Autodiscover Overview The Autodiscover component is responsible for helping clients locate Exchange services (such as EWS). It greatly improves the user experience, most often during the initial setup of client computers and mobile devices (by auto-populating profile information). Let’s look at the three parts of Autodiscover to walk through how it works. In the screen…
Exchange Server 2016 Mail Flow Routing in the Mailbox Transport Service Similar to the Transport service, the Mailbox Transport service builds the routing table based on information from the AD DS. The Mailbox Transport service also uses delivery groups for message routing. The Mailbox Transport service always belongs to the same delivery group as the…
Advanced Threat Protection Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new email filtering service that complements Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and provides protection against specific types of advanced threats including phishing and zero day attacks. ATP delivers the following benefits: Safe links. Attackers sometimes try to hide malicious URLs with seemingly safe links that are redirected to…
Microsoft Exchange Server Edge Synchronization Edge Subscriptions are used to populate the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance on the Edge Transport server with Active Directory data. Although creating an Edge Subscription is optional, subscribing an Edge Transport server to the Exchange organization provides a simpler management experience and enhances antispam features. You…
Send connectors created automatically by the Edge Subscription Edge Subscription creates the following Send connectors: A Send connector named EdgeSync – Inbound to <Site Name> that’s configured to relay messages from the Edge Transport server to the Exchange organization. A Send connector named EdgeSync – <Site Name> to Internet that’s configured to relay messages from…
Configure Transport Rules Transport rules are configured by using a wizard, similar to the wizard that Outlook uses for mailbox rules. When you configure transport rules, you should define the following elements: Conditions. Transport rule conditions indicate which email message attributes, headers, recipients, senders, or other message parts Exchange Server uses to identify the email messages…
DAG Quorum and the File Share Witness Quorum is the voting process that the cluster uses to determine whether the DAG should remain online or go offline. If the DAG goes offline all of the databases in the DAG are dismounted and are therefore inaccessible to end users, causing an outage. There are two quorum…
Exchange File mode replication vs Block mode replication Database replication occurs between DAG members using two methods: (1). File mode replication (2). Block mode replication (1). File mode replication: During file mode replication, each transaction log files generated by the active database copy is written until it is closed off when it reaches 1MB in…
How to Check Mail Queue in Office 365 1. Open https://protection.office.com/ 2. Mail flow -> Dashboard -> Queues
Enable MRS Proxy endpoint for remote moves The Mailbox Replication service (MRS) has a proxy endpoint that’s required for cross-forest mailbox moves and remote move migrations between your on-premises Exchange organization and Microsoft 365 or Office 365. You enable the MRS proxy endpoint in the Exchange Web Services (EWS) virtual directory settings in the…