Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-28
You can use the EMC or the Shell to modify the status of an existing Receive connector for a computer that has the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport server role or the Hub Transport server role installed.
In Exchange 2010, you use Receive connectors to accept e-mail messages from remote e-mail systems. A Receive connector must be enabled for it to accept messages. Disable a Receive connector to stop accepting messages by using the configuration represented by that connector. By default, when you create a Receive connector, it's enabled.
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| Don't perform this procedure on an Edge Transport server that has been subscribed to the Exchange organization by using EdgeSync. Instead, make the changes on the Hub Transport server. The changes are then replicated to the Edge Transport server next time EdgeSync synchronization occurs. |
Looking for other management tasks related to connectors? Check out Managing Connectors.
What Do You Want to Do?
Use the EMC to modify the status of a Receive connector
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Receive connectors" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.
- Perform one of the following:
- To modify the status of an existing Receive connector on an
Edge Transport server, in the console tree, select Edge
Transport, and then click the Receive Connectors
tab.
- To modify the status of an existing Receive connector on a Hub
Transport server, in the console tree, expand Organization
Configuration, select Hub Transport, and then click the
Receive Connectors tab.
- To modify the status of an existing Receive connector on an
Edge Transport server, in the console tree, select Edge
Transport, and then click the Receive Connectors
tab.
- Select a Receive connector. If the connector is enabled and you
want to disable it, in the action pane, click Disable. If
the connector is disabled and you want to enable it, in the action
pane, click Enable.
Use the Shell to modify the status of a Receive connector
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Receive connectors" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.
Use the Set-ReceiveConnector cmdlet to modify the status of a Receive connector.
This example disables the Receive connector Contoso.com Receive Connector.
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Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "Contoso.com Receive Connector" -Enabled $false |
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This example enables the same Receive connector.
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Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "Contoso.com Receive Connector" -Enabled $true |
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You may want to temporarily stop all of your Hub Transport servers from accepting messages. To do this, you can disable all Receive connectors in your organization. This example first gets a list of all Receive connectors using the Get-ReceiveConnector cmdlet, and then disables all Receive connectors that are returned:
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Get-ReceiveConnector | Set-ReceiveConnector -Enabled $false |
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For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-ReceiveConnector.