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Dear Team,
I need to have a cmdlet for setting automation tasks as per the IT user request to add IPs to the anonymous connector of exchange 2016 servers.
I believe this should work but where I need to add exchange server name as I have 3 exchange server under my DAG.
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "Anonymous connector" -RemoteIPRanges 192.168.1.14 -Confirm:$false
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Removing [openspecs-office-exchange] as it does not apply to this question.
Best regards,
Tom Jebo
Sr Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Open Specifications
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Did you mean you created anonymous connectors for relay on the three exchange servers with the same name? For example, "Anonymous connector".
If it is the case, the actual names of the connectors would be specified by server names.
For example, if the server name is E16A, the connector's name would be "E16A\Anonymous connector".
And the command to add ip addresses to this connector would be:
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "E16A\Anonymous connector" -RemoteIPRanges 192.168.1.14 -Confirm:$false
If you run the following command, it would only modify the settings of the connector on the local server:
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "Anonymous connector" -RemoteIPRanges 192.168.1.14 -Confirm:$false
The other two servers' connector settings would remain unchanged.
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Thanks KaelYao
This is exactly I was looking for. Since command will be done remotely from mid servers, server\connector is the catch, I was looking for.
First I tried on a new connector, it's fine.
But when I tried on an existing connector, it removed all existing IPs in the allowed list and added the one mentioned in the command. Please let me know how to append to the existing list.
Hi,
Sorry, to add additional ip addresses to the connector, you may need to also include the existing ones in the RemoteIPRanges parameter.
Otherwise the existing ones would be overwritten.
While you may also use a script or some other methods to achieve this.
Here is an example on how to do it: Managing Remote IP Ranges of Receive Connectors
(Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)
First you may need to prepare a txt file named RemoteIPRanges.txt for example, which contains the existing list.
You may use the following forms:
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.20-192.168.1.29
192.168.2.0/24
If you would like to add additional ip addresses, you may add them in this txt file.
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.20-192.168.1.29
192.168.2.0/24
192.168.1.14 <--new
Then you may run this command to bulk add ip addresses from this txt file to the receive connectors:
Set-ReceiveConnector -identity "E16A\Anonymous connector" -RemoteIPRanges (Get-Content RemoteIPRanges.txt)
HI
I cannot always maintain a text file as this one is configuring through an orchestrated task.
I tried the command given in the link as below
Get-ReceiveConnector *\Appl-Relay | ForEach { Set-ReceiveConnector -RemoteIPRanges ($_.RemoteIPRanges+ (Get-Content ipranges.txt) | Sort -Unique) }
But this one also removing all existing IPs in the relay allow list.
Hi,
Thanks for the information.
I wonder if other methods would work for you.
Here is an example: How to Add Remote IP Addresses to Existing Receive Connectors
(Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)
It doesn't need you to maintain a txt file as the script would pull the existing ip list and append the new ips to it, then add the ips on the list to the connector.