Live@Edu - Routing Issues & Shared Address Space

[MattGibson]

Afternoon everyone,

 

I’ve spent all afternoon trying to route mail through a shared address space on our on-site Exchange 2007 server and still no joy!!

 

My aim is to route mail through the on-site exchange to MS Live@Edu cloud but keeping the primary domain address. I have followed this guide: Configure a Shared Address Space with On-Premises Relay

 

The server can route mail via the Send Connector as I have tested this by sending an email to: [email protected]

 

UserA has a mailbox on-site, I want to email the users primary domain ([email protected]) then exchange to route to the cloud. I have read the article on adding the live.domain.com as a proxy address to the user’s profile but the mail just gets delivered to the on-site mailbox……

 

I have to use shared address space because I’m still keeping staff hosted on-site.

 

I know I’m probably missing something; can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Regards

Matt

[PiqueABoo]

but the mail just gets delivered to the on-site mailbox……

 

Perhaps it's all different now but I think the problem is "on-site mailbox".

 

MailUser = Has mail properties but no mailbox.

Mailbox = Has mail properties and a local mailbox.

 

I think UserA needs to be a MailUser which for the purposes of this scenario is effectively a fancy forwarding rule.

 

The trick is getting the forwarding, the [email protected]>[email protected] bit, sorted out via the proxyAddresses property of that MailUser. Don't know if there's a way in the GUI because I've only done shared address in powershell via new-mailuser, set-mailuser etc..

[MattGibson]

Thanks for this, your right I wasn't separating the two! - But it does make sense when you think about it.

 

Yes there is a GUI under 'Mail Contacts' if you want to do a few individually otherwise I'd use powershell to create them in bulk. Just found this article that will help me do this: How to create Exchange Mail Users in bulk using ‘Enable-MailUser’, you idiots « The Angry Technician

 

Regards

Matt

[walker01642]

Matt, I am trying to do the same at our College. Did you ever get this to work? I have been

talking to 4 Microsoft engineers so far but I still can't send out to '[email protected]'

although I can send to '[email protected]'. (I can send from both accounts to my

onsite exchange test account). I have checked using our Exchange 'Message Tracking Center'

tool and it is forwarding the mail to the Microsoft email smart host so I have a feeling that the

problem is at the cloud end. Thanks in advance.

 

Steve Walker

Stockton Sixth Form College.

 

 

 

 

QUOTE=MattGibson;800737]Thanks for this, your right I wasn't separating the two! - But it does make sense when you think about it.

 

Yes there is a GUI under 'Mail Contacts' if you want to do a few individually otherwise I'd use powershell to create them in bulk. Just found this article that will help me do this: How to create Exchange Mail Users in bulk using ‘Enable-MailUser’, you idiots « The Angry Technician

 

Regards

Matt

[MattGibson]

Hi Steve,

 

Yes I did. If you want to PM me your email address I'll be happy to help\compare settings.

 

We configured the following: Mail Delivery to On-Site Exchange > If no mailbox then forward to Live

 

Regards

Matt