Finally got the Exchange 2010 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. Yep thats correct, Exchange 2010, will come back for 2007 later on the following weekend. Here is the screenshot of Exchange Management Console.
Click on the image for larger size
If you have worked with previous versions of Exchange, like 2000 or 2003 then you would remember that, out of box, you are able to send emails to outside world, right after installation. But such is not the case in Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2007. It will not send emails to outside world just like that. You will have to manually configure it to be able to talk to outside world. This is done by creating a send connector by either using PowerShell or Exchange Management Console (EMC). Send connector represents logical gateway through which outbound emails are sent. As default no send connectors are created when a Hub Transport Server role or Edge Transport Server role is installed. The instructions on how to create send connector is as follows:
- Open the EMC and navigate to the next location: Organization Configuration > Hub Transport > Send Connectors > New Send Connector.
- Name the Send connector, select Internet under the “Select the intended use for this connector” and click Next:
Click on the image to enlarge
- In order to send emails outside the organization to the Internet, click the Add option and fill * (asterisk) under the Domain field, click OK and Next:
Click on the image to enlarge
- If you want to route the emails to Smart Host, choose Route mail through the following smart hosts, if not – click Next:
Click on the image to enlarge
- You can associate the new send connector to any Exchange 2007 server that holds the Hub Transport roles in your Exchange organization, just by clicking Add in the next screen:
Click on the image to enlarge
- If you have only one Hub Transport or you don’t want to add other server, click Next. Now click New:
Click on the image to enlarge
- In order to finish the connector installation, click Finish:
In the end the wizard does give you the summary of PowerShell commands it ran to complete the configuration. It can be copied by pressing Ctrl-C. You can use it to analyze the commands.
In the end some lessons learnt about Exchange 2010. I will keep posting about my new adventures with Exchange 2010.
[...] Steps needed to create a send connector to do that is explained in a different article named, Configuring Exchange 2010 For Sending Emails To External Domains. This send connector will allow you to send emails to external domains on the internet. Step 2 is [...]