HOW TO INSTALL AND CONFIGURE EXCHANGE SERVER 2010 (PART 2)
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STEP 4: ORGANIZATION CONFIGURATION
Organization Configuration >
Mailbox: It contains your configrations with mailboxes, nothing complex.
Hub Transport: Does the job to receive and store mails, Moreover "Remote Domains" is the list of domain where your exchange server will send emails to, and Accepted Domains enlists the domain names which this exchange server is responsible for. Email from other than accepted domain will be rejected. Email address Policy helps in email add related restrictions and limitations. Transport Rules lets you copy / delete messages rules for remote mailboxes. Global Settings allows you to set size limits and related media. Important thing in Hub Transport is Send Connectors, This will do all the sending from exchange, Create new Connector here.
Microsoft Exchange > Microsoft Exchange on Premises > Organization Configuration > Hub Transport > Send Connector > Right Click > New Send Connector
Send Connector helps sending emails to anyone in the world, so lets call this connector "Internet" and set the intended use for this connector to be "Internet" as well.
> Hit Next, and Add Address Space, to be "*" if you want global values.
> Hit Next, Here we will use DNS MX, which is checked by default and is recommended.
> Hit Next, Pick the only server in domain, and
> Hit Next, Click New, let is finish creating connector then.
Lets finish.
STEP 5: SERVER CONFIGURATION
Here, we will setup our exchange, quite same as organization configuration, but a few things we will do here.
MailBOX > Its still the same, deals with mailbox settings.
Client Access > Here we can enable Outlook Web Application, by default its disabled. Simply Enable it if you taste it good. It will ask for domain, keep the same domain, in our case its exchange.codeandcommand.com Leave the basic authentication and hit Enable.
Hub Transport: Again this is where you configure Receiving, and In this goto Default Exchange properties,
Microsoft Exchange > Microsoft Exchange on Premises > Server Configuration > Hub Transport > Default Exchange > Right Click > Properties >Permission Groups
Here if you want to receive emails from anyone. you need to Check mark "Annonymous Users"
Recipient Configuration > This is place we will configure all the users, we already have Administrator account here, You need to create a new mailbox for users.
Click new mailbox, and do small configuration in popup to create mailbox and link it to exchange. That's it for management console,
STEP 6: HTTP REDIRECT
If you open website https://localhost/ you will get a default IIS7 page, this is what we don't want, we want users to reach our exchange if they try from outside. So to do this job. We will goto
IIS Manager > Exchange > Sites > Default Website > HTTP Redirect > Check Mark : Redirect Requests to this destination and add ./owa (this will redirect users to Outlook Web Application)
Make sure you also check mark "Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories). And status code to 301 permanent redirect.
Refresh website now and you will see its redirected to OWA, type username and password and click login, this will bring us to our inbox.
You will not be able to receive emails from outside until you don't configure MX records, Search above for MX Records to view the tutorial how to setup MX records and that's all.
For now we are done here, Although you have found it a long tutorial, but ofcourse it will help you to clear you all concepts on configuration.
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