We are in the process or retiring our old Exchange 2003 servers as we have previously moved on to Exchange 2010.

I know that 1 step in the process is to delete the routing group connectors to support Exchange 2003 <-> 2010.

Ahead of actually deleting these 2 routing group connectors our management would like to temporarily disable them and ensure there are no issues. The reason for this is that we still have on Exchange 2003 server that must remain for archiving purposes (not mailboxes, SMTP to external or public folders). It uses separately created SMTP connectors but to be sure we want to do as mentioned above and temporarily disable the 2 routing group connectors.

I cannot seem to see any way to actually disable them, only delete. Is there any work around to this to simulate it? If it not can the configurations of these 2 routing group connectors be exported so that they can be recreated exactly as they were?

Appreciate any words of advice. Thank you very much.

• Edited by Barkley Bees 13 hours 59 minutes ago

We are in the process or retiring our old Exchange 2003 servers as we have previously moved on to Exchange 2010.

I know that 1 step in the process is to delete the routing group connectors to support Exchange 2003 <-> 2010.

Ahead of actually deleting these 2 routing group connectors our management would like to temporarily disable them and ensure there are no issues. The reason for this is that we still have on Exchange 2003 server that must remain for archiving purposes (not mailboxes, SMTP to external or public folders). It uses separately created SMTP connectors but to be sure we want to do as mentioned above and temporarily disable the 2 routing group connectors.

I cannot seem to see any way to actually disable them, only delete. Is there any work around to this to simulate it? If it not can the configurations of these 2 routing group connectors be exported so that they can be recreated exactly as they were?

Appreciate any words of advice. Thank you very much.

you could use get-routinggroupconnector |FL from the 2010 server  and output the results to a text file to save and then delete them. You could use the saved results to recreate if necessary

Or maybe set the maxmessagesize to something so small, nothing could pass