Q: How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they re right? Run Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer tool. Q: Name a few reasons for using 64-bit hardware and OS version for Exchange 2007 2010. 64-bit hardware provides the system architecture that is required to support the increased memory, storage, and enhanced security requirements in a more cost-effective manner. Trends indicate that demands on messaging systems will continue to grow and 64-bit servers provide the system architecture to meet these demands while reducing costs within organizations through server and disk storage consolidations. With a larger addressable space, the Exchange servers can utilize more memory thereby reducing the required input/output per user (IOPS), enabling the use of larger disks as well as low cost storage such as SATA2 drives. Q: What is the OAB? When is it used? An Offline Address Book is a container that stores a collection of Offline Address Lists. Outlook users can choose which offline address lists they want to download. Users who work offline connect to Exchange Server computers and download Offline Address Lists to obtain information about other users in their organization. When an Administrator creates an Offline Address Book, the address list will be converted to a separate set of files and stored in an Exchange Public Folder. Offline Address Books typically contain at least one address list that represents the global address list (GAL). Users who are working offline with their Outlook clients can use this global address while they are on the road. Q: What is PowerShell and why do we care? Windows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration. Built on the.net Framework, Windows PowerShell helps IT professionals and power users control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows. Built-in Windows PowerShell commands, called cmdlets, let you manage the computers in your enterprise from the command line. The Exchange Management Shell, built on Windows PowerShell technology, provides a powerful command-line interface for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 that enables automation of administrative tasks. With the Shell, you can manage every aspect of Exchange. You can enable new e-mail accounts, configure SMTP connectors, store database properties, store transport agents, and more. The Shell can perform every task that can be performed by the Exchange Management Console and the Exchange Web interface in addition to tasks that can't be performed in those interfaces. In fact,
when a task is performed in the console and the Web interface, those interfaces use the Shell to perform the task. Q: - What are the Software requirements to install Exchange Server 2007? Following are the software prerequisites to install Exchange Server 2007 1. Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0 2. IIS - Internet Information Services, a set of Internet-based services for servers using MS Windows 3. WWW - a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the internet 4. MMC 3.0 - MS Management Console hosts administrative tools that you can use to administer networks, computers, services, and other system components 5. Microsoft Windows Power Shell 6. Microsoft ASP.Net Q: - What is Transition in Exchange Server 2007? Transition is the scenario in which you upgrade an existing Exchange organization to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. To perform the transition, you must move data from the existing Exchange servers to new Exchange 2007 servers. For example, when upgrading from an Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server organization to an Exchange 2007 organization, you perform a transition. When transitioning to Exchange 2007, you cannot perform an in-place server upgrade on an existing Exchange server. Instead, you must install a new Exchange 2007 server into the existing organization, and then move data to the new Exchange 2007 server. Q: - What is Migration in Exchange Server 2007? Migration is the scenario in which you upgrade to Exchange 2007 by migrating data from a non- Exchange messaging system to Exchange 2007 or from an existing Exchange organization to a completely new Exchange organization, without retaining any of the Exchange configuration data in the first organization. For example, when merging with another company, you can perform a migration. In this scenario, you move mailboxes and data to the other companyâ s Exchange organization, without retaining any of the configuration data from your existing Exchange organization. Another example is when upgrading from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007, you perform a migration. In this scenario, you must move mailboxes and data to the new Exchange 2007 organization, without retaining any of the data from the Lotus Notes organization.
