Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer - ExPDA

1. Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer - ExPDA • www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=88b304e7-9912-4cb0-8ead-7479dab1abf2&displaylang=en

2. Troubleshooting an Exchange Server 2010 Installation Script to start the services: Test-ServiceHealth | Select-Object ServicesNotRunning | Where-Object { $_.ServicesNotRunning.Count -gt 0 } | foreach { Start-Service $_.ServicesNotRunning }

3. Designing Autodiscover Setting the internal Autodiscover URL: Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity “Your Server Name" -AutodiscoverServiceInternalURI “https://VAN-EX2/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml” Configure site affinity: Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity “YourServerName" -AutodiscoverServiceInternalURI "https://VAN-EX1/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml" AutodiscoverSiteScope "HeadOffice" Configure DNS for external clients: https://autodiscover.<e-maildomain>/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml https://<e-maildomain>autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

4. Demonstration: How to Configure Edge Synchronization On the Edge Transport server, in the Exchange Management Shell, run New-EdgeSubscription -FileName “c:\van-edge.xml” Import the Edge subscription file on the Hub Transport server using EMC. Start-EdgeSynchronization Test-EdgeSynchronization to test Edge synchronization. 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. Configure address rewriting using New-addressRewriteEntry

5. How Important is Antivirus in Exchange Server 2010? • 19.5 percent of emails contain links to malicious code. • Targeted trojans aimed at senior-level employees and management are on the rise. • Online criminals are getting smarter. They spam using images and PDF files. They blend web and email attacks. • In August 2010, 1 in every 327.6 emails contained a virus (from MLI) • 200 unique strains of malware per day are missed by traditional signature-based engines The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers , has been forced to shut down its email systems and all Internet access for employees since late last Friday, following a sophisticated cyber attack. The attacks were launched through phishing emails that were sent to about 573 lab employees. The emails were disguised to appear like it came from the lab's HR department and purported to inform employees of some benefits related changes. The emails contained a link that employees were asked to click on for further information

6. Database Availability Group Extra Info • The witness server and its directory are used only for quorum purposes where there's an even number of members in the DAG • When creating a DAG, you need to specify a name for the DAG no longer than 15 characters that's unique within the Active Directory forest • Add the Exchange Trusted Subsystem universal security group (USG) to the local Administrators group on the witness server prior to creating the DAG.

7. What Is Continuous Replication in SP1? • Continuous Replication - Block Mode • As each update is written to the active database copy's active log buffer, it's also shipped to a log buffer on each of the passive mailbox copies. • When the log buffer is full, each database copy builds, inspects, and creates the next log file in the generation sequence • If a failure affects the active copy, the passive copies will have been updated with most or all of the latest updates

8. Recovering Deleted Items • To enable Single Item Recovery for Scott MacDonald: • Set-Mailbox ScottMacDonald -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled:$true • To enable Single Item Recovery for all mailboxes: • Get-mailbox | Set-Mailbox -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled:$true • To enable a User1 to Recover messages other users have deleted: • New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role 'Mailbox Import Export' -User 'adatum\User1‘ • Give User1 Full Access permissions to the Discovery Search Mailbox • Use the Export-Mailbox cmdlet to recover the Messages to the original mailbox

9. How Personal Archives Work in Exchange Server 2010 SP1 • The Archive mailbox can be a different database or in the cloud with SP1 • By default, in Exchange 2010 SP1, the archive warning quota is set to 45 gigabytes (GB) and the archive quota is set to 50 GB. • In Exchange 2010 release to manufacturing (RTM), both quotas are set to Unlimited. • Set-Mailbox -Identity "Chris Ashton" -ArchiveQuota 1GB -ArchiveWarningQuota 950MB

10. Migrating PSTs to Personal Archives with Exchange 2010 SP1 • Exchange Management Shell provides the following new cmdlets: • New-MailboxExportRequest • New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath \\server\share\name.pst -Mailbox User Name • New-MailboxImportRequest • New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath \\server\share\name.pst -Mailbox User Name • Other useful parameters for these commands: • –IncludeFolders and –ExcludeFolders • Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics • Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics • These commands work on the Exchange 2010 SP1 server without the need for Outlook to be installed. You must have the Mailbox Export Import Role to see the cmdlets

11. Testing From The Outside In https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

12. Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home