Fetch remote SMTP servers connecting to Exchange

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When migrating to new version of Exchange Servers you must move your internal SMTP relay endpoints. This can be a challeging tasks as application owners mostly ignore your requests for such changes. 

You can use the information provided in the receive connector log files to identify remote clients (MTAs / MTUs) connecting to the legacy infrastructure. The assumption is that protocol logging is enabled. You can easily active protocol logging across all receive connector fo a single server using the following EMS PowerShell one-liner:

Get-ReceiveConnector -Server EX01 | Set-ReceiveConnector -ProtocolLoggingLevel Verbose

The scripts searches the log files for the connection's EHLO response which containes the remote name or remote IP-address of the system connecting to the receive connector.

You can either search

  • Legacy Exchange Servers (aka Exchange Server 2010)
  • Modern Exchane Servers 
    • Frontend Transport
      or
    • Backend Transport (aka Hub Transport)

For more information read the readme.md file at Github.

Note

You need to adjust the log file path to suit your IT infrastructure. A next releas will contain a more automatic solution.

Examples

# Search legacy Exchange servers SMTP receive log files for the last 4 days and save search results in a single CSV file.\Get-RemoteSmtpServers.ps1 -Servers SRV01,SRV02 -LegacyExchange -AddDays -4 -ToCsv

Version History

  • 1.0, Initial community release 
  • 1.1, Fixed Issue #2

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