Exchange Server 2013 Basic Initial Configurations Part 2 – HT

In my previous article I wrote about the basic CAS and MBX Exchange Server 2013 configurations.

Updated: 20-10-2014

So login to the ECP page and now we will start with doing the following:

1. Accepted Domain
2. Email Address Policy
3. Create a Send Connector
4. Create a Receive Connector

Accepted Domain

in the ECP page , go to the “Mail Flow” on the left menu, then go to the “Accepted domains” tap.

• make sure that your SMTP domain is listed and all other domains you might have in your Network
• if not listed it’s easy to add it , just click on the “+” sign.
• fill the information and click “save”

• You can use PowerShell also :

> New-AcceptedDomain –Name “domain” –DomainName “domain.com” –DomainType Authoritative

Email Address Policies

• Now click to “email address policies” tap.
• this policies are used to put the email address “SMTP” to the created users in exchange server.
• by Default there is one default created policy when installing Exchange Server 2013, all we need is to edit it.
• Double click on the “Default Policy”
• on the Default Policy page on the left menu click on “Email address format”

• You can add format by clicking on the “+” sign

• I think it’s pretty clear what you have to do here, it’s just choosing the Domain and the way you want your User’s email look like.
• after finishing click on “Save”.
• Click on “Apply”  on the right hand menu

Create a Send Connector

• Now on go to the “Send Connector tab.
• to be able to send email to the internet “Externally” you need to create an “Internet Send Connector”.
• click on the “+” sign.

• give it a name , and select “internet”.
• click Next

• if you have a “Smart Host” you use that emails goes to it first before being sent to the internet add it to the list, other wise use “MX records…” option
• click Next

• press the “+” button

• add  * to the address space this should make the send connector include all the domains.
• click “Save”
• click next
• now add the server that will be the “Source” by clicking on the “+” sign

• click “ok”

• click “Finish”

• now you have a send connector allows you to send email to the outside word.
• you can use the following PowerShell command

> New-SendConnector –Name “Internet Connector” –AddressSpaces ‘*’ –SourceTransportServers “Server FQDN”–MaxMessageSize 30MB

Create Receive Connector

because the HT server role removed and combined together with CAS the new default Received connector is now named “Default FrontEnd “Server name””

• Click on the “Receive Connectors” Tab.
• Double click on the Default FrontEnd connector

• You can change the Max size
• and then go to “Security” menu in the left side

• Configure the connector authentication methods
• click “Save”

Now you are done with the basic configurations.

I will be writing an article about how to create and request a certificate in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Cheers.