Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Best Practices

• Use the Directory Management Service to automate the creation of AD contacts that correspond to email-enabled content on the SharePoint server, but be cautious about allowing users to auto create groups because this can lead to a major proliferation of Distribution Groups in Active Directory.

• Enabling recipient policies in Exchange to stamp the SharePoint-created contacts with secondary email addresses for the domain in which they will be accepted. If using Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010, also configure an MX record for the SharePoint server.

• Load balance the SMTP incoming email role on multiple SharePoint servers to provide for failover and high availability of this function. Use software network load balancing if a hardware ...