Seems like an easy answer but I'm having a real hard time finding it. Is it possible to monitor administrative groups and routing groups in Exhcange 2010, as in Exchange 2003, and if so, how? I need to find out what the routing groups are named. In Exchange 2003 the system manager shows this all really plainly, but Exchange 2010 console doesn't have this interface. Problem is these routing groups are all for Exchange 2010. I tried installing the Exchange snap-in in System Center Operations Manager, but that doesn't seem to have any information either.

There is no such thing as Routing Groups in Exchange 2010. Exchange now uses the AD Sites topology for email routing. In the ESM 2003, you will see all Exch 2010 servers in a weird Admin/routing group. This is only for backward compatibility to Exch 2003. It will not be used going forward. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638103.aspx From: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47632 Key to note in the migration process from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 is that many concepts go away such as the concept of routing groups and administrative groups. Routing groups and Administrative groups were legacy from the days prior to Active Directory where Exchange 5.5 or earlier needed to have configuration settings to allow for the creation of administrators and the routing of mail. These concepts were brought forward in Exchange 2000 and continued with Exchange 2003, however with Exchange 2007, Microsoft did away with these concepts and began leveraging the administrative roles and the Sites and Services routing roles built in to Active Directory. With the elimination of administrative groups and routing groups, a major tip is to make sure your Active Directory is setup and working properly. The requirement to be in Active Directory 2003 native mode is that instead of distribution lists in Exchange, Exchange 2010 uses Universal Groups in Active Directory. Tim Harrington - Catapult Systems - http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com

Ok thanks, this answers it.