Removing Internet Mail Service 1

[Sunny4Ever]

Hi all

I am going to be joining a seperate Exchange site into our organisation. This is a single server site which currently uses the IMS to send and receive mail. I am going to be joining this site using site & directory connectors and then after the directory has been replicated and MTA routing has been recalculated I will change an alias file on the Unix side that will route mail for this site into our existing IMS on another server.

After I have received external mail via this route I will remove the IMS on the newly joined server and test outbound mail.

I really need to minimise the downtime when incoming mail cannot be delivered.

I would really appreciate if anyone could see any pitfalls I may walk into.

Thanks,
-S

 

[wibbe]

Thats no problem, but I recommend you to remove the IMC later. Just remove the adress space and the connector will not be used. Then you can activate it if something fails, or remove it at next planed change-event.

// Wibbe

 

[Sunny4Ever]

Thanks Wibbe

good suggestion about the IMC

-S

 

[tadduci]

just stop the imc service until you are satisfied... disable the service from startup as well.

 

[wibbe]

If you just stop the service, you will still se it in the routing table, but thats works as well.