Open the exchange management shell and run the following commands

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Run this command to view your current configuration

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Get-RecipientFilterConfig | fl

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Then run this command to turn on recipient filtering

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Set-RecipientFilterConfig -RecipientValidationEnabled:$true

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Turning on this feature will filter recipients who are not in the directory.  This can unlload a ton of processing requests from your Exchange server.