limws: Install and Configure Microsoft Exchange 2013 (Part 3)

4.0 Mail Flow Configurations

4.1 Accepted Domains

4.1.1 Create an Accepted Domains

1. Open the Exchange admin center via https://mail.limws.com/ecp. Enter your user name and password in Domain\user name and Password, and then click Sign in. Navigate to mail flow > accepted domain and click on the “+” to create a new accepted domain

2. Enter the name and add in the “limws.com” as accepted domain. This is an authoritative domain.

3. Click on “ ” on the “limws.com” accepted domain

4. Make this the default domain

5. The default domain has been changed to “limws.com”

4.2 Email Address Policies

4.2.1 Configure the Default Email Address Policy

1. Open the Exchange admin center via https://mail.limws.com/ecp. Enter your user name and password in Domain\user name and Password, and then click Sign in. Navigate to mail flow > email address policies, select default policy and click on the “

” to edit default policy

2. On the Default Policy Email Address Policy page, click Email Address Format. Click the SMTP address you want to change and then click Edit “

” icon.

3. On the Email address format page in the Email address parameters field, specify the SMTP recipient domain you want to apply to all recipients in the Exchange organization. This domain must match the accepted domain you added in the previous step. For example, @limws.com. Click Save.

4. Click Save.

5. OK to accept the warning

6. In the Default Policy details pane, click Apply.

7. Yes to accept warning

8. Close

9. Default Policy was updated and applied

4.3 Receive Connectors

4.3.1 Create SMTP Relay Receive Connector

1. Open the Exchange admin center via https://mail.limws.com/ecp. Enter your user name and password in Domain\user name and Password, and then click Sign in. Navigate to mail flow > receive connectors and click on the “+” to create a receive connector.

2. Enter the Name for new receive connector. Select the Frontend Transport role and use the custom type, then click next.

3. Next

4. Remove the default IP address range by use “-“. Click the “+” to add the trusted IP of application server or device that requires external SMTP relay access. Finish.

5. Select the connector and click on the edit “ ” icon.

6. Go to security and check the Anonymous users. Click Save to apply the settings.

7. Open the EMS and enter the following cmdlet to add access right for the ability to send to external recipients via this connector.

Get-ReceiveConnector EXCH01\"SMTP Relay EXCH01" | Add-ADPermission -User 'NT AUTHORITY\Anonymous Logon' -ExtendedRights MS-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient

8. Repeat step 1 to step 6 and following by entering the following cmdlet for EXCH02.

Get-ReceiveConnector EXCH02\"SMTP Relay EXCH02" | Add-ADPermission -User 'NT AUTHORITY\Anonymous Logon' -ExtendedRights MS-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient

9. Enter the following cmdlet in EMS to verify.

Get-ReceiveConnector EXCH01\"SMTP Relay EXCH01" | Get-ADPermission | where {$_.User -like '*Anonymous*'} | fl Identity,User,ExtendedRights

Get-ReceiveConnector EXCH02\"SMTP Relay EXCH02" | Get-ADPermission | where {$_.User -like '*Anonymous*'} | fl Identity,User,ExtendedRights

4.4 Send Connectors

4.4.1 Create Send Connectors

1. Open the Exchange admin center via https://mail.limws.com/ecp. Enter your user name and password in Domain\user name and Password, and then click Sign in. Navigate to mail flow > send connectors and click on the “+” to create a send connector.