After the Exchange Server 2007 installation, everyone used to ask the same question What Next? This topic gives the information on what we have to do to make the Exchange server to send mails outside to Internet, how to allow the external mails to come to internal mailboxes etc…
Following are the Topics discussed in this chapter
To verify all the selected roles are installed successfully use Exchange Management Shell command – Get-ExchangeServer
Event viewer – shows the application log for Exchange Server
Log file checking– shows the progress what happened during the installation
c:ExchangeSetupLogsExchangeSetup.log – shows every task that is performed during the Exchange installation and configuration
c:ExchangeSetupLogsExchangeSetup.msilog – shows the information about the extraction of the Exchange 2007 code from the installer file
To view the log file in Exchange Management shell – Get-SetupLog c:exchangesetuplogsexchangesetup.log
Post Installation Tasks
After reviewing the Exchange Setup installation, following are the additional tasks that are to be done
Note: It’s good to run the EXBPA tool to look at the issues in your configuration
1. If you have Exchange Server 2003 in your organization – you have to create a OAB and if you have only the Exchange Server 2007, a default OAB will be created
2. Client Access Security – default self-signed certificate is configured, instead of having the default secured configuration for Client Access, its good to configure the Client Access server to use a trusted certificate from either a third-party commercial certification authority (CA) or a trusted Windows Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) CA.
3. Configure Accepted Domain in Hub transport Server to send and receive mail for particular domain, this option will be used when internal and external domain name is different
4. Configure a postmaster address
After creating this you have to create a New Mailbox with the name postmaster@domainname.com
My Exchange Setup
Internet –> Sonic Wall ->NAT –> Exchange Server 2007 (HT,CAS, MB)
To send Mails to internet from a Hub Transport Server
You have to create a Send Connector with Smart host or DNS to forward your mails to internet – By default, no Send connectors are created on Hub Transport server – create a New Send Connector with * as the Address space to send mails to any domain
Configure your MX record in a NAT environment
A record – mail.domainname.com, IP Address – Public IP
MX record – domainname.com, choose computer as mail.domainname.com
Configure Receive Connector to receive mails from outside domains – default Receive connector named “Default Server Name” that is created on all Hub Transport servers to listen for incoming connections on port 25 doesn’t accept anonymous connections – modify the default receive connector permissions for “anonymous users”
It’s up to you, to anonymous permission to receive mails from different domain. If anonymous permission is not enabled, emails from external domain will be blocked
Tips:
Following are the Topics discussed in this chapter
- Verify Exchange installation
- Post installation Tasks
- Create a Send connector
- Configure MX record
- Create a Receive connector
To verify all the selected roles are installed successfully use Exchange Management Shell command – Get-ExchangeServer
Event viewer – shows the application log for Exchange Server
Log file checking– shows the progress what happened during the installation
c:ExchangeSetupLogsExchangeSetup.log – shows every task that is performed during the Exchange installation and configuration
c:ExchangeSetupLogsExchangeSetup.msilog – shows the information about the extraction of the Exchange 2007 code from the installer file
To view the log file in Exchange Management shell – Get-SetupLog c:exchangesetuplogsexchangesetup.log
Post Installation Tasks
After reviewing the Exchange Setup installation, following are the additional tasks that are to be done
Note: It’s good to run the EXBPA tool to look at the issues in your configuration
1. If you have Exchange Server 2003 in your organization – you have to create a OAB and if you have only the Exchange Server 2007, a default OAB will be created
2. Client Access Security – default self-signed certificate is configured, instead of having the default secured configuration for Client Access, its good to configure the Client Access server to use a trusted certificate from either a third-party commercial certification authority (CA) or a trusted Windows Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) CA.
3. Configure Accepted Domain in Hub transport Server to send and receive mail for particular domain, this option will be used when internal and external domain name is different
4. Configure a postmaster address
After creating this you have to create a New Mailbox with the name postmaster@domainname.com
My Exchange Setup
Internet –> Sonic Wall ->NAT –> Exchange Server 2007 (HT,CAS, MB)
To send Mails to internet from a Hub Transport Server
You have to create a Send Connector with Smart host or DNS to forward your mails to internet – By default, no Send connectors are created on Hub Transport server – create a New Send Connector with * as the Address space to send mails to any domain
Configure your MX record in a NAT environment
A record – mail.domainname.com, IP Address – Public IP
MX record – domainname.com, choose computer as mail.domainname.com
Configure Receive Connector to receive mails from outside domains – default Receive connector named “Default Server Name” that is created on all Hub Transport servers to listen for incoming connections on port 25 doesn’t accept anonymous connections – modify the default receive connector permissions for “anonymous users”
It’s up to you, to anonymous permission to receive mails from different domain. If anonymous permission is not enabled, emails from external domain will be blocked
Tips:
- Instead of POP3/IMAP4 configuration, configure Exchange Server 2007 to use (Outlook Anywhere) RPC over HTTP to remote clients
- By default POP3/IMAP4 options are disabled in Exchange Server 2007, you have to start the service to enable this option
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