Managing transport connectors

Transport connectors are used to control the routing of inbound and outbound emails. There are two types of connectors in Exchange: Send and Receive connectors

Send connector

This connector is used for outbound mail flow from Mailbox Servers. They are commonly used to transfer e-mail messages either to a smart host or directly to the recipient e-mail server using DNS.

You can retrieve the settings and configure and create new send connectors using the Get-SendConnector, Set-SendConnector, and New-SendConnector cmdlets.

The following command will display information about the Send connector named Internet:

Get-SendConnector "Internet" | Format-List

The FrontendProxyEnabled parameter of the Set-SendConnector cmdlet is used to route outbound e-mails through the CAS server role. The following example sets the FrontendProxyEnabled parameter to $true on a Send connector, which simplifies the outbound e-mail flow, especially if you are managing a large number of Exchange...