Hub Transport

Hi,
We're in the process of setting up a new Exch. 2007 server for our College.
At first I was considering of using the Edge Transport server because I
thought it was required. We are signing up with Message Labs to filter our
mail for spam and anti-virus ( incoming and outgoing ). We have also secured
the connection only allowing communication to and from Message Labs to our
e-mail server.

It seems to me that having both the Message Labs filter and the Edge
Transport a bit redundant and more cumbersome to manage. Is this an
acceptable configuration not to use the Edge Transport hub in this case?

Andy
Tue Jul 01 16:31:05 CDT 2008

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:26:01 -0700, Chris
<Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>We're in the process of setting up a new Exch. 2007 server for our College.
>At first I was considering of using the Edge Transport server because I
>thought it was required. We are signing up with Message Labs to filter our
>mail for spam and anti-virus ( incoming and outgoing ). We have also secured
>the connection only allowing communication to and from Message Labs to our
>e-mail server.
>
>It seems to me that having both the Message Labs filter and the Edge
>Transport a bit redundant and more cumbersome to manage. Is this an
>acceptable configuration not to use the Edge Transport hub in this case?


Sure. The Edge role is not required.

John
Tue Jul 01 16:46:25 CDT 2008

Most certainly you can use a third party filter if you choose w/o Edge
Server.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2008
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7B012283-2427-4225-8F98-FDD0095377A2@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> We're in the process of setting up a new Exch. 2007 server for our
> College.
> At first I was considering of using the Edge Transport server because I
> thought it was required. We are signing up with Message Labs to filter our
> mail for spam and anti-virus ( incoming and outgoing ). We have also
> secured
> the connection only allowing communication to and from Message Labs to our
> e-mail server.
>
> It seems to me that having both the Message Labs filter and the Edge
> Transport a bit redundant and more cumbersome to manage. Is this an
> acceptable configuration not to use the Edge Transport hub in this case?
>

Chris
Wed Jul 02 08:51:02 CDT 2008



"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" wrote:

> Most certainly you can use a third party filter if you choose w/o Edge
> Server.
>
> --
> John Oliver, Jr
> MCSE, MCT, CCNA
> Exchange MVP 2008
> Microsoft Certified Partner
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7B012283-2427-4225-8F98-FDD0095377A2@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > We're in the process of setting up a new Exch. 2007 server for our
> > College.
> > At first I was considering of using the Edge Transport server because I
> > thought it was required. We are signing up with Message Labs to filter our
> > mail for spam and anti-virus ( incoming and outgoing ). We have also
> > secured
> > the connection only allowing communication to and from Message Labs to our
> > e-mail server.
> >
> > It seems to me that having both the Message Labs filter and the Edge
> > Transport a bit redundant and more cumbersome to manage. Is this an
> > acceptable configuration not to use the Edge Transport hub in this case?
> >
>
Thank You everyone for the clarification.