I have a question on exchange server 2010. The agency I’m currently with has our domain and email hosted by GoDaddy. Due to a software upgrade including an employee self service module that we want to use, we’re required to run our email in-house so we can use anonymous relay to send people a new password when they forget (and they will) their employee self service login password.
Question: does the active directory domain name (contoso.local) have the be same as our hosted domain name (contosocounty.net)? During the exchange server setup, which I’ve already done, I have setup everything as “contoso.local” After setup, I noticed that our emails are going to, e.g. jseinfeld at contoso.local instead of the current email he has jseinfeld at contosocounty.net which will be a big problem for the users here. We would have to change our email addresses! Plus, I don’t think we would be able to email externally with a .local account.
I understand that once I have everything setup correctly then I’ll call godaddy, cancel the email service, and have them walk me through pointing exchange server “stuff” like mx records in their DNS settings.
Anyway, so what can I do to keep the contosocounty.net?
Thanks very much.