The migration process includes installing a completely new Exchange 2007 organization, and then migrating mailboxes from the old messaging system to the new Exchange 2007 messaging system, using various tools for migration. What are the Exchange 2007/2010 server roles? Exchange 2007 introduces a new concept to Exchange organizations, the concept of server roles. Similar to how a Windows server can host one or more roles. Server roles allow an administrator to split the functions of an Exchange server and place each role, or a combination of roles, on different servers in the organization. With current Exchange servers you can make a server a Front-End server, or a Back-End server and that is about it. Exchange 2007 introduces five roles to the Exchange organization. Edge Transport - The last hop of outgoing mail and first hop of incoming mail, acting as a "smart host" and usually deployed in a perimeter network, Edge Transport provides mail quarantine and SMTP service to enhance security. One advantage of this role is that is does not require Active Directory access, so it can function with limited access to the corporate network for increased security. Hub Transport - The Hub Transport role handles mails by routing them to next hop: another Hub Transport server, Edge server or mailbox server. Unlike Exchange 2003 Bridgehead that needs Exchange admin defined routing groups, Exchange 2007 Hub Transport role uses AD site info to determine the mail flow. The Hub Transport and Edge Transport servers are very similar and in fact, one can forgo the Edge Transport server and configure the Hub Transport to accept mail from, and send mail to, the Internet. Client Access - The Client Access server role provides the other mailbox server protocol access apart from MAPI. Similar to Exchange 2003 FrontEnd server, it enables user to use an Internet browser (OWA), 3rd party mail client (POP3/IMAP4) and mobile device (ActiveSync) to access their mailbox. Mailbox - The Mailbox server role is responsible for hosting mailbox and public folder data. This role also provides MAPI access for Outlook clients. Note that there is also a variation of this role called Clustered Mailbox role, for use with high-availability MSCS clustering of mailbox data. When Clustered Mailbox role is selected, other server roles cannot be combined on the same physical server. Unified Messaging - This role enables end users to access their mailbox, address book, and calendar using telephone and voice. IP-PBX or VoIP gateway needs to be installed and configured to facilitate much of the functionality of this server role. Q: What are the benefits of using roles, vs. the way Exchange 2000/2003 worked? Server role is a logical concept used to organize Exchange 2007 services and features across one or more servers. While Exchange 2003 provided primitive server roles called BackEnd server and FrontEnd server, Exchange 2007 has more granular divisions. Dividing Exchange features among several server roles has advantages:
More flexible deployment topology: For a small or medium company that has only hundreds of mailboxes and all users are centralized, customer can install all required roles on one physical server. For a large enterprise where tens of thousands of mailboxes span multiple physical locations, customer can choose to deploy each role on a separate server or even multiple servers per role to provide better performance and fault tolerance. Better hardware utilization and scalability: Because each role only installs binaries and runs services for a specific feature set. Unlike older versions of Exchange, configuring a server that has only one or two roles will reduce Memory, CPU and disk space requirements for this server. In addition, roles are scalable so admin can load balance work of one role to multiple servers. Easy to maintain: Upgrading, applying hotfix, or other server changes that could cause server outage can be isolated to one server role. This reduces maintenance down time and end user impact. Admin can also install or uninstall roles on a server as needed. Q: - What are the versions available in Exchange Server 2007? There are two types of Exchange Server 2007 version release 64 bit for production environment 32 bit only for non-production environment Q: - What are the Operating system requirements to install Exchange Server 2007? Exchange Server 2007 can be installed on Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 64-bit or Windows Server 2008 64-bit Q: - What are the Active directory requirements to install Exchange Server 2007? 1. Domain functional level at least windows server 2000 native or higher 2. Schema Master must be run on windows 2003 server with sp1 3. At least one Domain Controller, in each domain with windows server 2003 sp1 4. At least one global catalog server in Active Directory Site which hosts exchange Server 2007 5. 4:1 ratio of Exchange processor to global catalog server processors
