Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Databases, Services, & Management · Pocket Consultant by Stanek, William R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Databases, Services, & Management: Pocket Consultant Acknowledgments Introduction

Who is this book for? How is this book organized? Conventions used in this book Other resources Errata and book support We want to hear from you Stay in touch

1. Microsoft Exchange organizations: the essentials

Understanding Exchange Server 2013 organizations

Organizational architecture Front-end transport Back-end transport

Site-based and group-based routing

Routing boundaries IP site links On-premises, online, and cross-premises routing

Understanding data storage in Exchange Server 2013

Working with the Active Directory data store

Using multimaster replication Using global catalogs Using dedicated expansion servers

Working with the Exchange store

Understanding mailbox types and data storage components Mailbox database essentials How are Exchange Server data files used? How is data stored in Exchange database files? Working with Exchange Server message queues

2. Managing data and availability groups

Navigating the Information Store

Basic database options High availability database options Working with Active Manager Understanding managed availability

Creating and managing database availability groups

Pre-staging and preparing for database availability groups Creating database availability groups Managing availability group membership Managing database availability group networks Changing availability group network settings Configuring database availability group properties Removing servers from a database availability group Removing database availability groups

Maintaining database availability groups

Switching over servers and databases Checking continuous replication status Restoring operations after a DAG member failure

3. Exchange database administration

Working with active mailbox databases

Understanding mailbox databases Preparing for automatic reseed Creating mailbox databases Setting the default offline address book Setting mailbox database limits and deletion retention Recovering deleted mailboxes Recovering deleted items from mailbox databases

Working with mailbox database copies

Creating mailbox database copies Setting replay, truncation, and preference values for database copies Suspending and resuming replication Activating lagged database copies Updating mailbox database copies Monitoring database replication status Removing database copies

Managing mailbox databases

Mounting and dismounting databases

Determining the status of databases Dismounting and mounting databases Specifying whether a database should be automatically mounted

Setting the maintenance interval Moving databases Renaming databases Deleting databases

Content indexing

Understanding indexing Managing Exchange Store Search Troubleshooting indexing

4. Configuring transport services

Working with SMTP connectors, sites, and links

Connecting source and destination servers Managing Active Directory site details Managing Active Directory site link details Creating Send connectors Viewing and managing Send connectors Configuring Send connector DNS lookups Setting Send connector limits Creating Receive connectors Viewing and managing Receive connectors Creating Inbound and Outbound connectors with Exchange Online

Configuring transport limits

Setting organizational transport limits Setting connector transport limits Setting server transport limits

Setting Exchange ActiveSync limits Setting Exchange Web Services limits Setting Outlook Web App limits

Completing Transport services setup

Configuring the postmaster address and mailbox Configuring shadow redundancy Configuring Safety Net Enabling anti-spam features Subscribing Edge Transport servers

Creating an Edge subscription Getting Edge subscription details Synchronizing Edge subscriptions Verifying Edge subscriptions Removing Edge subscriptions

5. Managing and maintaining mail flow

Managing message pickup, replay, throttling, and back pressure

Understanding message pickup and replay Configuring and moving the Pickup and Replay directories Changing the message processing speed Configuring messaging limits for the Pickup directory Configuring message throttling Understanding back pressure

Creating and managing accepted domains

Understanding accepted domains, authoritative domains, and relay domains Viewing accepted domains Creating accepted domains Changing the accepted domain type and identifier Removing accepted domains

Creating and managing email address policies

Viewing email address policies Creating email address policies Editing and applying email address policies Removing email address policies

Configuring journal rules

Working with journal rules Setting the NDR journaling mailbox Creating journal rules Managing journal rules

Creating and managing remote domains

Viewing remote domains Creating remote domains Configuring messaging options for remote domains Removing remote domains

Configuring anti-spam and message filtering options

Filtering spam and other unwanted mail by sender Filtering spam and other unwanted email by recipient Filtering connections with IP block lists

Applying IP block lists Setting priority and enabling block list providers Specifying custom error messages to return

Defining block list exceptions and global allow/block lists

Creating or removing connection filter exceptions for email addresses Creating or removing global allowed lists for IP addresses and networks Creating or removing global block lists for IP addresses and networks

Preventing internal servers from being filtered

Configuring transport rules

Understanding transport rules Creating transport rules Managing transport rules

6. Managing client access

Mastering Outlook Web App essentials

Getting started with Outlook Web App Connecting to mailboxes and public folder data over the web Working with Outlook Web App Enabling and disabling web access for users Troubleshooting Outlook Web App

Managing web and mobile access

Using Outlook Web App and Exchange ActiveSync with IIS Working with virtual directories and web applications Enabling and disabling Outlook Web App features Configuring ports, IP addresses, and host names used by websites Enabling SSL on websites Restricting incoming connections and setting time-out values Redirecting users to alternate URLs Controlling access to the HTTP server Throttling Client Access Starting, stopping, and restarting websites Configuring URLs and authentication for the OAB Configuring URLs and authentication for OWA Configuring URLs and authentication for Exchange ActiveSync Configuring URLs and authentication for ECP

Configuring POP3 and IMAP4

Enabling the Exchange POP3 and IMAP4 services Configuring POP3 and IMAP4 bindings Configuring POP3 and IMAP4 authentication Configuring connection settings for POP3 and IMAP4 Configuring message retrieval settings for POP3 and IMAP4

Managing Outlook Anywhere

Working with Outlook Anywhere Configuring URLs and authentication for Outlook Anywhere

7. Managing mobile messaging

Mastering mobile device and wireless access essentials

Using Exchange ActiveSync and Outlook Web App for Devices Managing Exchange ActiveSync and Outlook Web App for Devices Moving from remote mail to Outlook Anywhere

Managing Exchange Server features for mobile devices

Using Autodiscover

Understanding Autodiscover Configuring URLs and authentication for Autodiscover

Using Direct Push Using remote device wipe

Remotely wiping a device Reviewing the remote wipe status

Using password recovery Configuring direct file access Configuring remote file access Using WebReady Document Viewing

Working with mobile devices and device policies

Viewing existing mobile device mailbox policies Creating mobile device mailbox policies Optimizing mobile device mailbox policies Assigning mobile device mailbox policies Removing mobile device mailbox policies

Managing device access

8. Exchange Server 2013 maintenance, monitoring, and queuing

Performing tracking and logging activities in an organization

Using message tracking

Configuring message tracking Searching through the tracking logs Reviewing message tracking logs manually Getting delivery reports

Using protocol logging

Configuring protocol logging Working with protocol logging properties and fields Optimizing protocol logging for HTTP Working with HTTP protocol logs

Using connectivity logging

Configuring connectivity logging Working with connectivity log properties and fields

Monitoring events, services, servers, and resource usage

Viewing events Managing essential services Monitoring Exchange messaging components Using performance alerting

Tracking memory usage Tracking CPU utilization Tracking disk usage

Working with queues

Understanding Exchange queues Accessing the Queue Viewer

Managing queues

Understanding queue summaries and queue states Refreshing the queue view Working with messages in queues Forcing connections to queues Suspending and resuming queues Deleting messages from queues

9. Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2013

Troubleshooting essentials

Tracking server health Tracking user and workload throttling Tracking configuration changes Testing service health, mail flow, replication, and more

Diagnosing and resolving problems

Identifying recovery actions Identifying responders Identifying monitors Identifying probes Viewing error messages for probes Tracing probe errors

Using Log Parser Studio

Getting started with Log Parser Studio Performing queries in Log Parser Studio

A. About the author Index About the Author Copyright

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