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Thanks found this blog very useful and helpful

2008-12-06T00:48:00.000-08:00

Thanks found this blog very useful and helpful

If you are just doing websites (HTTP), why not jus...

2008-11-15T19:55:00.000-08:00

If you are just doing websites (HTTP), why not just use port 80 and host headers? Why don't you look at the other attached #1, #2, #3, #4 hosting multiple domains.

Sean

Can anyone help!I am trying to setup multiple inte...

2008-11-15T09:12:00.000-08:00

Can anyone help!

I am trying to setup multiple internal website on an SBS server for development purposes.

However having created two sites in ISS, only one site to will run, the second erros "The webpage cannot be found".

Am using single defualt IP address and ports 81 & 82

An help pointer appriciated.

thats a bit annoying I was hoping to find a post f...

2008-04-27T22:47:00.000-07:00

thats a bit annoying I was hoping to find a post from someone that had solved the sending from multiple domain addresses problem, I've done all the policie stuff and added the second domain smtp addresses to uses, I don't want to setup pop accounts on every machine, the distribution list looks like my only option. there must be some hack to let you send from another address and not give you a permission error COMMON!!!!

Hi there i have the same problem regarding two dom...

2008-01-15T10:23:00.000-08:00

Hi there i have the same problem regarding two domains. I have a customer who is using two mail domains using VPOP and we want to upgrade them to SBS 2003, We connect via adls and a IP is not an option (not available) so we cannot depend on a MX record. the mail is currently spooling to one mail box from the isp so they are handling it any recommendations????

Did you make sure to make your domain authoritive ...

2007-11-18T14:30:00.000-08:00

Did you make sure to make your domain authoritive for the other domain in the recipient policy?

Also, you can't send email from outside the domain, the server will require authenticated access to send mail from outside the domain.

I am having the same issue as one of the previous ...

2007-11-09T12:43:00.000-08:00

I am having the same issue as one of the previous posts and did not see where it had been resolved.

I have setup my second email as indicated but when I try to send an email externally, it bounces back as unable to realy. If I send the email internally (from within my own network) it works fine.

You could setup a message rule for inbound mail to...

2007-10-20T13:49:00.000-07:00

You could setup a message rule for inbound mail to go into seperate "Inbox" for each domain. This would tell your workders what address the mail was sent to.

Nope, I don't think you've missed anything. Witho...

2007-07-17T23:12:00.000-07:00

Nope, I don't think you've missed anything. Without looking at the email headers,it's impossible to tell. What I would do in this case, is setup a Distribution Group for the second email address, and make the user the only member, then they will be able to tell which email account it was sent to.

Sorry I don't have a better solution for you.

Hi Sean,Great stuff you've put on here! Thanks. I...

2007-07-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

Hi Sean,

Great stuff you've put on here! Thanks. I appear to have a problem with the 2 domain scenario where all the mail is coming into one box.
When collected by Outlook, The user cannot tell if the mail has come in to him/her as user@doamin1 or user@domain2 .. is there a woraround? or am I missing something?

Thanks.. Omar

can you be more specific of which mails sent to th...

2007-03-02T08:05:00.000-08:00

can you be more specific of which mails sent to the second domain?

first thank you for this information.I have done a...

2007-03-01T22:32:00.000-08:00

first thank you for this information.
I have done as you descriped, but the mails from the second domain is sendt to the administrator account, what am I doing wrong?

The Exchange POP3 service is not enabled by defaul...

2007-02-24T10:36:00.000-08:00

The Exchange POP3 service is not enabled by default, have you started the service and opened port 110 from your network firewall to your SBS Server?

I have an sbs2003 server with one user that cannot...

2007-02-23T11:56:00.000-08:00

I have an sbs2003 server with one user that cannot authenticate via pop3. User login is fine, OWA is fine. Changed passwords, gave the user administrative rights, all to no avail. Any suggestions?

What roadblocks are you hitting? it's extremely h...

2007-02-05T08:15:00.000-08:00

What roadblocks are you hitting? it's extremely hard to find a problem in your list of configurations. If you tell us the problem you're having, we may be able to look at your configuration and find the issue.

Thanks...

Glad to come across this blog - great work guys! ...

2007-01-29T13:53:00.000-08:00

Glad to come across this blog - great work guys!

Now, I'm coming across some roadblocks and I need some help in making sure I have the correct configuration for hosting multiple email domains on my SBS 2003.
Your help is greatly apreciated!