Q: - What are the hardware requirements to install Exchange Server 2007? * Processor - 64 bit processor * RAM - 2 GB + 5 MB per Mailbox * Disk Space - At least 1.2 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange * 200 MB of available disk space on the system drive * File Format - NTFS Q: - Is it possible to do in place upgrade from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007? No in-place upgrade on existing Exchange server organization. Install new Exchange Server 2007 server into existing organization, and move data to new server. Q: - What is the status of routing group connector in co existed of Exchange Server 2003 and 2007? Exchange Organization in Exchange Native Mode Exchange Server 2007 routing group (DWBGZMFD01QNBJR) is created only for coexisting with earlier versions of Exchange. Routing Group Connector is required between Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 (created during setup). Q: - Will Front End server talk to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server in an Exchange organization having both exchange 2003 and exchange Server 2007? Exchange Server 2003 Front-end server cannot talk to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Roles Q: - What are the transition options available in Exchange Server 2007 We can make transition in following options
Single forest to single forest you have an existing single forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology, you can transition to a single forest Exchange 2007 organization Single forest to cross forest sif you have an existing single forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology, you can transition to a cross-forest Exchange 2007 topology Cross forest to cross forest If you have an existing cross-forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology with Exchange servers and mailboxes in each forest, you can transition to an Exchange 2007 cross-forest topology. Resource forest to resource forest - Single forest to resource forest - Q: -What are the considerations for Exchange Server 2007 to co exists with Exchange server 2000 and Exchange Server 2003? * Exchange Organization in Exchange Native Mode Exchange Server 2007 routing group (DWBGZMFD01QNBJR) is created only for coexisting with earlier versions of Exchange. * Routing Group Connector is required between Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 (created during setup). * Exchange Server 2003 computers cannot interoperate with the Unified Messaging server role. Exchange 2003 mailboxes cannot be Unified Messagingâ enabled. * Exchange 2003 Front-ends cannot talk to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Roles. * No in-place upgrade on existing Exchange server. Install new Exchange Server 2007 server into existing organization, and move data to new server Q: - Which service should not be installed in Exchange Server 2007 installation? SMTP and NNTP service should not be installed Q: - What to do if exchange Server 5.5 in your organization in order to upgrade to Exchange Server 2007? You cannot upgrade an existing Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 organization to Exchange Server 2007. You must first migrate from the Exchange Server 5.5 organization to an Exchange Server 2003 or an Exchange 2000 Server organization. Then you can transition the Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 organization to Exchange 2007.
Q: - What are the Exchange Server editions available? There are two types of Exchange Server 2007 editions available 1. Standard Edition 2. Enterprise Edition Q: What is Storage Group? Storage Group is a grouping of Mailbox and/or Public Folder Databases, which shares a single backup schedule and a single set of Transaction log files. Storage Groups are managed using their separate server process and the idea behind splitting databases up in Storage Groups is primarily to reduce the overhead that results from multiple sets of transaction log files. Q: - What is the difference between standard and Enterprise Edition? Standard Edition: 5, up to 5; 5 DB per Enterprise Edition: server50 storage groups up to 5 DB each; 50 DB per server Clustering support - SE: No / EE: Yes Q: - What are the Planning Considerations of Mailbox Server Role? The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server role hosts mailbox databases and provides e-mail storage and advanced scheduling services for Microsoft Office Outlook users The Mailbox server role can also host a public folder database, which provides a foundation for workflow, document sharing, and other forms of collaboration We have to perform a planning consideration on * Sizing the database, * Planning for public folder, * Co hosting with other server roles and * Planning for clustered Mailbox server Q: - What are the Planning considerations for Client Access Server Role? The Client Access server role supports the Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere, and Exchange ActiveSync client applications, in addition to the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols. The Client Access server role also hosts several key services, such as the Auto discover service and Exchange Web Services.
