Exchange 2013

Exchange Server Role Architecture in Exchange Server 2013

• Server roles in Exchange Server 2013:• Client Access Server • Mailbox Server

• Client Access Server provides:• Client authentication• Redirection and proxy services• Support for client protocols (HTTP,POP,IMAP,SMTP)

• Mailbox Server provides:• Mailbox and public-folder database• Transport services• Unified Messaging

• Client connectivity is only established using RPC over HTTPS

Configuration that uses multipledatabases per volume

Exchange Server 2013 Hybrid Deployment with Office 365

• Hybrid Exchange Deployment provides following features:• Mail routing with a shared domain namespace• Unified global address list• Free/busy and calendar sharing • Centralized control of mail flow• A single Outlook Web App URL • Ability to move existing mailboxes to the cloud• Centralized mailbox management • Cloud-based message archiving

• Additional components needed for hybrid deployment:• Microsoft Federation Gateway• Active Directory synchronization

Managing Exchange Server 2013

Methods for Exchange Server 2013 management:

• Exchange Administration Center• Outlook Web App options• Exchange Management Shell

What Is Exchange Server Administration Center?

Managing User Mailbox Properties with Outlook Web App

•Users can manage the following features by using Outlook Web App:• Outlook Web App settings • Manage inbox rules • Message tracking • Manage site mailboxes and text messaging• Manage mobile devices • Group memberships • Recover deleted messages• Block and allow lists• Change their password• Manage apps

How Site Mailboxes work

What Is Exchange Management Shell?

• Exchange Management Shell is a command-line interface for administering Exchange Server 2013

• Exchange Management Shell includes the following features:• Provides more than several hundreds cmdlets for Exchange

Server 2013 administration• Offers an extensible scripting engine• Applies RBAC permissions

The Mailbox Server Role in Exchange 2013

• In Exchange Server 2013, the Mailbox Server role provides:• Hosting for mailbox databases• Hosting for public folders• Transport and message routing services:

• Hub Transport service• Mailbox Transport services

• Unified Messaging service• High-availability services

• Mailbox Server role features enhacements such as:• Improved transaction logs for DAGs• Enhanced site resiliency• Improved Smart Store

How the Mailbox Server Role Interacts with Clients and the Client Access Server

• The Hub Transport service on the Mailbox server communicates with the Transport service on the Client Access server

Types of Exchange Server Recipients

Exchange Server recipients include:• User mailboxes• Mail contacts• Mail users• Resource mailboxes• Shared mailboxes• Mail-enabled security and distribution groups• Dynamic distribution groups• Linked mailboxes• Remote mailboxes• Site mailboxes

Managing Mailboxes

What Are Site Mailboxes?

Site Mailbox

Management

Provisioning Lifecycle

Shared Storage

SharePoint SiteExchange Site Mailbox

SharePoint

Clients

Outlook

Membership

MembersOwners

Compliance

MembersOwners

What Is a Shared Mailbox?

•Shared mailboxes are used to provide multiple users access to a common mailbox

•Shared mailboxes can be created in a single step in the EAC or Exchange Management Shell

•Users can be granted Full Access and Send As permissions

Implementing Self-Service Distribution Group Management

•To enable group self-service:• Assign non-Exchange administrators as distribution group owners• Enable open distribution group memberships• Enable users to create and manage their own distribution groups

•Use group naming policies to manage the distribution group names

Using Public Folders in Exchange Server 2013

• In Exchange Server 2013:

• Public folders are stored in public folder mailboxes

• Public folder mailboxes are stored in regular mailbox databases• Can be placed in mailbox databases that are in a DAG

• Public folder content can be spread across multiple public folder mailboxes

• Cannot be accessed through OWA

• The primary public folder mailbox contains the only writeable copy of the public folder hierarchy

How Does a Client Access Server Work?

