How to Configure Exchange Server 2010 for Shared Address Space

Some organizations have third-party email system with Exchange servers, or situations may arise when you need to enable routing between different Active Directory forests. In both scenarios, user’s domain name suffix remains same. To implement this scenario in your environment, you will have to:- 

• Create a Send Connector to route e-mail to the shared domain, and 
• Create a new Internal Relay domain 

How to Create a Send Connector for the Shared domain 

1. Open theExchange Management Console. 
2. ExpandOrganization Configuration and select Hub Transport. 
3. Click theSend Connectors tab in the work pane and click on New Send Connector from the Action pane. 
4. On theIntroduction page, enter any meaningful name for this connector, and select either of these option:- 

• • Internal for Exchange 2010 organizations, and 
  • Internet for third-party e-mail system 

         Click Next. 

5. On theAddress space page, click Add and enter the domain name to which this connector will send mail, like techpeoples.net or *.techpeoples.net. Click Ok when finished. 
6. On theNetwork settings page, select Route mail through the following smart hosts and click Add. 
7. In theAdd Smart Host box, enter name of IP address of the smart host and click on Next. 
8. On theConfigure smart host authentication settings page, select any authentication method and then click Next. 
9. On theSource Server page, click Add to add a source server. By default, the source server name will be listed as the name of this server where you are currently working on. 

    10. Review the configuration settings and click on New. 

11. ClickFinish on the completion. 

How to create an Internal Relay Domain 

1. Open theExchange Management Console. 
2. ExpandOrganization Configurationand select Hub Transport. 
3. Click theAccepted Domains tab in the work pane and click New Accepted Domain from the Action pane. 
4. Enter any meaningful name and in theAccepted Domain field, enter domain name, like techpeoples.net or *.techpeoples.net to accept all subdomains. 
5. SelectInternal Relay Domain option and click on New. 
6. Click onFinish after completion.