In order to have better client access functionality we have to perform a Planning consideration on Exchange Active Sync. Outlook web Access, outlook anywhere, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols and also securing client access Q: - What are the Planning Considerations of Hub Transport Server Role? Hub Transport server role is a required role in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 organization that provides routing within a single organizational network by using the Active Directory directory service site. Hub Transport server role installed handles all mail flow inside the organization, apply transport rules, apply journal rules, and deliver messages to recipients mailboxes We have to perform a Planning Consideration on * Topology for mail flow inside and outside the Exchange organization * Server capacity - determine how to perform performance monitor * Security - includes delegation of administrative roles and verification that IP connections are only enabled from authorized servers * Transport Features - determine the transport features that you will enable at the Hub Transport server and how they will be configured Q: - What are the Planning Considerations for Edge Transport Server Role? Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server role is designed to provide improved antivirus and antispam protection for the Exchange organization. Computers that have the Edge Transport server role also apply policies to messages in transport between organizations. The Edge Transport server role is deployed in an organizationâ s perimeter network. * Edge Transport Should not be included in Active Directory * Should be installed in a Standalone Server * Edge Transport Should not be Part of the domain * ADAM Should be Installed * Pre requisites.net framework, Windows Management Shell, MMC Q: What are the hardware requirements to install Exchange Server 2007? Processor 64 bit processor RAM 2 GB + 5 MB per Mailbox Disk Space At least 1.2 GB on the drive on which you install Exchange
- 200 MB of available disk space on the system drive File Format NTFS Q: What are the transition options available in Exchange Server 2007? We can make transition in following options Single forest to single forest you have an existing single forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology, you can transition to a single forest Exchange 2007 organization Single forest to cross forest If you have an existing single forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology, you can transition to a cross-forest Exchange 2007 topology Cross forest to cross forest If you have an existing cross-forest Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 topology with Exchange servers and mailboxes in each forest, you can transition to an Exchange 2007 cross-forest topology. Q: Will Front End server talk to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server in an Exchange organization having both exchange 2003 and exchange Server 2007? Exchange Server 2003 Front-end server cannot talk to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Roles Q: What's the difference between online and offline defrag? Online: Exchange database online defragmentation occurs automatically as part of the database maintenance process. Online defragmentation detects and removes database objects that are no longer being used Offline: you must defragment the Exchange database offline to reduce the physical size of the Exchange database. Q: What are resource mailboxes? When would you use them? SCR enables a separation of high availability (comprised of service and data availability) and site resilience. Q: What is CCR (Cluster Continuous Replication)? It is a high availability feature of Exchange 2007. It keeps a copy of storage group on another server and sinking the log files both. Also, it removes the need of SAN and low cost. No single point of failure Q: What is LCR (Local Continuous Replication)? The LCR feature makes it possible to create and maintain an exact copy (replica) of databases in a storage group on an Exchange 2007 Server to a second set of disks in the server or to a NAS/SAN Q: What are the Exchange 2007/2010 server roles? Edge Transport, Hub Transport, Client access, Mailbox, unified messaging
Q: What's a Recovery Storage Group? RSGs enable you to recover data from a backup or copy of a database without disturbing user access to current data. Q: How do you use Exmerge in Exchange 2007/2010? Using ExMerge we can import or export PST files. You can recover single mailbox Q: What's a Dial Tone recovery? A dial tone recovery involves creating an empty database on a server to replace a failed database. This empty, or dial tone, database allows users to send and receive e-mail while the failed database is recovered. Q: What built-in tool do you have to allow you to manage Exchange store recoveries? Exmerge / Recovery storage group Q: What is Isinteg? The Information Store Integrity Checker (Isinteg.exe) finds and eliminates errors from the public folder and mailbox databases at the application level. These errors can prevent the information store