Creating a DNS Record
According to Microsoft support, our users of Outlook 2007 cannot update the global address list in Exchange 2007 because we do not have a DNS entry internally pointing to our Exchange. I tried to create following their suggestions: 1. Logon DNS server, click Start, click Run, type dnsmgmt.msc, click OK.2. Right click on the "Forward lookup zone", and choose New Zone. 3. Mark the zone as "Primary", and do not check the option "Store the DNS zone in Active Directory". 4. Fill in the zone name as "ourcompany.org". You may choose "none" in dynamic update. Second, create a DNS record for ourcompany.org. 1 After the external DNS zone has been created, right-click the DNS zone on the same DNS management console.2. Click New Host to add an A record. 3. Type the record name mail.ourcompany.org, and specify the internal IP address for the CAS server, click OK to add the record. Once this was set up on the DNS, none of the users could get to our home page http://www.ourcompany.org. Also, we still could not ping (as their recommended test) mail.ourcompany.org after the DNS entries were made and users of Outlook 2007 still could not update the global address list in Exchange 2007 Was this DNS record set up correctly? Is there anything that we could do to allow users to get to our web site? Thanks for any help that you can provide.
September 4th, 2009 4:02am

hi there thanks for posintg in windows server forums, based on your setup you should point your IIS website to an ipaddress in DNS server which i see perfect in your scenario. example.com --> ipaddress for cross verification you could run the below script Sample Script for Setting Up and Configuring DNS dnscmd PRIMARY /zoneadd contoso.COM /primary /file contoso.COM.dns //sets up the overall zone contoso.COM on the primary name server dnscmd SECONDARY /zoneadd contoso.COM /secondary /file contoso.COM.dns //sets up the zone on the secondary dnscmd PRIMARY /recordadd contoso.COM @ A 1.1.1.1 //sets up the record on the primary server for contoso.COM pointing to the IP 10.1.1.1 dnscmd PRIMARY /recordadd contoso.COM www CNAME contoso.COM //sets up a CNAME record for WWW.contoso.com to point to the same IP as // contoso.COM Also you could follow the below link which explains how to configure the dns for your IIShttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/315982make sure that your IIS settings are properly configured ================================================================================================For configuring your exchange server you need to configure mx record for whcih please go through the below link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996996(EXCHG.65).aspxif you have any further question please feel free to post back sainath !analyze
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September 4th, 2009 6:04am

Hello, Thanks for your post here. Form the description, after you create a zone named "ourcompany.org and an A record "mail.ourcompany.org" users cannot get to the home page. Please answer the following questions for a clean understanding of the issue: 1. Is "ourcompany.org" your external (Internet) domain name? Is yes, where is this domain hosted? Internal DNS severs or ISP (third parties) DNS server? If the external domain name is hosted by external DNS server, it will be expected that internal users will not be able to resolve the address such as "www.ourcompany.org" because you have the zone "ourcompany.org" on the internal DNS server and WWW record is absent. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.
September 4th, 2009 1:51pm

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