How to use Cloned Configuration for configuring Edge Transport Servers in Exchange server 2010

Exchange Server 2010 provides us a process, called Cloned Configuration, through which we can configure Edge Transport servers by importing configurations from an existing Edge Transport servers. Source server's configuration is exported to an xml file which can then be imported to the target server. Since Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is used to store Edge Transport server configuration, which is not replicated among Edge Transport servers. Cloned Configuration process does not copy the Edge Transport settings to the target server, like certificate settings.

We will perform the below steps to configure the target server with an existing Edge Transport server:-

1. Export source configuration data

2. Validate configuration file and create an answer file, and

3. Import the configuration file on target computer

Note: EMC can't be used to perform below task.

Export source configuration data on source server

/ExportEdgeConfig -CloneConfigData:"C:\CloneData.xml"

Validate configuration file and create an answer file on the target server

./ImportEdgeConfig -CloneConfigData:"C:\CloneData.xml" -IsImport $false -CloneConfigAnswer:"C:\CloneAnswer.xml"

Import configuration file on target server

./ImportEdgeConfig -CloneConfigData:"C:\CloneConfigData.xml" -IsImport $true -CloneConfigAnswer:"C:\CloneConfigAnswer.xml"