[sdw2003] Register MX Record ...

[Bac Nguyen]

Eric,
Thanks for the info. I have thought about the sub-domain option. But, the
current Network admin is so afraid we will mess up the corporate Email, etc.
So he's not willing to co-operate. So, the safe bet is I need to regsiter a
new domain that we can control and configure it.

Thanks for your inputs.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Eric A Louie <elouie at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.)
>
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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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