
Chapter 9: Confi guring the Edge Transport Server Role
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Preparing the Edge Transport Server
After you install the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server role, if you do not use
edge subscription and EdgeSync to automate your configuration, then you must configure the Send
and Receive Connectors. For complete mail flow, the Edge Transport server must have connectors that
support mail flow to and from the Internet, and to and from the organization. The actual steps to prepare
the Edge Transport server will vary depending on whether edge subscription and EdgeSync will be
performed. It is highly recommended that you use edge subscription and EdgeSync to subscribe the
Edge Transport server to an Active Directory site in the Exchange organization because this automates
and simplifies the configuration on the Edge Transport servers.
In this section, you examine both scenarios for configuring the Edge Transport server to function with an
Exchange Server 2007 organization: first, where no edge subscription and EdgeSync is implemented and
second, where edge subscription and EdgeSync is performed. The tasks that must be completed on the
Edge Transport server based on these scenarios are discussed.
The first scenario is where edge subscription and EdgeSync will not be performed. In this scenario, to
prepare the Edge Transport server, the following tasks are performed: ...