Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-19
An accepted domain is any SMTP domain for which Microsoft Exchange accepts incoming messages. Accepted domains can be authoritative or relay domains. Accepted domains are configured as global settings for the Exchange organization and on computers that have the Edge Transport server role installed.
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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 transport servers? Check out Managing Transport Servers.
What Do You Want to Do?
Use the EMC to configure the properties of an accepted domain
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Accepted domains" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.
- If you're configuring an accepted domain on a Hub Transport
server, in the console tree, navigate to Organization
Configuration > Hub Transport. On an Edge Transport
server, select Edge Transport in the console tree.
- In the work pane, select the Accepted Domains tab on the
right, and then double-click the accepted domain you want to
configure.
- Use the General
tab to specify how Exchange handles the e-mail messages that it
accepts for this domain:
- Name The name of the accepted domain is
displayed in the first field on the General tab. This is a
display name for the accepted domain and doesn't have to match the
actual SMTP domain.
- Authoritative Domain Select this option
if this domain is used for e-mail addresses of the recipients in
your organization.
- Internal Relay Domain To specify that
e-mail messages are either delivered to recipients in your
organization or relayed to a server outside your Exchange
organization but still under the authority of your company or IT
department, select this option.
- External Relay Domain To specify that
e-mail messages sent to recipients in this domain are relayed to an
e-mail server outside your organization, select this option.
- Name The name of the accepted domain is
displayed in the first field on the General tab. This is a
display name for the accepted domain and doesn't have to match the
actual SMTP domain.
Use the Shell to configure the properties of an accepted domain
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Accepted domains" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.
You use the Set-AcceptedDomain cmdlet to configure the properties of an accepted domain. This example configures the accepted domain for Woodgrove Bank as an authoritative domain.
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Set-AcceptedDomain "Woodgrove Bank" -DomainType Authoritative |
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For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-AcceptedDomain.