Book description
With a focus on mailbox and high availability features, this book delivers the ultimate, in-depth reference to IT professionals planning and managing an Exchange Server 2013 deployment. Guided by Tony Redmond, a Microsoft MVP and award-winning author, you will:
Understand major changes to Exchange Server architecture
Get inside insights for planning your upgrade or deployment
Examine the new web-based Exchange admin center (EAC)
Take a deep dive into configuring mailboxes, distribution groups, and contacts; planning and managing the Managed Store; database availability groups; mailbox replication service; compliance, data leakage, and data loss prevention; site mailboxes; modern public folders
Table of contents
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Mailbox and High Availability
- Foreword for Exchange 2013 Inside Out books
- Introduction
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1. Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
- Understanding development priorities
- The influence of The Service
- Exchange 2013 architecture
- The motivation to upgrade
- Selecting the right Windows Server for Exchange 2013
- Using virtualization
- Preparing for Exchange 2013
- Exchange 2013 editions
- Active Directory
- Useful utilities
- Installing Exchange 2013
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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
- Versions, cumulative updates, and service packs
- Security groups and accounts Exchange creates
- Namespace planning
- Contemplating management
- 3. The Exchange Management Shell
- 4. Role-based access control
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5. Mailbox management
- Seeking perfection halts progress
- Managing Recipients
- The need for mailboxes
- Naming mailboxes
- Creating new mailboxes
- Mailbox resources provisioning management agent
- Setting mailbox quotas
- Removing or disabling mailboxes
- Reconnecting mailboxes
- Discovery mailboxes
- Health mailboxes
- Setting mailbox permissions
- Shared mailboxes
- Recalling messages
- Moderated recipients
- Mail-enabled contacts
- Mail users
- Resource mailboxes
- Enough about mailboxes
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6. More about the Exchange Administration Center
- Groups
- Dynamic distribution groups
- Sharing
- Certificate management
- Mail flow and rules
- Delivery reports
- Running EAC without an Exchange mailbox
- Setting diagnostics for Exchange servers
- But what will you manage?
- 7. Addressing Exchange
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8. The Exchange 2013 Store
- Long live JET!
- Maximum database size
- Dealing with I/O
- Workers, controller, and memory
- Managed Availability and the Managed Store
- Database management
- Transaction logs
- Background maintenance
- Corrupt item detection and isolation
- Rebuilding a database
- Database usage statistics
- Mailbox assistants
- And now for something completely different
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9. The Database Availability Group
- Changes in high availability in Exchange 2013
- Database portability
- Migrating an Exchange 2010 DAG
- Active Manager
- Transaction log replay: The foundation for DAG replication
- Changes in message submission within a DAG
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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
- 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
- Server maintenance
- Stressed servers
- On to protecting data
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10. Moving mailboxes
- The Mailbox Replication service
- Moving mailboxes
- The Migration service
- Mailbox Replication service processing
- Creating and managing migration batches with EAC
- Using EMS with migration batches
- Reporting mailbox moves
- Managing individual mailbox moves
- Migration endpoints
- Enabling MRSProxy
- Planning mailbox moves
- Ensuring high availability
- MRS configuration file
- Mailbox import and export
- Alerts
- Time to comply
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11. Compliance management
- The joy of legal discovery
- Archive mailboxes
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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
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Preserving information
- Putting a mailbox on retention hold
- Putting a mailbox on litigation hold
- Searching mailbox content
- In-place holds
- Creating a new search
- Retrieving discovered content
- Examining search results
- 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
- Auditing administrator actions
- Auditing mailbox access
- Other compliance features
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12. Public folders and site mailboxes
- Public folders
- Migration to modern public folders
- Site mailboxes
- Summarizing public folders and site mailboxes
- Moving on
- A. About the Author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Mailbox and High Availability
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735678576
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