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by simplebob

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We have a website hosted by godaddy and we have a email server in our office. We want to be able to connect to our exchange server via www.ourname.com/exchange. does this have to be done in our DNS or how does it know where to go?

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by netwrk_admn

You will need a nameserver to propagate the information on the outside (to the world). Pointing your internal DNS to the will only help your workstations locally.

You will need some translation in your corporate firewall or router settings to transfer all http requests from the outside IP to your mail server's IP. From there you would use IIS to map your exchange OWA (i would look for KB articles as i have never set one up from scratch). Hope that helps! Good luck.

by faradhi

Ok, here is the problem. DNS will only bring you to anything before the slash.

That is www.ourname.com is defined by DNS. the /exchange part is on your server.

Since you will need to leave www.ourname.com's DNS entry pointing to godaddy for your web site you will not be able to use www.ourname.com/exchange as your exchange server address. Rather, you will need to register a subdomain like mail.ourname.com. Your DNS administrator should be able to enter this into your DNS.

I hope this helps.

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