SMTP Connectors are the mechanism Exchange 2010 uses to transfer mail between the Exchange infrastructure and external systems using the SMTP protocol. These external systems can include other email domains on the Internet, smart hosts such as mail filtering appliances, your ISP’s smart host, your SharePoint farm, etc. They are found on Exchange servers running the Hub Transport and Edge Transport servers, and there are two kinds:
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April 27th, 2012 by admin
Planning an Exchange 2010 infrastructure properly can take weeks, and involve tons of information gathering, utilization forecasting, capacity planning, and differential calculus. Unfortunately, you don’t always have enough time to devote to planning our servers the way they ought to be, so we resort to SWAGs. While not as good as a detailed architectural review, this Exchange 2010 Sizing Cheat Sheet should get you closer to optimum than any SWAG will. Read more…
April 19th, 2012 by admin
Product Review: GFI’s MailArchiver 2011 by J. Peter Bruzzese. Product Homepage: http://www.gfi.com/email-archiving-exchange. The case has been made repeatedly for an archive solution. While Exchange 2010 has built in archive elements, in most cases, obtaining full compliance isn’t easy to come by with the tools provided and so many look to a third-party solution to assist. Some solutions simply sit in-house or in the cloud and they grab every email coming and going to an Exchange organization. The solution will organize it, make it easily discoverable through search tools and allow for users to connect to the archive through a connector for Outlook.
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Email is a great platform for the exchange of messages, which can be plain text, rich text, or in HTML format. It is also a very popular method for transferring files between users, and that is where we, as email admins, can start to run into challenges. Using email as a file transfer mechanism places significant load on our servers. Binary files must be scanned, encoded, transferred, re-encoded, scanned, and stored as a blob in a mail database. A single PowerPoint presentation can easily take up more room than several thousand messages, which can lead to huge burdens on our email servers’ storage infrastructure. As a result, it is only good management to implement Exchange 2010 message size limits.
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March 30th, 2012 by admin
In this post, we will look at ways you can have a user with a corporate email address on your system and setup forwarding of mail to an external recipient. There are two easy ways you can configure things on the server side to automatically forward mail from an Exchange 2010 user to an external account. Before you do any of these, ask yourself if you really should. Many companies have security policies that expressly forbid forwarding corporate mail to external accounts. This is to help prevent information loss or leakage, to ensure that document retention and destruction policies are enforceable, and because they don’t want to have to deal with any discovery issues that might come about from this. Be sure that if you are going to do this, you have management approval.
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