Carrying on from the article on Installing Exchange 2003, this article will outline the process of readying a brand new exchange organisation for sending and receiving email at your company's existing mail domain. I will assume that you have already installed Exchange 2003, by following the aforementioned article or otherwise.
Firstly, you must configure a Recipient Policy to tell exchange which domains to accept mail for. All other mail will be rejected by the exchange server. To do this, open the Exchange System Manager, or ESM, and navigate to Recipients, then choose Recipient Policies.
In this folder, you should see only a Default Policy. Right click this policy, and choose Properties. On the Email Addresses... tab, click New..., pick SMTP Address and type your mail domain, following the @ sign. E.g.: @maxms.net.
Once the new address is added, click to select it in the list of addresses, and then click Set Primary....
Next, make a new user and allow a few minutes for the policy to apply. You can check the address that a user has been assigned by the system by double clicking their username in the Active Directory Users and Computers console, and choosing the Email Addresses tab.
As a side note, the recipient policy allows you to choose the format for the addresses that your users will be assigned. As it stands, we have chosen the default format in this article, which is simply the username. To specify a custom template, use variables before the @ sign in the address of the recipient policy. The variables are as follows:
- %g - Given Name.
- %s - Surname.
- %3s - First three letters of Surname.
- %d - Displayname.
So, for example, to use a template of forename.surname@yourdomain.com, you would add an address like this: %g.%s@yourdomain.com. Obviously yourdomain.com is replaced with your domain.
Once your users are assigned addresses, you can start sending mail! So get going and send some test messages around the place.
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