Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 · Mailbox and High Availability by Redmond, Tony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Mailbox and High Availability Foreword for Exchange 2013 Inside Out books Introduction

Acknowledgments Errata & book support We want to hear from you Stay in touch

1. Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Understanding development priorities The influence of The Service

Exchange Online and Exchange development Transition into the cloud

Exchange 2013 architecture The motivation to upgrade

Evolving from earlier versions of Exchange Waiting for updates Fundamental questions before you upgrade

Building a business case Tighter integration with SharePoint and Lync Greater compliance Information Store improvements Modern public folders Management interfaces

Selecting the right Windows Server for Exchange 2013 Using virtualization Preparing for Exchange 2013

A word about transport The test plan Testing for operational processes Testing for programming and customizations Updating earlier versions of Exchange Deploying earlier versions of Exchange servers alongside Exchange 2013

Exchange 2013 editions Active Directory

Using the strong link between Exchange and Active Directory ADSIEdit

Useful utilities

MFCMAPI Exchange Web Services Editor

Installing Exchange 2013

2. Installing Exchange 2013

Approaching the installation Types of Active Directory deployment that support Exchange Preparing Active Directory for Exchange Creating the Exchange 2013 organization Deploying an Exchange 2013 server

Installing UCMA Running Setup Setup logs Uninstalling Exchange Repairing Exchange Recovering a failed server

Versions, cumulative updates, and service packs

Cumulative updates Version numbers Object versions Reporting licenses

Security groups and accounts Exchange creates Namespace planning

Self-signed certificates Using the Exchange 2013 CAS to handle connections The case for protocol-specific namespaces

Contemplating management

3. The Exchange Management Shell

How Exchange uses Windows PowerShell Using remote Windows PowerShell

Connecting to remote PowerShell Limiting user functionality

EMS basics

Command editing Handling information EMS returns Selective output Using common and user-defined variables Using PowerShell ISE with Exchange Identities Piping OPATH filters Server-side and client-side filters Transcripts Bulk updates Calling scripts Execution policies Profiles

Active Directory for PowerShell

Setting the right scope for objects in a multi-domain forest

Exploring useful EMS examples

Looking for large folders Outputting a CSV file Creating a report in HTML

Verbose PowerShell Controlling access to Exchange

4. Role-based access control

RBAC basics Roles Role groups Scopes Working with RBAC

Creating a new role group Maintaining role group membership

Role group management Role assignment

Using role assignment policy to limit access Creating roles for specific tasks Specific scopes for role groups Database scoping Special roles Unscoped roles Which role groups do I belong to?

Assignment policies Implementing a split permissions model Figuring out RBAC On to management

5. Mailbox management

Seeking perfection halts progress

Starting EAC How EAC accesses Exchange data Changing EAC columns Naming conventions

Managing Recipients

Recipient filtering Exporting EAC information to CSV files Some mysterious mailboxes

The need for mailboxes Naming mailboxes Creating new mailboxes

Completing mailboxes Bulk mailbox creation Creating new room and resource mailboxes Languages Default folders Manipulating mailbox settings Automating mailbox settings What’s in a mailbox? Ready-to-go custom attributes

Mailbox resources provisioning management agent Setting mailbox quotas Removing or disabling mailboxes Reconnecting mailboxes Discovery mailboxes

Creating additional discovery mailboxes

Health mailboxes Setting mailbox permissions

Mailbox delegation Managing Full Access permission Mailbox auto-mapping through Autodiscover Opening another user’s mailbox with Outlook Web App Sending messages on behalf of other users Outlook delegate access

Shared mailboxes Recalling messages Moderated recipients

Moderated groups Processing moderation requests Moderated mailboxes

Mail-enabled contacts Mail users Resource mailboxes

Defining custom properties for resource mailboxes Providing policy direction to the Resource Booking Attendant Processing meeting requests according to policy Equipment mailboxes

Enough about mailboxes

6. More about the Exchange Administration Center

Groups

Managing groups Creating new groups Group owners Group expansion Protected groups Viewing group members Security groups Tracking group usage Allowing users to manage groups

Planning for user-maintained groups Defining a default group location Creating a group naming policy How users maintain groups Restricting users to looking but not touching

Room lists

Dynamic distribution groups

OPATH queries Creating new dynamic distribution groups Validating query results Creating dynamic groups with EMS Using custom filters

A custom filter to address mailboxes in a database

Sharing Certificate management Mail flow and rules Delivery reports

Administrator searches for delivery reports Using EMS to search delivery reports

Running EAC without an Exchange mailbox Setting diagnostics for Exchange servers But what will you manage?

