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Exchange 2016 Administration Overview

In Exchange 2016, the Client Access Server role is automatically installed as part of the mailbox server role, unlike earlier versions where the Client Access Server and Mailbox Server roles could be installed on separate computers. Mailbox servers contain transport and mailbox database services to route, process, render, and store email data. They also contain client access services to accept client connections for all protocols and route connections to backend services.

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Exchange 2016 Administration Overview

In Exchange 2016, the Client Access Server role is automatically installed as part of the mailbox server role, unlike earlier versions where the Client Access Server and Mailbox Server roles could be installed on separate computers. Mailbox servers contain transport and mailbox database services to route, process, render, and store email data. They also contain client access services to accept client connections for all protocols and route connections to backend services.

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In Exchange 2016, Client Access Server Role is installed automatically as part of mailbox server role unlike earlier

versions that allows installation of Client Access Server & Mailbox Server role on separate computers.

 Mailbox Servers
1. Consists of transport services to route mail.
2. Consists of mailbox databases that process, render, & store data.
3. It contains Client Access Services that accept client connections for all protocols. These frontend
services are used for routing/proxy connections to corresponding backend services on Mailbox
server as clients do not connect directly to backend services.
4. It provides unified messaging (UM) services for voice mail & other telephony features.
5. Exchange Admin Center (EAC) & Exchange Management Shell are used to manage mailbox servers.
 Edge Transport Servers

1. Handle all external flow for the Exchange Organization.


2. These servers are installed in the perimeter network & subscribed to internal Exchange organization.
The EdgeSync synchronization process makes recipient and other configuration information available
to Edge Transport Server as mail enters & leaves the Exchange organization.
3. Antispam & Mail flow rules are provided as mail enters & leaves the Exchange organization.
4. Exchange Management Shell is used to manage Edge Transport servers.

Shared Mailboxes
Shared mailboxes are used when multiple people need access to the same mailbox, such as a company information
or support email address, reception desk, or other function that might be shared by multiple people.

 Your shared mailbox can store up to 50GB of data without you assigning a license to it. After that,
you need to assign a license to the mailbox to store more data
 You can't give people outside your business (such as people with a Gmail account) access to your
shared mailbox. If you want to do this, consider creating a Microsoft 365 Shared mailboxes group

Compare O365 Groups


 Microsoft 365 groups are used for collaboration between users, both inside and outside your company.
 Distribution groups are used for sending notifications to a group of people.
 Security groups are used for granting access to resources such as SharePoint sites.
 Mail-enabled security groups are used for granting access to resources such as SharePoint, and emailing
notifications to those users.
 Shared mailboxes are used when multiple people need access to the same mailbox, such as a company
information or support email address.

Office 365 service family Plans


Business (maximum of 300 users) Microsoft 365 Business Basic | No Office Applications
Microsoft 365 Apps for business | No Office Platform
Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Power BI
Enterprise (unlimited number of users) Office 365 Enterprise E1 | No Office Applications
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Office 365 Enterprise E5 | Power BI
Office 365 Enterprise F3 | No Office Applications
Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 |
Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 |
 Identity and access management
 Endpoint management
 Information protection
 Identity-driven security
What are the levels of Office 365 Administration and what functionality does each level provide or limit?

 Global Admin : has access to all admin features


 Billing Admin : purchases, subscriptions, support tickets, monitors service health
 Password Admin : resets passwords
 Service Admin : manages service requests and monitors service health
 User Management Admin: resets passwords, manages user accounts, user groups, service requests
 Exchange Admin : has administrative access to Exchange Online
 SharePoint Admin : has administrative access to SharePoint Online
 Teams Admin : has administrative access to Teams

What are the three main identity models Azure Active Directory users to manage user authentication
 Cloud Identity
 Synchronized Identity
 Federated Identity

What servers are needed to accommodate single sign on (SSO) aka Federated Identity?
 ADFS 2.0 Proxy Servers (minimum of 2 for redundancy)
 ADFS 2.0 Servers (minimum of 2 for redundancy)
 DirSync Server

Exchange 2016 Prerequisites:


 Microsoft .NET Framework
 Windows Management Framework
 Microsoft Unified Communications
 Microsoft Office Filter Pack
 ADDS and few windows features

What are the steps involved in Exchange Server installation?


 Prerequisites Installation – ASP .Net, IIS, SMTP, NNTP and WWW services Installation
 Forest Preparation
 Domain Preparation
 Exchange Server 2016 Installation

What is DomainPrep?
Domain Prep prepares the Domain partion in Active Directory.
Forest prep should be run only once in forest where Domain Prep should be run in following Servers. The
Forest root Domain

Explain the term DAG (Data Availability Group)?


DAG or Data Availability Group is a framework build is MS Exchange 2016. It is a group of upto 16 mailbox server
that hosts a set of databases and provides automatic database level recovery due to failure of servers of databases.

Explain how message is delivered to the mailbox database in Exchange 2016?


Messages from outside organization enter the transport pipeline through a receive connector and then routed to the
Transport Service on a Mailbox Server and the Mailbox Transport Delivery Service deliver the email to local mailbox
database

Message from inside organization enter the Transport Service on a Mailbox Server in following ways, receive
connector, Pick Up or Replay Directory, Mailbox Transport Service or Agent Submission. Those emails can be relayed
to Front End transport service on Client Access Server using the Transport Service on Mailbox Server and sent
outside

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