from starting or prevent users from logging on and from receiving, opening, or deleting mail. Isinteg is not intended for use as a part of routine information store maintenance. It is provided to assist in disaster recovery situations and other referential integrity issues. Q: What is Online Mailbox Move in Exchange 2010? That allows end-users to be online in their email accounts. On completing the move users just needs to reopen their Outlook clients. Q: What is the GAL? The Global Address List or GAL is a University wide directory of Exchange users available through Outlook or OWA. Q: How would you modify the filter properties of one of the default address lists? You could do this by editing the Default Global Address List object in ADSEdit. The attribute that holds the query is the purportedsearch attribute. Q: Where does Edge role store its settings? The Edge Transport server uses Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) to store the required Active Directory data, which is data such as Accepted Domains, Recipients, Safe Senders, Send Connectors and a Hub Transport server list. Q: What's Edge synchronization? The process that the Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service performs to propagate data from Active Directory to the subscribed Edge Transport server. Configuration
data is synchronized one time each hour. Recipient data is synchronized one time every four hours. You can use the Start-EdgeSynchronization cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to start immediate synchronization. Q: How do you enable Edge subscription? Open the Exchange Management Shell on the Edge Transport server, and enter this command: New-EdgeSubscription file "C:\subscription.xml" Answer Y Transfer EdgeSubscription.xml to the Hub Transport server Open Exchange Management Console In the left tree choose Organization Configuration and then Hub Transport In the Actions pane click New Edge Subscription Choose active directory site, if you have multiple sites though, then you should make the Edge Transport server a member of the site that has the fastest (or most reliable) network connectivity to the perimeter network. Use the Browse button to browse for and select the subscription.xml file. Verify that the Automatically Create A Send Connector for this Edge Subscription checkbox is selected, then click the New button to import the XML file and create the Edge Subscription. Q: What's the default replication interval for Edge sync? By default, configuration data is synchronized to AD LDS once every hour, and recipient data is synchronized to AD LDS once every four hours. You can change these intervals using the Set-EdgeSyncService cmdlet. Q: What's Edge subscription? The Edge Subscription is the record of an Edge Transport server that has been subscribed to an Exchange organization. The ADAM directory service on a subscribed Edge Transport server is updated with information from Active Directory by the Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync service. Q: What is Eseutil? It is a tool that you can use to verify, modify, and repair an Exchange database file. When a database is corrupt or damaged, you can restore data from backup or repair it using Eseutil. Q: Where does Exchange store its configuration settings? At configuration partition in the active directory Q: How would you verify that the schema is updated? You can verify that you are ready to start installing Exchange 2007 by looking for the following. The Microsoft Exchange Systems Objects container contains a global group called Exchange 12 Domain Servers
The ESUG has the Exchange 12 Domain Servers global group as a member. The ESUG will have permissions to the Manage Auditing and Security Log settings on all DCs in all domains that the commands were run against Q: What are the new features introduced in Exchange Server 2010 on overview perspective? 1. Protection and compliance 2. Anywhere Access 3. Flexible and reliable Q: What are the supportable clients for Exchange Server 2010? Desktop office 2007 and entourage MAC WEB OWA, OFFICE outlook web access, IE, Firefox and safari Mobile office outlook mobile, windows mobile, and Exchange active sync for third party s Q: What is universal Inbox In OWA? Its provides a solution to have one E-Mail inbox for E Mail, Text messages and Voice messages Can have multiple E-Mail accounts in one OWA window Q: What is federation? Federation is new feature in Exchange server 2010 to share the company users calendars to the partners. A trust relationship to be made to have this feature Q: What is continuous availability feature in Exchange Server 2010? In Exchange Server 2007, we have server to server failover scenarios, and we need to use failover clustering to configure the HA options which is very difficult to manage In Exchange Server 2010, HA modified to Database level which provides quick recoverability in disk and database failures. We can have multiple database copies up to 16 mailbox copies in a database availability group. Admin have replicate mailbox copies up to 16 replicated copies. Capabilities of having CCR and SCR into single platform Q: Continuous availability in user level? If a mailbox move is happening, the users will be stay online and there wont be be any discontinuity in sending or receiving mails Q: What are the storage options supported in Exchange Server 2010? Exchange Server 2010 can support the DAS and Also JBOD disks its because of the HA option depends only on the Database level Q: What is personal archive in Exchange Server 2010 archiving? It is a Secondary mailbox that is configured by the administrator, this appears along with user s primary mailbox in outlook or OWA, and the PST files can be dragged
