbie too!  :o)
 
Please thanks for all your halp...
-----Original Message-----
From: Purviance, Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Nick,

            Not necessarily "no real purpose" many external IE not owned by you. Mail servers will use your MX record to find the Mail eXchanger for your domain, this is its purpose. I have found it is ALWAYS better to properly define the host (A) record for your mail server, and the mail exchanger (MX) correctly pointing to the host. This is DNS 101 rules IMHO.

 

Chad Purviance

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:52 PM
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Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

 

So for my single server setup it doesn't really serve a purpose?  Thanks for the help.

 

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:55 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Obviously, it is a special record that points to your mail server, but what it really represents, I think, is a route for SMTP traffic.  If you have multiple servers accepting email for an SMTP domain, MX records can be assigned costs with a relative relationship to assign priorities to certain mail routes.

 

In a single server environment it may not seem to make much sense to have a separate DNS resource record to indicate where the Mail Exchange Server is.  But some companies have multiple routes, some companies have email hosted elsewhere. 

 

 

William

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Are you serious?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nickolaos Fotopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Sorry to hijack again, but what purpose does the MX record serve.  It seems to just be another level of abstraction between a domain name and its IP.  Can anyone enlighten me please?

 

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:18 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Moving the mailboxes and everything off the old server to the new one.

 

I was just wondering if there was a way to keep the 2 server syncronized durring the transition.

-----Original Message-----
From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Woohh.....

 

Are you moving mailboxes to a new server? Or upgrading an existing server?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:41 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange newbie

 

I am trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine.

The exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with aliases in the user mailboxes.

I ran the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new mailboxes without errors or warnings.

What I have and would like to know...

oldserver
----
netbios = some_name
dns = another_name.subnet.domain.edu
mx = mail.subnet.domain.edu

newserver
----
netbios = newname
dns = newname.subnet.domain.edu

 

I would like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new server...am I going to have problems?

Is there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2 servers to the old and new mailboxes?

I am afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and will need to syncronize them.

I am also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined.

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