Create A Routing Group Connector Between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010
IT Problem
I recentley had to add an exchange 2010 server into a 2003 organization. As part of the installation a routing group connector is created but for some reason it was not created correctly created. Here is how to create a routing group connector in powershell from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010
IT Solution
So first run the exchange 2010 power shell . Once you are in the exchange powershell copy and paste the command below making changes the the server names.
New-RoutingGroupConnector -Name "RGC 2003-2010" -SourceTransportServers "exchange2010server.yourdomain.local" -TargetTransportServers "exchange2003server.yourdomain.local" -Cost 100 -Bidirectional $true
Ok so replace exchange2010server.yourdomain.local with the FQDN of your exchange2010 server and also replace exchange2003server.yourdomain.local with the FQDN of your exchange 2003 server.
Then on the 2003 server, restart the smtp service and then on the exchange 2010 server restart your exchange transport service.
The connector is bi-directional so mail will now flow both ways.
To view the routing group connector enter
Get-RoutingGroupConnector
For more powershell commands view our powershell commands guide
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DC
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Just to be clear, there is no “smtp service” on 2003. Do you mean the Information Store service??
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Allen White
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Hi DC, there is it is a standard service installed with IIS on server 2003, The best way to restart all the services would be to restart the System Attendant Service on the 2003 box and the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology Service on the 2010 box
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[...] into an exchange 2003 organization everything was going well , users where migrating fine. I had created the routing group connector between Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2003. I thought all was well, mail was flowing out of the company fine, and fine flowing back in. As [...]
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