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How to remove a Domain from Exchange 2007 and transfer Domain to another Server outside my organization

Hello,

I have an Exchange Server 2007 and we recently moved a domain over to an outside Exchange Server. I have moved MX records to new Server and emails work on this domain except when I email from my server. I removed domain from Accepted Domains, but we cannot email this  domain and I do not know what else I can do to troubleshoot.

This is what I did:

To use the Exchange Management Console to remove an accepted domain

 1.
Open the Exchange Management Console. Perform one of the following steps:
a. To remove an accepted domain on a computer that has the Edge Transport server role installed, on that computer, in the console tree, select Edge Transport, and then in the work pane, click the Accepted Domains tab.
 
b. To remove an accepted domain on a computer that has the Hub Transport server role installed, on that computer, in the console tree, expand Organization Configuration, select Hub Transport, and then in the work pane, click the Accepted Domains tab.
 

2.
In the result pane, select the accepted domain that you want to remove, and then in the action pane, click Remove.
 
3.
A dialog box appears with the text, "Are you sure you want to remove 'Accepted Domain'?", where Accepted Domain is the name of the accepted domain that you want to remove. Click Yes.



Thanks,

Jaime Campos
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That ought to do it, though you may need to also restart the MSExchangeTransport service on your HT and Edge servers.

Beyond that, send a test mail and find it in message tracking to see what's happening to it, and at what point the delivery is failing.
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Do you have any settings for this domain setup in DNS?
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Yes, please see pic. I have a Host A record pointing to new subnet 38.9 for existing server.



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Ok now when I go to Recipient Configuration - Mailbox properties - User properties - Email addresses, I noticed that my user still had old domain email address, so I removed and test email was successful. Any idea why and do I have to do each user the same way or is there an easier way?

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nimdatx
You'll want to check your e-mail address policy, and make sure the policy no longer includes the old domain. But changing that doesn't remove anything that's already there, it just stops adding it to new accounts.

I'm sure there's a powershell method to remove any addresses @olddomain.tld, I'll dig around a bit.
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