MS Exchange: Configuring Both Systems After Rebooting

After rebooting, follow these steps to configure both the inside and outside servers:

  1. After the systems are usable, on the inside server, click Start>Find>Computer and look up the outside server, in this case, by entering \\outserver. Then go to the outside server and find inserver.

  2. On each server, configure Microsoft Exchange by clicking Start>Programs>Microsoft Exchange Administrator to connect to the other server. Declare a network name, in this case, CISCO on both servers. On each server, declare the site name to be the respective server's domain name. In this case, on the inside server, the site name is pixin. On the outside server, it is pixout.

    Click File>Connect to Server to connect to the other server.

  3. From the Administrator application, configure the site connector. Double-click the site name in the To configure/Connections field and the Connections list appears. Ensure you have a site connector installed. If you followed the defaults when you installed Microsoft Exchange, this should be present. If not, add the site connector for the server's respective domains, just as you did in Step 2. For the cost, use the default. For the Messaging Bridge Head, use the name of that server. For the Target Server, use the name of the other server. You can ignore the Address Space field.

  4. Once both sites are connected, the Administrator application should show the other site available for access. Ensure that at least one username is specified on each server that you can use as a test login.

  5. Then test email from a mail client with the username. The global address list in the address book should list the other server and users on either side. Send the email message.

On the firewall, you should now be able to see syslog messages indicating a MSRPC connection. If you are sending mail from inside out, you should see a MSRPC connection going from the inside server to the outside server on port 135. Then you should see another high port connection being built between the outside server and the inside server. a email should flow through almost immediately.