To anyone who can help the now emotionally challenged.....



Scenario: have SBS 2003 R2 installed and configured on network. Our
current exchange is outsourced but am attempting to bring email
in-house... slowly. We have 2 options - cut off the hosted exchange
completely or utilize them as a backup server while our in-house
exchange serves as the primary mail server. Problem is that I need to
locate both the MX and A records. I have the IP for the A record but
have yet to find anything within SBS 2003 indicating that it is an MX
record. This is really becoming a tickler for me seeing that I have been
messing around with this for almost 2-weeks now. Anyone that can help
and assist in making certain that my SBS 2003 is properly configured for
mail and locating the MX would be very much appreciated.


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So you have a static public IP for your internet connection from the SBS server?
Who ever handles your public DNS records, have them create the A record for mail.domainname.com and pointed to your public IP. Then have them create the MX record with a priority 0 pointing to the new A record

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"Premierg" <Premierg.41ux7b@newsgroup> wrote in message news:Premierg.41ux7b@newsgroup

To anyone who can help the now emotionally challenged.....

Scenario: have SBS 2003 R2 installed and configured on network. Our
current exchange is outsourced but am attempting to bring email
in-house... slowly. We have 2 options - cut off the hosted exchange
completely or utilize them as a backup server while our in-house
exchange serves as the primary mail server. Problem is that I need to
locate both the MX and A records. I have the IP for the A record but
have yet to find anything within SBS 2003 indicating that it is an MX
record. This is really becoming a tickler for me seeing that I have been
messing around with this for almost 2-weeks now. Anyone that can help
and assist in making certain that my SBS 2003 is properly configured for
mail and locating the MX would be very much appreciated.


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Just to emphasize the info Cris gave you these are public DNS records and there is nothing on your SBS DNS that needs to be configured.
"Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@newsgroup> wrote in message news:OJ6fEaHaKHA.808@newsgroup
So you have a static public IP for your internet connection from the SBS server?
Who ever handles your public DNS records, have them create the A record for mail.domainname.com and pointed to your public IP. Then have them create the MX record with a priority 0 pointing to the new A record

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Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP] (since 1997)
Co-Contributor, Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed
http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Small-...7269967&sr=8-1
Owner, CPU Services, Belleville, IL
A Microsoft Registered Partner
------------------------------------
MVPs do not work for Microsoft
Please do not submit questions directly to me.

"Premierg" <Premierg.41ux7b@newsgroup> wrote in message news:Premierg.41ux7b@newsgroup

To anyone who can help the now emotionally challenged.....

Scenario: have SBS 2003 R2 installed and configured on network. Our
current exchange is outsourced but am attempting to bring email
in-house... slowly. We have 2 options - cut off the hosted exchange
completely or utilize them as a backup server while our in-house
exchange serves as the primary mail server. Problem is that I need to
locate both the MX and A records. I have the IP for the A record but
have yet to find anything within SBS 2003 indicating that it is an MX
record. This is really becoming a tickler for me seeing that I have been
messing around with this for almost 2-weeks now. Anyone that can help
and assist in making certain that my SBS 2003 is properly configured for
mail and locating the MX would be very much appreciated.


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