Configure Organization Relationship Properties

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

Organization relationships allow you to securely share availability (free/busy) information with recipients in your Exchange Server 2010 organization and deliver cross-premises e-mail using federated delivery.

Looking for other management tasks related to federated sharing? Check out Managing Federated Sharing.

Prerequisites

Before organization relationships can work, you must first configure Federation. For more information, see Understanding Federation.

What Do You Want to Do?

• Use the EMC to configure organization relationship properties
• Use the Shell to configure organization relationship properties

Use the EMC to configure organization relationship properties

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Organization relationships" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

1. In the console tree, click Organization Configuration
2. In the result pane, click the Organization Relationships tab, and then select the organization relationship you want to configure.
3. In the action pane, under the organizational relationship name, click Properties
4. Use the General tab to view or modify general organizational relationship settings.
   • Name   This unlabeled box displays the name of the organizational relationship. You can modify this name.
   • Modified   This read-only field indicates the date and time when the organization policy was created or modified.
   • Enable this organization relationship   Clear this check box to disable the organization relationship.
   • Enable free/busy information access   Clear this check box to specify that this organization relationship shouldn't be used for retrieving free/busy information from the external organization.
   • Specify free/busy data access level   If you selected the Enable free/busy information access check box, you can select one of the following options from this list to specify what type of free/busy information should be retrieved from the external organization:
     No free/busy access
     Free/busy access with time only
     Free/busy access with time, plus subject and location
   • Specify a security distribution group that indicates what internal users free/busy data is accessible   Select this check box if you want to specify a distribution group to list your users who can have their free/busy information accessed by the external organization. Use the corresponding box to type the SMTP address of a security distribution group within your internal organization, or click Browse to search for the group.
   • Enable Federated Delivery   Select this check box if you want e-mail messages to be sent in encrypted format and delivered as if they come from an internal server with internal addresses resolved, unsolicited e-mail and virus filtering results preserved, and trusted system data preserved. For more information about federated delivery, see Understanding Federation.
   • **Specify the SMTP address of the remote federated delivery mailbox   **If you selected the Enable Federated Delivery check box, use this box to type the SMTP address to use for federated delivery e-mail messages.
5. Use the External Organization tab to view or modify the information required to set up the organization relationship with an external federated organization.
   • Automatically discover configuration information   Click this button to have Exchange locate the configuration information of the external organization by using Autodiscover.
   • Specify a federated domain of the external Exchange organization   If you clicked Automatically discover configuration information, use this box to specify a federated domain of the external organization. (For example, contoso.com.). You can't specify more than one domain. Information about domains federated by the remote organization is published using the Exchange 2010 Autodiscover web service endpoints.
   • Manually enter the configuration information   Click this button if you want to manually provide the configuration information for the external organization.
   • Federated domains of the external Exchange organization   Use this box to type the federated domain names of the external organization. The organization you are establishing an organization relationship with may have more than one federated domains. After you type each domain name, click Add to add it to the list of domains. The organization relationship applies to only the federated domains listed on this tab.
   • Edit   Select a domain name from the list, and then click this button to modify it.
   •    Select a domain name from the list, and then click this button to remove it from the organization relationship.
   • Application URI of the external Exchange organization   Use this box to type the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the external organization's application server (for example, mail.contoso.com). A URI is a string of characters used to identify or name a resource. In this case, the application URI is used when requesting a delegated token for the external organization to retrieve free/busy information.
   • Autodiscover endpoint of the external Exchange organization   Use this box to type the Autodiscover URL of the external organization's Exchange Web Services (for example https://contoso.com/autodiscover.svc/wssecurity). Exchange uses the Autodiscover service to automatically detect the correct Client Access server endpoint.

Use the Shell to configure organization relationship properties

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Organization relationships" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

This example adds the domain name woodgrovebank.co.uk to the organization relationship WoodgroveBank.

$domains = (Get-OrganizationRelationship WoodgroveBank).DomainNames
$domains += 'woodgrovebank.co.uk'
Set-OrganizationRelationship -Identity WoodgroveBank -DomanNames $domains

This example disables the organization relationship WoodgroveBank.

Set-OrganizationRelationship -Identity WoodgroveBank -Enabled $False

This example enables availability (free/busy) information access for the organization relationship WoodgroveBank and sets the access level to Free/busy access with time only.

Set-OrganizationRelationship -Identity WoodgroveBank -FreeBusyAccessEnabled $True -FreeBusyAccessLevel 'AvailabilityOnly'

For detailed parameter and syntax information, see Set-OrganizationRelationship.

For More Information

Understanding Federation

Understanding Federated Sharing