GUI method: Exchange Management Console

by Scott Lowe MCSE | Mar 16, 2007 12:00:00 AM

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Takeaway: Use the Accepted Domain wizard to configure your Exchange domain.

Domain acceptance is a part of the overall Exchange organization's Hub Transport configuration. That is, this setting is organizational, not per-server. Here's how to use the Accepted Domain wizard to configure the domain.

From the Exchange Management Console, choose Organization Configuration > Hub Transport. From the Work Pane, choose the Accepted Domains tab, and from the Actions pane, choose New Accepted Domain to start the New Accepted Domain wizard.

During the wizard, you'll fill in some information, such as the ultimate location of the users’ mailboxes that are serviced by this new domain. This is where you'll tell Exchange that this is an Authoritative Domain (mailboxes are located in this Exchange organization), or that the new domain is either internally or externally relayed to other Exchange servers either inside another organizational Active Directory forest, or at an external Exchange organization serviced by the Edge Transport Server role.

Of course, you must also give the new domain a name and also specify the actual name of the domain. As you can see in Figure A, the new domain is created and shows up in the list.

Figure A

The new domain shows up on the list.