March
29th,
2009
Via one of my colleagues I received a pretty nice site with an overview of all ports used for communication between the Exchange 2007 server roles. Below the overview:
Data path | Required ports |
Hub Transport server to Hub Transport server | 25/TCP (Secure Sockets Layer [SSL]), 587/TCP (SSL) |
Hub Transport server to Edge Transport server | 25/TCP (SSL) |
Edge Transport server to Hub Transport server | 25/TCP (SSL) |
Edge Transport server to Edge Transport server | 25/TCP (SSL), 389/TCP/UDP, and 80/TCP (certificate authentication) |
Mailbox server to Hub Transport server via the Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission Service | 135/TCP (RPC) |
Hub Transport to Mailbox server via MAPI | 135/TCP (RPC) |
Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service | 50636/TCP (SSL), 50389/TCP (No SSL) |
Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) directory service on Edge Transport server | 50389/TCP (No SSL) |
Active Directory directory service access from Hub Transport server | 389/TCP/UDP (LDAP), 3268/TCP (LDAP GC), 88/TCP/UDP (Kerberos), 53/TCP/UDP (DNS), 135/TCP (RPC netlogon) |
If you would like to know the authentication method used by the specific roles have a look at the site below.