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William from Mississauga, Canada, posted a question which came my way via Aardvark.
William wrote:
We have both .ca (Canada) and .com domains. We were going to use the .ca internally with .com public site. I am setting up a *SharePoint* sub-domain and was doing it on the .ca side. However, all of our email addresses are .com. Because of the email issue, would it be easier with SharePoint to setup the sub-domain on the .com side or can I stick with how I have started with .ca?
I replied with the following:
As long as you have considered the DNS and routing issues with this setup, you will be fine. You may have to allow your SMTP gateway in your .ca domain to relay emails to the .com domain when you are setting up incoming (i.e. emailing to a list) and outgoing (e.g. alert, subscriptions and workflow emails) email in SharePoint.
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263462.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287879.aspx
If you are looking at setting up an extranet (a public facing area) with SharePoint then you need to look at web application zones and alternate access mappings within SharePoint to handle your architecture.
William kindly responded:
Thank you for the detailed response. Gotta love getting an answer on the far side of the world not long after posing it. Aardvark has a bit of a weird setup, but I can’t argue with proven results.
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