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This is the exact message<br />
&quot;The computer account for Exchange server abmail.domain.local does not appear to contain the fully-qualified domain name of Exchange SMTP virtual server 'Default SMTP Virtual Server'. This may cause Kerberos authentication to fail when sending messages between servers. The tool expected to find 'SMTPSVC/mail.domain.com' in the 'servicePrincipalName'.&quot;
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This is the exact message
"The computer account for Exchange server abmail.domain.local does not appear to contain the fully-qualified domain name of Exchange SMTP virtual server 'Default SMTP Virtual Server'. This may cause Kerberos authentication to fail when sending messages between servers. The tool expected to find 'SMTPSVC/mail.domain.com' in the 'servicePrincipalName'."

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sounds like your trying to setup SPF features.<br />
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I just use my DNS address, but I have no SPF or SA..<br />

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sounds like your trying to setup SPF features.

I just use my DNS address, but I have no SPF or SA..


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have not checked in a while, will check in the next couple days, got busy with other things<br />
thanks
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have not checked in a while, will check in the next couple days, got busy with other things
thanks

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So i did a swing migration of exchange 2003 to new hardware. &nbsp;I moved the SMTP service to the new box and ran the exchange best practices analyzer. &nbsp;I am getting this message:Missing FDQN in Service Principal Name.<br />
now on the &quot;old&quot; exchange machine, called mail, in the advanced delivery window where you can set the FQDN, it is set to mail.domain.com. &nbsp;The new server named abmail, in that same window i set the FQDN to be the same as the old machine, is that not correct? &nbsp;
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So i did a swing migration of exchange 2003 to new hardware.  I moved the SMTP service to the new box and ran the exchange best practices analyzer.  I am getting this message:Missing FDQN in Service Principal Name.
now on the "old" exchange machine, called mail, in the advanced delivery window where you can set the FQDN, it is set to mail.domain.com.  The new server named abmail, in that same window i set the FQDN to be the same as the old machine, is that not correct?  

Missing FDQN in Service Principal Name

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.