I have recently came to a need to migrate many receive connectors from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013. I helped myself by creating a function, which migrates all connectors from one server to another. Connectors with same settings (bindings, Remote IP ranges and port) are skipped. Function doesn’t automatically grant anonymous relay permission, because I think it is worth setting manually after check of migrated connectors, since almost all environments are messy :).
Don’t forget, that there is major architecture change in Exchange 2013! All external e-mails should flow via FrontEndTransport service! The detailed description with consequences is mentioned here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rischwen/archive/2013/03/13/exchange-2013-mail-flow-demystified-hopefully.aspx
Description:
- Connectors are listed from selected server
- Default connectors are skipped
- If you use server name in FQDN for some reason, please check FQDN manually after transfer
- Connectors are being created with WhatIf parameter to keep admin informed of the changes
- Admin can confirm, that connectors should be created if output is OK, if not, admin can skip
- All tasks are recorded in Transcript (default location)
function Transfer-ReceiveConnectors ($source, $destination, $bindings, $transportrole){
$OldServer = $source
$NewServer = $destination
Write-Host "Transrtipt will be started." -foregroundcolor "yellow"
start-transcript
Write-Host "Getting receive connectors..." -foregroundcolor "yellow"
[array]$ReceiveConnectors = Get-ReceiveConnector -Server $OldServer | Where {$_.Name -notlike "Default $($OldServer)" -and $_.Name -notlike "Client $($OldServer)"}
Write-Host "Testing creation of receive connectors..." -foregroundcolor "yellow"
$ReceiveConnectors | foreach {
Write-Host "Testing: $($_.name)" -ForegroundColor "blue" -BackgroundColor "White"
New-ReceiveConnector -MaxAcknowledgementDelay $_.MaxAcknowledgementDelay -FQDN $_.fqdn -TransportRole $transportrole -Bindings $bindings -Name $_.Name -AuthMechanism $_.AuthMechanism -RemoteIPRanges $_.RemoteIPRanges -Banner $_.Banner -ChunkingEnabled $_.ChunkingEnabled -DefaultDomain $_.DefaultDomain -DeliveryStatusNotificationEnabled $_.DeliveryStatusNotificationEnabled -EightBitMimeEnabled $_.EightBitMimeEnabled -DomainSecureEnabled $_.DomainSecureEnabled -LongAddressesEnabled $_.LongAddressesEnabled -OrarEnabled $_.OrarEnabled -Comment $_.Comment -Enabled $_.Enabled -ConnectionTimeout $_.ConnectionTimeout -ConnectionInactivityTimeout $_.ConnectionInactivityTimeout -MessageRateLimit $_.MessageRateLimit -MaxInboundConnection $_.MaxInboundConnection -MaxInboundConnectionPerSource $_.MaxInboundConnectionPerSource -MaxInboundConnectionPercentagePerSource $_.MaxInboundConnectionPercentagePerSource -MaxHeaderSize $_.MaxHeaderSize -MaxHopCount $_.MaxHopCount -MaxLocalHopCount $_.MaxLocalHopCount -MaxLogonFailures $_.MaxLogonFailures -MaxMessageSize $_.MaxMessageSize -MaxProtocolErrors $_.MaxProtocolErrors -MaxRecipientsPerMessage $_.MaxRecipientsPerMessage -PermissionGroups $_.PermissionGroups -PipeliningEnabled $_.PipeLiningEnabled -ProtocolLoggingLevel $_.ProtocolLoggingLevel -RequireEHLODomain $_.RequireEHLODomain -RequireTLS $_.RequireTLS -EnableAuthGSSAPI $_.EnableAuthGSSAPI -ExtendedProtectionPolicy $_.ExtendedProtectionPolicy -SizeEnabled $_.SizeEnabled -TarpitInterval $_.TarpitInterval -Server $NewServer -WhatIf
}
Write-Host "If output is expected and you want to create connectors, please type Y." -foregroundcolor "yellow"
$Continue = read-host "Please confirm: "
if ($continue -eq "Y"){
$ReceiveConnectors | foreach {
New-ReceiveConnector -MaxAcknowledgementDelay $_.MaxAcknowledgementDelay -FQDN $_.fqdn -TransportRole $transportrole -Bindings $bindings -Name $_.Name -AuthMechanism $_.AuthMechanism -RemoteIPRanges $_.RemoteIPRanges -Banner $_.Banner -ChunkingEnabled $_.ChunkingEnabled -DefaultDomain $_.DefaultDomain -DeliveryStatusNotificationEnabled $_.DeliveryStatusNotificationEnabled -EightBitMimeEnabled $_.EightBitMimeEnabled -DomainSecureEnabled $_.DomainSecureEnabled -LongAddressesEnabled $_.LongAddressesEnabled -OrarEnabled $_.OrarEnabled -Comment $_.Comment -Enabled $_.Enabled -ConnectionTimeout $_.ConnectionTimeout -ConnectionInactivityTimeout $_.ConnectionInactivityTimeout -MessageRateLimit $_.MessageRateLimit -MaxInboundConnection $_.MaxInboundConnection -MaxInboundConnectionPerSource $_.MaxInboundConnectionPerSource -MaxInboundConnectionPercentagePerSource $_.MaxInboundConnectionPercentagePerSource -MaxHeaderSize $_.MaxHeaderSize -MaxHopCount $_.MaxHopCount -MaxLocalHopCount $_.MaxLocalHopCount -MaxLogonFailures $_.MaxLogonFailures -MaxMessageSize $_.MaxMessageSize -MaxProtocolErrors $_.MaxProtocolErrors -MaxRecipientsPerMessage $_.MaxRecipientsPerMessage -PermissionGroups $_.PermissionGroups -PipeliningEnabled $_.PipeLiningEnabled -ProtocolLoggingLevel $_.ProtocolLoggingLevel -RequireEHLODomain $_.RequireEHLODomain -RequireTLS $_.RequireTLS -EnableAuthGSSAPI $_.EnableAuthGSSAPI -ExtendedProtectionPolicy $_.ExtendedProtectionPolicy -SizeEnabled $_.SizeEnabled -TarpitInterval $_.TarpitInterval -Server $NewServer -verbose
}
Write-Host "Completed!" -foregroundcolor "green"
}else {Write-Host "Aborted!" -foregroundcolor "red"}
Stop-TranScript
}
Function can be called by the following cmdlet:
Transfer-ReceiveConnectors <SOURCE_SERVER> <TARGET_SERVER> <BINDINGS> <ExchangeTransportRole>
Examples:
Transfer-ReceiveConnectors EX2010 EX2013 0.0.0.0:25,[::]:25 FrontEndTransport
Transfer-ReceiveConnectors EX2010 EX2013 192.168.1.25:25 HubTransport
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