Real world exchange question

Smallguy

Hi everyone we are in the process of moving our data from one excahnge server ot another...I've followed an article from MSExchange.org

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Migrating-Exchange2000-Exchange-2003-Hardware.html


my question is this we has 3 different email domains in my company the primary is abc.com and the other 2 are dfe.com and zyx.com

when I installed exchange 2003 it automatically created a recipient policy ( I also read http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF010.html and http://www.petri.co.il/configure_exchange_2000_2003_to_receive_email_for_other_domains.htm ) with all 3 domains but it also copied the connetctors we had from 2000....I was told we do not need the connectors anymore with exchange enterprise (we had exchange 2000 standard before)

I want to make sure that this information is accurate before removing the old connectors and moving on.

blargoe

If you're talking about the Active Directory Connectors, they are only needed when you hare interoperating with exchange 5.5 and aren't needed unless you have that scenario going on. that may not be what you're talking about htough.

Smallguy

I was actually talking about SMTP connectors which from a psot I made at msexchange.org and some additional research really shouldn't even be there on my 2k box because they are doing nothing that the default SMTP virtual server shouldn't already be doing. but for some reason is not

I did;nt deploy the exchange 2k box but I assume they had issues and created connectors and thne it worked so now we rely on them

but with 2k3 I've created recipient policies for the additonal email domains we support and the default smtp virtual server should handle all the mail fine.


gotta plan down down time for the roll over and hope I've covered my butt...I'll say we'll be down from Friday at 5pm till 9am Monday so I have plenty of time to iron it all out