setting up a www domain to get to webmail.

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Fred Smith - 18 Jul 2008 10:55 GMT

Hi,
currently have a 3rd party firm to supply & configure www access to webmail
(OWA).

My problem is that i am being held to ransome with regard to the www domain
they host for us. In short they are wanting us to pay way over the odds for
a domain that is only used by remote users to get to OWA. An www address is
easier to remember than an IP address.

My question is, if i walk away from the existing 3rd party support firm, and
buy a suitable domain name to use, what needs to be done to get web access
to OWA.

I know what the outside IP address is, there is already a NAT in place on
our Firewall / Router. My guess is that i just need to aim something at the
outside address of the Firewall, which is used by the currrent solution.

TIA

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 18 Jul 2008 14:13 GMT

> Hi,
> currently have a 3rd party firm to supply & configure www access to
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> the currrent solution.
> TIA

You can use any registered domain that you own/manage. If someone else is
letting you use a domain that they own/manage, register another one. All you
need to do is set up the domain's DNS to specify your public IP - so, create
an A record such as mail.mydomain.com that points to your public IP.

Of course, you will need to change your e-mail addresses if you are no
longer using the other company's registered domain name.

See http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html for a good overview of
how all this works.

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