How to Specify a Remote Bridgehead Server for a Routing Group Connector

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A remote bridgehead server is a server in a connected routing group that receives all messages destined for that routing group. A remote bridgehead server also receives link state information from the bridgehead servers for the connector.

Before You Begin

The following permissions are required to perform this procedure:

  • Member of the local administrators group and a member of a group that has had the Exchange Administrators role applied at the administrative group level.

Procedure

To specify a remote bridgehead server for a routing group connector

  1. In the Routing Group Connector Properties dialog box, on the Remote Bridgehead tab, click Add, and then select the remote bridgehead server from the list of servers in the routing group to which you are connecting.

    Note

    You must specify a remote bridgehead server. For redundancy, you should specify more than one remote bridgehead server, if possible.

    Remote Bridgehead tab in the Routing Group Connector Properties dialog box

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  2. If you are creating a routing group connector between routing groups that includes Exchange 5.5 servers, in Override connection credentials for Exchange 5.x, click Modify, and then enter the Exchange 5.5 service account credentials for the Exchange 5.5 server to which you are connecting.

  3. Click Apply to create the connector.

  4. When a message appears that asks if you want to create a routing group connector in the remote routing group, click Yes.

    After you click Yes, Exchange creates a routing group connector in the remote routing group. This new routing group connector allows the remote routing group to send messages to the local routing group. When creating this new routing group connector, Exchange does the following:

  5. Exchange designates the bridgehead servers for the remote routing group connector as those servers that are listed on the Remote Bridgehead tab of the local routing group connector.

    Note

    When Exchange designates servers in this way, only those servers that are listed on the Remote Bridgehead tab become bridgehead servers for the new connector. If you would rather have all of the servers in the remote routing group (and not just those that are listed) function as bridgehead servers for the new connector, you must manually select the Any local server can send mail over this connector option on the General tab of the new connector, or add each server individually as a bridgehead server.

  6. Exchange Server designates the remote bridgehead servers for the remote routing group connector as those servers that are listed as bridgehead servers on the General tab of the local routing group.