and dropped to personal archive Mailbox. Mails in Primary mailbox can be moved automatically using Retention policies. Archive quota can be set separately from primary mailbox Q: What are retention policies? And what we can do with retention policies in Exchange Server 2010? Retention policy is an option to move/ delete certain mails by applying rules. We can set retention policies at Item or Folder level. Policies can be applied directly within e-mail. We can set expiration date stamped directly on e-mail. Policies can be applied to all email within a folder. We can configure delete policy to delete the mail after certain period and Archive policies to move certain mails with the certain period to archive mailbox Q: What are the Retention Policies in Exchange Server 2010? 1. Move Policy automatically moves messages to the messages to the archive Mailbox with the options of 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years and never 2 years is default. Move mailbox policies helps keep mailbox under quota. This works like outlook Auto Archive without creating PSTs 2. Delete Policy automatically deletes messages. Delete policies are global. Removes unwanted items 3. Move + Delete policy automatically moves messages to archive after X months and deletes from archive after Y Months. We can set policy priority: Explicit policies over default policies; longer policies apply over shorted policies Q: What is Multi Mailbox Search? This option delegated access to search to HR, compliance, legal manager. Administrator has to provide access permission on to use this feature, this will provide an option to search all mail items ( email, IM contacts, calendar) across primary mailbox, archives. The filtering option in Multi Mailbox search includes sender, receiver, expire policy, message size, send/receive date, cc/bcc, regular expressions, IRM protected Items Q: What are E-Discovery features? Following are the E-Discovery features introduced in Exchange Server 2010 1. Search specific Mailboxes or DLS 2. Export search results to a mailbox or SMTP Address 3. Request email alert when search completes 4. Search results organized by per original hierarchy Lot more will be added in the original release Q: What is Legal Hold and what are the features in Legal Hold? New feature in Exchange Server 2010 to monitor or control a user from deleting a Mail or Mailbox, the features available in Legal Hold are 1. Copy edited and deleted item this option is in Exchange server 2007 to hold the
auto deleted items 2. Set duration for auto delete indefinite or specify time period 3. Auto alert notification sends alerts to users that they are on hold, eliminates manual process 4. Search dumpster use Multi Mailbox search to retrieve deleted/edited items indexed in dumpster folder Q: What is journaling and what are the journaling features in Exchange Server 2010? Journaling is an option to track mails from particular user or from a group of users. The New Features in Journaling for Exchange server 2010 are 1. Transport Journaling ability to journal individual Mailboxes or SMTP address and also this gives a detailed report per To/Cc//Bcc/Alt-Recipient and DL expansion 2. Journal report de duplication reduces duplication of journal reports. Exchange server 2010 creates one report per message Q: What is journal decryption? Journal decryption is a new feature in Exchange Server 2010, if a user sends an encrypted message to recipient and if journaling was enabled for that user, then the Hub transport Server decrypts the message and sends that decrypted message for journaling. The intended recipient will receive the encrypted message Q: What is Set Quota in Archive management? With Mailbox quota Management, we can assign mailbox size for a user. This option can be enabled from the properties of the user account, and the default settings to Mailbox quota is 10 GB Q: What is federated sharing? Federated Sharing allows easy sharing of availability information, calendar, and contacts with recipients in external federated organizations Q: What are the options shared in federated sharing? 1. Free busy information 2. Calendar and contact sharing 3. Sharing policy Q: What are the benefits of federation? Allow users to act on behalf of specific user Specific user identified by E-mail address User not prompted for credentials Reduces explicit trust management No AD trusts, service to cloud accounts to manage Minimizes certificate exchanges Verifies domain ownership
