What are 3 mailbox types?
User
Disconnected
Resource
What is a user mailbox?
- default type of mailbox
- Any AD user account can have a user mailbox
- user account doesn’t have to be an existing AD account
What do the resource mailboxes support?
- Rooms, equipment:
- reservations,
- calendar
(can be automated or moderated)
What are mailbox databases?
- actual storage of mailboxes
- can have multiple database servers per mailbox
- by default database files are spread across all databases
Where is the database files located? (just here as a helpful reference)
Program files\Microsoft\exchange servers\V15\mailbox
EDB files
What should be refreshed after creating a database?
Microsoft Exchange Information Store
Task Manager- Services
What are features a database availability group (DAG)?
- provides high availability for mailboxes
- required multiple mailbox servers
- uses features of fail over clustering to do the work to provide high availability and site resilience.
For an exchange server Environment each sever has a _______ and ________ (the latter is a replication)
Active and passive
When you create a DAG, it’s initially empty. When you add the first server to a DAG, a _________ ________ is automatically created for the DAG
failover cluster
In Exchange Server, mail flow occurs through the __________ _________.
transport pipeline
What are the components of the transport pipeline?
Front End Transport service on Mailbox servers
Transport service on Mailbox servers
Mailbox Transport service on Mailbox servers
Transport service on Edge Transport servers
What is Front End Transport service on mailbox servers?
acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and (optionally) outbound external SMTP traffic for the Exchange Server organization
What is Transport service on Mailbox servers?
handles all SMTP mail flow for the organization, performs message categorization, and performs message content inspection.
What is the Mailbox Transport Submission service:?
- connects to the local mailbox database using an Exchange remote procedure call (RPC) to retrieve messages.
- The service submits the messages over SMTP to the Transport service on Mailbox servers
What are the two components of the Mailbox Transport service on Mailbox servers?
Mailbox Transport Submission service
Mailbox Transport Delivery service
What is the Mailbox Transport Delivery service?
- receives SMTP messages from the Transport service on Mailbox servers and connects to the local mailbox database using RPC to deliver the messages.
If you have an _____ _______ server installed in the perimeter network, all mail coming from the Internet or going to the Internet flows through the Transport service ______ ________ server.
Edge Transport
_________ _________ _______ are used only by the Mailbox Transport service to send messages to or receive messages from the local mailbox database
Remote procedure calls (RPCs)
What exchange powershell command do we use to show databases?
get-mailboxdatabase “name” |get:mailbox
Role groups enable you to ?
grant permissions to administrators and specialist users.
Role assignment policies enable you to?
grant permissions to end users to change settings on their own mailbox or distribution groups that they own.
SPF (sender policy framework) records are ?
- a specially formatted TXT record in DNS.
- SPF records make sure that only the organization that owns a domain is actually sending email from that domain.
What are MX records?
provide an easy way for mail servers to know where to send email. You can think of the MX record as a type of postal address. If you want Office 365 to receive all email addressed to anyone@contoso.com, the MX record for contoso.com should point to Office 365
Spam scanning is the _____ connection point to the Office 365 service.
initial
