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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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7.11. Examining Your Routing Structure

Problem

You wish to examine your Exchange organization's routing structure: routing groups, connectors, addresses spaces, and limitations.

Solution

  1. Download the WinRoute tool from the Microsoft Download Center:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c5a8afbf-a4da-45e0-adea-6d44eb6c257b&displaylang=en
  2. Extract the WinRoute binary and documentation and install them on your management station.

  3. As a user in the Domain Users group, open the winroute.exe binary from the location in step 2.

  4. Click File New Server Query. Fill in the name of the Exchange server from which you wish to pull routing information.

  5. If you need to use alternate credentials, click Override Credentials and fill in the appropriate credentials. Click OK.

  6. Click OK to connect to the Exchange server and Active Directory. Click Actions Refresh Now to update the displayed information.

Discussion

WinRoute is a freely downloadable Exchange tool that is designed to retrieve and display all information that pertains to message routing. This allows you to troubleshoot message routing issues more easily in organizations with complicated routing topologies. It displays the relevant information on your organization, routing groups, servers, and connectors in a tree view. The included documentation is brief, but covers what you will see in the display and how to use the minimal features of the program.

WinRoute does not have, nor does it need, a lot of functionality or automation. ...

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