Q: How to establish federated sharing in Exchange Server 2010? 1. Create trust with certificate exchange 2. Prove domain ownership 3. Add domains Q: What is Microsoft Federation Gateway? Exchange Server 2010 uses Microsoft Federation Gateway (MFG), an identity service that runs in the cloud, as the trust broker. Exchange organizations wanting to use Federation establish a Federation Trust with MFG, allowing it to become a federation partner to the Exchange organization. The trust allows users authenticated by Active Directory, known as the identity provider (IP), to be issued Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) delegation tokens by MFG. The delegation tokens allow users from one federated organization to be trusted by another federated organization. With MFG acting as the trust broker, organizations are not required to establish multiple individual trust relationships with other organizations. Users can access external resources using a single sign-on (SSO) experience Q: What is Federation Trust? A Federation Trust is established between an Exchange organization and MFG by exchanging the organization s certificate with MFG, and retrieving MFG s certificate and federation metadata. The certificate is used for encrypting tokens Q: What is Sharing Policy? Sharing policies allow you to control how users in your organization can share calendar and contact information with users outside the organization. To provision recipients to use a particular sharing policy Prerequisites to create a Sharing Policy A federation trust has been created between your Exchange 2010 organization and Microsoft Federation Gateway, and the Federated Organization Identifier is configured. Although you can create a sharing policy for any external domain, recipients from the specified domain can access your users information only if they have a mailbox in an Exchange 2010 organization and their domain is federated Others: (unanswered) What are the Exchange 2007/2010 server roles? What are the benefits of using roles, vs. the way Exchange 2000/2003 worked? What are the Exchange 2003 equivalents of the various Exchange 2007/2010 roles? Name the system prerequisites for installing Exchange 2007/2010 in your existing Active Directory forest. You have an Exchange 5.5 organization and finally decided to move forward and upgrade to Exchange 2007/2010. What's your next obvious step?
You're looking to install Exchange 2007/2010 and Outlook on the same machine. Should you do that? Why? Where does Exchange store its configuration settings? How do you prepare the AD for Exchange 2007/2010? Name 2 methods. What permissions do you need to prepare the AD for Exchange 2007/2010? How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated? In the installation folder root you see setup.com and setup.exe. Which would you use and when? How would you easily install all the Windows Server 2008/R2 roles and features required for Exchange 2007/2010? How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they're right?... What is the latest Exchange 2007 Service Pack? Name a few changes in functionality in that SP. Looking to install Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. What SP version do you need? And for R2? What's a Rollup Update? What's the latest RU for Exchange 2007/2010? How can you easily integrate a RU in the Exchange 2007/2010 installation media? Name a few reasons for using 64-bit hardware and OS version for Exchange 2007/2010. Exchange 2007 came in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Name a couple of reasons for ever needing the 32-bit version.... Wanting to manage Exchange 2007/2010 from a remote computer, name a few of your management options. Name a few changes that were made in Exchange 2003 Management Console (EMC) when compared to Exchange 2003 System Manager (ESM). What's PowerShell and why do we care? Name one major benefit of PowerShell v2 over V1. What are the different Exchange Recipient types? What are resource mailboxes? When would you use them? What are Dynamic Distribution groups? What type of groups would you use when configuring distribution groups in a multiple domain forest? How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes in your organization? How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes on a specific Exchange server? Describe the differences in the permission model between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010.... What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2007 stores work? What's the difference between the Enterprise and Standard editions of Exchange in relation with the number and size of the stores on the server? What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2010 stores work? Name some of the changes in comparison with Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. What's the major difference in store high availability in Exchange 2007? What's the major difference in store high availability in Exchange 2010? What is the GAL? When would you decide to create more than one GAL? How would you modify the filter properties of one of the default address lists? What is the OAB? When is it used? What are the OAB distribution options?
