ZCS 5.0.10 and CentOS with FDS

[jstlouis]

Hi everyone,

I have another question, with regards to some changes I'm planning on making.

I am currently running ZCS 5.0.10 (recently upgraded from 5.0.5) and things are going great, compared to what it was like running MS Exchange based servers.

ZCS is an Administrator's dream. Version/Server upgrades actually work, without having to deal with strange ldap issues.

Anyhow, I am planning on giving my Microsoft AD Controller the boot, in favour of CentOS running FDS.

I am currently running a (.local) domain internally, but also own my own Registered FQDN.

I do NOT have any "zeroconf" setup.

Would there be any benefit for me to change (during the upgrade) our Domain Name from (.local) to the actual FQDN we own. Or would this even matter.

I currently have the zimbraPublicServiceHostname parameter set to my FQDN, to accomodate for this.

We actually have three domains running on this server, "zimbra.mydomain.local", which I can't figure out why it even got set to the and HOSTNAME and NOT simply "mydomain.local". We also have two other domain and , with being the Primary Domain for Zimbra and all other uses. is an old domain we keep around, as some clients still associate us to this.

I was not the original Administrator, so I'm not sure why they chose to use a (.local) domain. I don't really understand what the purpose of the (.local) domain. I was originally told this was a Windows thing. Is there any benefit of it, or would our primary FQDN be the best method.

I currently do NOT have external authentication working, all users are authenticated via Zimbra's internal method. However once we migrate to FDS, I would like to setup external authentication to that server, if possible, and providing it would NOT cause too much of a hassle.

I do have a backup Zimbra Server running, in which I can perform ALL initial testing on, and once satisfied, I can backup the settings and restore them on our Primary Server.

Any assistance, recommendations, or good articles to review would be very helpful to me in planning this new integration.

And just one other NOTE, I'm planning on also Integrating an Asterisk based VoIP system, just not 100% which one yet. Asterisk itself, SwitchVox or possibly Druid. Any recommendations here would be great as well.


TIA