Let me explain the architecture:

1. Domains are registered with GoDaddy (say "mydomain1.com" & "mydomain2.com")
This is my current GoDaddy Setup for domain "domain1.com"
CNAMES
Host Points To
domain1.com domain1.dnsalias.org

MX Exchange
Priority Host Goes To
0 domain1.com domain1.dnsalias.org

2. Using DynDns with associated pointers: "mydomain1.dyndns.org" & "mydomain2.dyndns.org"
Domain is correctly pointing to my server's IP (123.123.123.123)
Mail Exchanger (optional) set to: "domain1.dnsalias.org"

3. SBS 2003 (with dynamic IP - updated with dyndns.org)
Receipient policies updated to include "@domain1.com" and "@domain2.com" respectively

An MX lookup leads:
Non-authoritative answer:

domain1.com canonical name = domain1.dnsalias.org
domain1.dnsalias.org MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = domain1.dnsalias.org
domain1.dnsalias.org internet address = 123.123.123.123 (correct Server IP address)

To All: this third-party utility can help you to ...

2006-11-29T03:56:00.000-08:00

To All:

this third-party utility can help you to solve the "send as" problem:

http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefrom.shtml

Regards,
Victor

You're very welcome. :) Happy that it worked out....

2006-07-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

You're very welcome. :) Happy that it worked out.

Um...I'm embarassed. After a reboot it all automa...

2006-07-26T05:35:00.000-07:00

Um...I'm embarassed. After a reboot it all automagically works!

Thanks for your help!

Sean,Using a wildcard certificate (homebrewed - sb...

2006-07-26T05:30:00.000-07:00

Sean,

Using a wildcard certificate (homebrewed - sbs rocks) and your virtual HTTP dir tie in with Exchange vir dir I am able to get everyone working bar one group.

It serves up the Remote Web Workplace screen but after entering the user's credentials it returns immediately back to the log on page (same page as before) and both username and password boxes are blank.

I can log these users on internally on my network just fine but externally it exhibits the above behavior.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help thus far, I've subscribed to your blog and am looking forward to it. Also congrats on your marriage - welcome to the best years of your life (until your first is born!)!

William

Unfortunately if you want the abc.com/exchange and...

2006-07-24T23:43:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately if you want the abc.com/exchange and def.com/exchange, etc to work, you're going to have a problem with certificates. What I would do is create a virtual web server for each domain within IIS, and use Exchange System Manager to extend the exchange virtual directories to each of these virtual websites, then purchase a certificate (probably from somewhere cheap) for each of those domains and install them on each virtual website.

Then the rest of these instructions should work as for managing users and setting default email addresses etc. There will be a lot of micro managing, but I don't see why you can't get it working.

let me know if you need more help Blizhund, and you can always email me at seanda at microsoft dot com for more specific help to your scenario. Don't be surprised if it takes a little bit for me to reply though.

Cheers!
Sean

Sean,Please forgive if you've addressed this alrea...

2006-07-24T13:23:00.000-07:00

Sean,

Please forgive if you've addressed this already in your post, but I'm new to SBS2k3 and Exchange 2k3 having been a qmail user.

I run multiple domains for family, friends and some local charities and I was able to get the email being received on the SBS Exchange fine using the Recipients instructions (thank you!).

But I want to get OWA working for each domain like this:

abc.com/exchange
def.com/exchange
ghi.com/exchange and etc

Can you please tell me how to do this? I tried setting up virtual directories in the http protocol section (having read this worked) but to no avail.

Can you please advise me on how to get this working. I feel terrible after migrating off of a stable (but limited) qmail/squirrel mail and not able to get these charities OWA logins to work.

Thanks,
William Paris

Hello,Thank you for the article, it's been enlight...

2006-06-16T15:01:00.000-07:00

Hello,
Thank you for the article, it's been enlightining, but I can't get it to work !
I can see the mail coming in on the router log, I can see it being forwarded to port 25 on our server, then it just disappears !.
I should add that we are running a Pop3 connector for one domain and trying to setup the direct method on a new (test domain). Could that be the reason it's not working ?
I have turned all the diags for exchange to maximum, but nothing.
Any Ideas ?

Hey guys,Anyone seen these symtoms??joel@domainA.c...

2006-06-01T15:17:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Anyone seen these symtoms??

joel@domainA.com
joe@domainB.com

Joe has two pop pop account setup for each domain....

He gets 'any' mail sent to joe@eitherdomainAorB in both of the email inboxs.

Any ideas??

SP2 doesn't change anything with respect to multip...

2006-04-27T08:34:00.000-07:00

SP2 doesn't change anything with respect to multiple domains. But up in the blog post, under Micro-Manage! it tells you how to set the different primary email address for each user, when you select this, it will be the primary "FROM" address for that user, there is still no way to change this on the fly that I know of that isn't already posted somewhere on my blog.