You are at a client's location, and you see no Public Folders on any of the Mailbox servers. How can that be? You don't have any Public Folder, but now you've got a bunch of laptop users that use Outlook 2003. What issues would you see? How would you fix these issues?... In Exchange 2007, what are the minimum requirements for implementing a high availability topology, in relation to the server roles and server numbers? In Exchange 2010, what are the minimum requirements for implementing a high availability topology, in relation to the server roles and server numbers? Describe the concept behind Log Shipping. What's the difference between LCR, CCR and SCR? What's SCC? You've installed Exchange 2007 RTM and are looking to enable SCR but cannot find the option to do so in the EMC or in PS. Why? Describe DAG in Exchange 2010. Considering DAGs in Exchange 2010, why does Microsoft claim that you can run "Raidless"? Would you run "Raidless" even when implementing DAGs in Exchange 2010? Why? Would you run "Backup-less" even when implementing DAGs in Exchange 2010? Why? How do you enable LCR? Why does Microsoft suggest using NTFS mount points when using LCR? What Exchange edition version do you need for LCR? What Windows edition version do you need for LCR? How do you recover from a store corruption when using LCR? Name the procedures you would use.... What are streaming backups? What are VSS backups? How would you backup Exchange 2007/2010 on a Windows Server 2008/R2 machine without using 3rd-party tools? What's a Brick-Level backup? What backup solutions are you familiar with in Exchange 2007/2010? What's a Recovery Storage Group? How do you work with one? Can you use Exmerge in Exchange 2007/2010? Why? How do you export a mailbox content in Exchange 2007/2010? What's a Dial Tone recovery? What built-in tool do you have to allow you to manage Exchange store recoveries? What's the difference between online and offline defrag? In Exchange 2010, is there any change in the way online and offline defrags are used (or should be used)? What is Eseutil? What is Isinteg? Name a few scenarios for using both tools? What are the major considerations for using these tools?... Where does Exchange 2007/2010 get its routing topology from? What protocol is used for the Mailbox to HT transport? How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy? Name all the client connection options in Exchange 2007/2010.
What happened to OMA? Name some of the major changes in OWA in relation to Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003? And in relation to Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007? What's the ECP in Exchange 2010 OWA? A user opens an OWA session from an external computer. Which role does that user connect to? What are the major changes in Outlook 2010 in relation to Exchange 2010, when compared to Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007? What's a mailbox move request in Exchange 2010? What is Online Mailbox Move in Exchange 2010? Describe the issues you're facing when attempting to obtain a digital certificate for Exchange 2007. What's one of the changes that was made to the digital certificate request process in Exchange 2010 in relation to Exchange 2007? What are SAN certificates? Name a few commercial CAs you could use to obtain digital certificates. What is Cached Mode in Outlook 2007/2010? What are the benefits and "issues" when using cached mode? How would you tackle those issues? What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME? What is Outlook Anywhere? Describe the method for enabling Outlook Anywhere. You've just bought a new Internet domain name, and are looking to set up an Exchange organization to receive e-mail for that domain. Name ALL the steps you would need to take in order to successfully be able to work with that domain name. You've installed Exchange 2007/2010 and now you need to be able to send e-mail externally (to the Internet). What do you need to do? What's Accepted Domains? Where in EMC would you look to configure Send Connectors? What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or hardware options. What's a Smart Host? When would you use it? Wanting to configure a Send Connector to the world, what address would you use? What are Receive Connectors? In Exchange 2007/2010, what's the major issue blocking you from receiving e-mail from the world, considering you've enabled the right port(s) on the firewall, and properly configured MX records for your domain(s)? What's the difference between the "Client" and the "Default" Receive Connectors? You're looking to troubleshoot e-mail delivery issues. Name 4 options/tools/logs that are built into Exchange 2007/2010 that can help you in your task.... You're looking to enable Anti-Spam features on Exchange. Which role would you use to do so? Let's say you're wanting to use Anti-Spam features on the HT role. You're looking to enable these features but cannot find them. What do you need to do? Where does Edge role store its settings? You have a need to enable high-availability and load balancing on your Edge role. How do you achieve that? What's Edge synchronization? What's Edge subscription? How do you enable Edge subscription? What's the default replication interval for Edge sync?
What ports do you need to open between the DMZ holding the Edge role and your internal network?