[sdw2003] Register MX Record ...

[Eric A Louie]

Sure there is.  Go to your domain registrar, create a sub-domain (testbes.mycompany.com) of the main domain (mycompany.com) and then create an MX record for testbes.mycompany.com.  Setup new Exchange for that sub-domain, and you're good to go.  On the firewall side, NAT another public IP address to your new Exchange server.  If you have a firewall that doesn't allow you to NAT multiple IP addresses to the inside, then put a 2nd NIC in your Exchange server and give it a public IP address, connect it to your outside switch, and lock the NIC down to allow port 25 and whatever ports that BES requires.  (I'd isolate the internal Exchange server NIC from the production network if you end up connecting the Exchange NIC directly on the public IP network.)
 
Eric Louie
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----- Original Message ----
From: James Eitzen <jeitzen at gmail.com>
To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group <sdw2003 at mattware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:20:52 PM
Subject: Re: [sdw2003] Register MX Record ...

There is no real quick way to do this that I can think of. If you are
looking to keep the test enviorment completely separate from your production
systems, setting up a dummy domain would be the way to go. You would have to
create a new forest and exchange organization and  preferably  its own
public facing interface.

What exactly are you trying to do with the blackberry handhelds? I know that
the sprint web service and email will poll OWA.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Bac Nguyen <surfup at gmail.com> wrote:

> James,
> Yes, we want it publicly available for testing Exchange server and
> Blackberry devices capability.
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:00 PM, James Eitzen <jeitzen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You want this publicly available for live testing? I would just register
> > something like mycompany.net and create a mx record for it. You would
> have
> > to create the records with your DNS host if you want ti publicly
> > available.
> >
> > What are you setting up a BES server?
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bac Nguyen <surfup at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I need to setup a test environment for Exchange 2003 and Blackberry
> and
> > > not
> > > using the company Exchange. I need to register the new MX record for
> > > Exchange server. Is there a "free" way to do this? If not, which is
> the
> > > easy
> > > and quick "pay" way to set this up?
> > >
> > > I have do some searched and look up at "Google Apps", but not sure how
> > it
> > > works, yet?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
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