Firewall

IIS

HTTP Proxy

POP,IMAP

SMTP UM

IISPOP,IMAP

Trans-port

UM

RPS RPCOWA,EAS,EWS,ECP,OAB

RpcProxy

MDB MailQ

ClientAccess

Mailbox

IIS

Redirect

HTTP

SIP + RTP

Outlook Web App

Outlook

EASEAC

PowerShell

POP, IMAP

POP/IMAP

SMTP

SMTP

SIP

What Is Outlook Web App Light?

•Outlook Web App Light is an application within Outlook Web App that works with older browsers•Outlook Web App Light provides:• Connectivity to user mailbox from mobile browsers• Subset of functionalities of Outlook Web App• Secure authentication

Connecting Non-Outlook Clients to the Client Access Server

•Non-Outlook clients can connect to Exchange Server by using:• POP3 protocol• IMAP4 protocol

•Consider using Outlook WebApp as an alternative for a locally installed email client•Consider using the Windows 8 built-in Mail application that connects to Exchange by using ActiveSync

Integrated Applications in Outlook Web App

• Integrated Apps in OWA enhance user experience by suggesting tasks based on messages’ content

•Preinstalled applications are:• Bing• Action Items• Suggested Apointments• Unsubscribe

•You can add apps from the Office Store, a URL or from a file

Bing Map mail app activated for a message in Outlook

Links for sample Outlook Apps

Mail apps for Outlook: Display Bing maps in Outlook 2013 Mail apps for Outlook: Create a mail app to view YouTube videos Mail apps for Outlook: Create a mail app for VoIP dialing

What Is Office Web Apps Server Integration?

•Office Web Apps Server integration provides enhanced user experience when handling office-based email attachments•Office Web Apps are used to render documents•Users can modify documents online•Office Web Apps integrate in OWA interface•Usage is available to users of Exchange Online or Exchange installed on-premises•Office Web Apps server is required

Using Outlook Web App in Offline Mode

•Offline Outlook Web App provides users with the ability to access data in their mailboxes even when not connected to Exchange Server•Offline Outlook Web App:• Works only with selected browsers• Caches part of the mailbox content• Allows users to perform selected tasks• Is enabled on per-computer basis• Can be controller by using OWA policies

Supported Features in Exchange ActiveSync

•Some of the features implemented in Exchange Server 2013 ActiveSync are:• Support for HTML formatted messages• Conversation grouping of email messages• Ability to synchronize or not sync conversation• Support for fast message retrieval• Enhanced Exchange Search• Autodiscover for over-the-air provisioning• Direct Push• Support for availability information • GAL photos• Information Rights Management

Deploying Exchange Server 2013 for Internet Access

ClientFirewall

Firewall or

Reverse Proxy

DomainControllerMailbox Server

Edge TransportServer or SMTP Gateway

Client AccessServer

Protocol Unsecure Port

TLS/SSL Port

HTTP 80 443

POP3 110 995

IMAP4 143 993

SMTP 25 25

SMTP client submission

587 587

Message Transport Services

•Message Transport Services:• Front End Transport service

• Runs on the Client Access server role• Performs SMTP proxying

• Hub Transport service• Runs on the Mailbox Server role• Routes messages between the Front End Transport

Service and the Mailbox Transport Service

• Mailbox Transport service• Runs on the Mailbox Server role• Consists of two components: Mailbox Transport

Submission and Mailbox Transport Delivery• Is the only service that handles RPC communication with

the database

Message Transport Components

What Is Exchange Workload Management?

Exchange workload management is a feature, protocol, or service that is monitored

Managing Exchange workloads:• Monitoring system resources and throttling• Each workload is assigned a classification with appropriate

priority• Classifications: Urgent, Customer Expectation, Internal

Maintenance, and Discretionary• System resource thresholds : Under loaded, Overloaded, and

Critical

• Resources consumption by individual users• Burst allowances• Recharge rate• Traffic shaping• Maximum usage

What Is Managed Availability?

ExchangeServer 2013

ManagedAvailability

OperationsManager

Probe

Check

Notify

Monitor

Escalate

Recover