It's not that I don't want to create a send connector. I was just taking a phased approach cause we were already redirecting the OWA via the FW and didn't want to make all the changes at once. Once we tested the redirection of the OWA the send connector was coming right after it. It was only to hold over for like a day.
When you say depending on the config.. If you installled the Interop by defaul and didn't touch anything.. shouldn't it route internet bound mail through it and out the SMTP connector? _________________ John Bowles 301.473.2260 ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: E2K7/E2K3 Coexistence Question Depends on the configuration of the Interop RGC. Why on earth wouldn't you want to create a Send-Connector? ________________________________ From: John Bowles [john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: E2K7/E2K3 Coexistence Question All- Scenario: (2007) 2 CAS/HUB Transport Servers, 1 MBX server| (2003) 2 FE Servers, 1 BE Server(BH Server) (We left the SMTP connectors still up and running on E2K3 to handle internet mail transmission. So we haven't installed a Send Connector on E2K7 yet) I had a customer that was migrating from E2K3 to E2K7. We established the first Hub Transport server into the Exchange org and identified the BH server for E2K3. After we did that we created a mailbox to test mail routing. We could send and receive email from 2007 to 2003 and vice versa internally. E2K3 mailboxes could send and recieve internet email. E2K7 test mailbox could receive internet email but couldn't send email outbound to the internet. It would just queue up at that HUB server and wouldn't cross over the RGC connector. Now correct me if I'm wrong here, but if I had a test mailbox on E2K7 and our SMTP connector was located on an E2K3 server.. shouldn't email bound for the internet pass thru the RGC connector between 2K7 and 2K3? TIA, _________________ John Bowles