7. Addressing Exchange

Email address policies

Email policy priority Creating a new email address policy Focusing on certain recipients by using filters Creating email address policies with custom filters

Address lists Address book policies

ABPs and groups Creating and implementing an ABP

The Offline Address Book

The OAB and Outlook How Exchange 2013 generates the Offline Address Book

Default OAB operation What’s in the OAB Creating new OAB generation mailboxes

Creating and using customized OABs

Hierarchical address book MailTips and group metrics

Client interaction Configuring MailTips User experience Custom MailTips Multilingual custom MailTips OAB support for MailTips

The display or Details Templates Editor The next step

8. The Exchange 2013 Store

Long live JET! Maximum database size

Sizing mailboxes

Dealing with I/O

Maintaining contiguity The database schema Exchange 2013 I/O improvements

Workers, controller, and memory Managed Availability and the Managed Store Database management

Creating new mailbox databases Updating mailbox databases after installation Backups and permanent removal Removing a database

Transaction logs

Log sets Transaction log checksum Transaction log I/O The question of circular logging Reserved logs

Background maintenance

Database checksums Database defragmentation Database compaction Page zeroing Content maintenance tasks

Corrupt item detection and isolation

Protection against high latency Protection against excessive database or log growth Debugging swelling databases Online repair cmdlets

Rebuilding a database

Using ESEUTIL

Database usage statistics Mailbox assistants And now for something completely different

9. The Database Availability Group

Changes in high availability in Exchange 2013 Database portability

Database Availability Group basics The dependency on Windows clustering

Migrating an Exchange 2010 DAG Active Manager

Automatic database transitions Managed Availability and high availability Best copy and server selection ACLL: Attempt copy last logs

Transaction log replay: The foundation for DAG replication

Transaction log compression Block mode replication Transaction log truncation Incremental resynchronization Seeding a database

Changes in message submission within a DAG Day-to-day DAG management and operations

Building the DAG Pre-staging the Cluster Name Object The role of the FSW DAG task logging Crimson events Managing DAG properties DAG networks Cleaning up before creating database copies Using circular logging inside a DAG Adding new database copies to a DAG Monitoring database copies Reseeding a database copy Adding database copies with EMS Using a lagged database copy

Self-maintained lagging Lagged database copies and Safety Net

Activating a mailbox database copy Rebalancing database copies Performing a server switchover AutoDatabaseMountDial and potential issues moving databases Activation blocks Moving database locations within a DAG Removing database copies Removing servers from a DAG Handling storage failures

Datacenter Activation Coordination Approaching DAG designs

How Exchange 2013 changes the resilience equation Building a DAG with Exchange Standard edition

Server maintenance Stressed servers On to protecting data

10. Moving mailboxes

The Mailbox Replication service Moving mailboxes

Asynchronous moving

The Migration service Mailbox Replication service processing

MRS and system resources Preventing loss of data

Creating and managing migration batches with EAC Using EMS with migration batches Reporting mailbox moves

Getting more information about a move Accessing move report histories

Managing individual mailbox moves

Assigning move priority Moves and mailbox provisioning Handling move request errors Checking and altering move request status Clearing move requests

Migration endpoints Enabling MRSProxy Planning mailbox moves

Suspending mailbox moves

Ensuring high availability MRS configuration file Mailbox import and export

Gaining permission through RBAC to execute mailbox import and export Planning the import of PST data Importing and exporting mailbox data with EAC Importing and exporting mailbox data with EMS

Retrieving information about import jobs Exporting mailbox data Exporting mailbox data with EMS

Alerts Time to comply

11. Compliance management

The joy of legal discovery Archive mailboxes

Enabling archives

Managing archive properties Checking space usage Updating properties of an archive mailbox

The default archive and retention policy Using an archive mailbox Disabling an archive mailbox

Messaging records management

Types of retention tags System tags Designing a retention policy Managed Folder Assistant and retention policies Naming retention tags Creating retention tags Creating a retention policy Applying a retention policy to mailboxes Modifying a retention policy Customizing retention policies for specific mailboxes User interaction with retention policies Setting a retention policy on a folder Removing tags from policies Removing a retention policy Upgrading from managed folders

How the Managed Folder Assistant implements retention policies

Behind the scenes with the MFA Retention date calculation

Preserving information

Putting a mailbox on retention hold Putting a mailbox on litigation hold Searching mailbox content

Search and destroy

In-place holds Creating a new search

Refining a search

Retrieving discovered content Examining search results

Controlling access to discovery mailboxes Exporting discovered content

Resource throttling for searches How in-place holds work Using groups with searches Removing a search Executing searches with EMS What Exchange can search Search syntaxes

The value of the Recoverable Items structure

The function of the Recoverable Items structure Improvements in Exchange 2013 Single-item recovery Knowing what’s in Recoverable Items Managing quotas for Recoverable Items

Auditing administrator actions

The audit mailbox How administrator auditing happens

Auditing mailbox access

Enabling mailboxes for auditing Accessing mailbox audit data

Other compliance features

12. Public folders and site mailboxes

Public folders

New concepts Creating public folder mailboxes How many public folder mailboxes are needed?

Calculating public folder mailbox size

Controlling the root Creating public folders Mail-enabling public folders Moving public folders Redirecting content Removing a public folder Mobile access Organizational forms library

Migration to modern public folders Site mailboxes

How site mailboxes work

Synchronization between Exchange and SharePoint Accessing information about site mailboxes from Outlook Site mailboxes and Office 365

The life cycle of site mailboxes Site mailbox provisioning policy

Summarizing public folders and site mailboxes Moving on

A. About the Author Index About the Author Copyright

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