Exchange 2007 routing

[Mickey Peters]

I have an interesting scenario I wished to have some input.

My AD: Single forest with multiple child domains. Single Exchange Org
with a mixed environment of Exchange 2003 and 2007. Of course, my
email today between these severs travels across the legacy routing
connector.

Due to some connectivity issues, I wish to have emails travel via SMTP
instead. From what I read, this is not possible in mixed environment.

My questions:

1. If I introduce a 2007 replacement server for the existing 2003
server, will I be able to control the routing between the servers to
SMTP only?
2. Will there be any necessity to put the 2nd 2007 server in a
different org? If so, will I then be forced to IIFP to synchronize
addresses for a common GAL ?

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

Mail sent between Exchange 2003 and 2007 servers is sent via SMTP, period.
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[Mickey Peters]

On Dec 15, 1:12 am, "Ed Crowley [MVP]" <cursp...@nospam.net> wrote:
> Mail sent between Exchange 2003 and 2007 servers is sent via SMTP, period.
> --
> Ed Crowley MVP
> "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
> .

Ok - maybe the underlying delivery being used is SMTP, but the
messages were still going into the legacy routing connector for
delivery. What I am trying to do is create a SMTP connector between
the two exchange servers for delivery.

The reasoning; I have both WAN link and Internet link between these
sites. I wish to control Exchange delivery so it goes across the
Internet, rather than across the WAN. Because these two servers are
part of the same org, I dont know if this is possible ?

[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

I suppose you could configure a static route using the ROUTE -P ADD command.

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[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

In addition to the static routing you'd need to create entries in your HOSTS
file to map the server to an Internet address.

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