Exchange 2010 Split Delivery same domain

i see what you're trying to do

your MX and A records are pointing to google - they have to be. and unknown accounts go to exchange, meaning staff accounts don't exist at google - which is great

but - exchange won't deliver to the outside world, emails that it is responsible for. even if the student email addresses don't exist on your server, your server still won't try to route them outside. not even if you use a smarthost.

the only option is going to be having a domain name for the students, that is not registered in exchange.

the problem is, exchange knows "i am responsible for mydomain.edu" and anything else you try to do, won't route outbound

Bryon - excellent analysis.

Lets look at it from another perspective.

2 exchange servers, 2 locations.
Connected using a connector.
half mailboxes in ex1
others in ex2.

You create a send connector for mailboxes which are not present in your exchange and forward them to the other ex2 and they will receive it.

google apps uses something similar for email delivery, which Roy probably used to set it up in the first place.
https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=178267

I will post back if I get something on multi-site exchange / same exchange org.

@bryon & busbar
PS: I love it when you take a stab at questions which others wont.

PS Roy - did you check Busbar's article ?
Looks like a similar scenario.

hi sunny, great to see you again - i love it when you appear in questions :)

i didnt realize you did JUST exchange stuff

your link to the google answer is what he's already doing for mail sent from external servers to their domain - it splits fine on the way in... the problem is when sending from his own exchange server to the students on the same domain.

i can't figure out a way to make the exchange server send that email out to google - i understand an exchange connector would be great between two exchange servers, but i don't know if you can do that with google's servers - maybe though.. quite interesting position the author has here. i really enjoy the situations that are not typical and are difficult to carve a solution to

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Hello,
Yes I want over the article today but did not try that YET, I will try this tomorrow and get back to you.
I did not configure the Edge transport is that something you recomend to do?
Now just to make sure I get the article correct, I need to add an additional accepted domain for the same domain name mydomain.edu but for external relay I a assuming, than create send conector for the accepted domain in additional to what I already have, is that correct?
Thank you all Roy

see i'm not sure if that's going to create some kind of infinite loop:

your server: when i get mail for this domain, send it to google
google: when i get mail for this domain, if the user doesn't exist, send it to [your server]
your server: sends it back to google

hence the loop

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no time to check the article, i have no doubt that you would only suggest a working solution :)

@bryon
let me know what you think about my post above.

a) Google will only forward emails out if it *doesnt* find the mailbox in Google Apps, if it's configured as below.
https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=178267

b) Internal Relay in Exchange will route emails when it doesnt find email address
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676395(v=EXCHG.80).aspx

Let me know your thoughts.

My only issue is - I havent tested it..

I mean - I cant test it.

seems like it should work - as long as the internal relay emails are delivered by smtp and not some other transport layer, or tries to use DN's instead of smtp addresses

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sunnyc7: Sorry for the late reply here, I did try your solution and it is working, however it is working with problems.
So I changed the Accepted Domain to Internal Relay, and I created a new Send connector using Smart Host that uses smtp.gmail.com as the smart host however, I need to authnticate therefore I created in my Google App an account for support@mydomain.edu and I am able to send mail from exchange @mydomain.edu to Google @mydomain.edu but when replying to emails it reply to Support@mydomain.edu.
Is there any outgoing smart host service out there?
Thank you All
Roy

ok
Whats happening is - whatever account is being used to authenticate to smarthost - that is being used as a reply to.

Is there a corp account for Google Apps. You can try that.

MXToolbox had a smarthost service. I cant seem to find the link for that.
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/Public/Content/Products/

I remember I spoke to someone called Dave

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sunnyc7: I also tried the administrator account for our domain in Google Apps same results, I contacted Google Support waiting for respond.
Thank you
Roy

ok.
Let us know how that goes.

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Is there a way to create a smarthost in Exchange/IIIS to relay emails to the internet? I tried the IIS but is goes to the badmail folder.

check this
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208281509

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Thank you for the quick reply, what I am looking for it so use IIS as my outgoing relay SMTP server. Do you have an article explaining how to setup IIS to be use as my outgoing SMTP?

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OR maybe there is a way to configure Exchange 2010 to be outgoing server only. I can install another exchange server on another server and use that as outgoing only?

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I was able to resolve the issue:
Here is the solution for the issue above:
Create an accepted Domain as Internal Relay.
Create two send connectors.
Send Connector 1: needs to setup as Internet using a smarthost and set the IP for Google.
Send Connector 2: needs to be setup as internal using DNS MX record.
All email from all locations can be relay.
Thank you for all the help exports.
Roy