limws: Install and Configure Exchange 2010

In this post, i will show you the basic configuration of Mailbox Server role.

Mailbox Server Role Configurations
1. Database Availability Group (DAG)

Create Database Availability Group (DAG)
1. Login into EXCH01. Open EMC > Mailbox > Database Availability Groups > Click New Database Availability Groups.

2. Enter the DAG information

3. Finish

Manage Database Availability Group (DAG)

1. Right click on the DAG01 and “Manage Database Availability Group Membership”

2. Click Add and select EXCH01 and EXCH02 into the membership list

3. Click Finish

Manage Database Availability Group Properties
1. Before configuring the alternative witness server, logon to AD and configure Exchange Trusted Subsystem

2. Add in RMS01 into the Exchange Trusted Subsystem group

3. Logon to RMS01 and look for local administrators group

4. Add in Exchange Trusted Subsystem into the local administrators group

5. Choose Properties of DAG01

6. Entering the alternate witness server and directory

7. Add in the DAG IP Address

8. Both EXCH01 and EXCH02 should be listed into Operational Servers

Database Availability Group Network

Rename the DAG Network accordingly.

Using two network adapters in each DAG member provides you with one MAPI network and one Replication network, with redundancy for the Replication network and the following recovery behaviors:

In the event of a failure affecting the MAPI network, a server failover will occur (assuming there are healthy mailbox database copies that can be activated).
In the event of a failure affecting the Replication network, if the MAPI network is unaffected by the failure, log shipping and seeding operations will revert to use the MAPI network, even if the MAPI network has it's ReplicationEnabled property set to False. When the failed Replication network is restored to health and ready to resume log shipping and seeding operations, you must manually switch over to the Replication network. To change replication from the MAPI network to a restored Replication network, you can either suspend and resume continuous replication by using the Suspend-MailboxDatabaseCopy and Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy cmdlets, or restart the Microsoft Exchange Replication service. We recommend using suspend and resume operations to avoid the brief outage caused by restarting the Microsoft Exchange Replication service.

Enable Database Activation Coordination (DAC) Mode

1. Logon to EXCH01 or EXCH02, enter the following cmdlet into EMS

Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG01 -DatacenterActivationMode DagOnly

2. Enter the following cmdlet to verify

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG01 | fl name,*activation

Add Database Copies
1. Select database to enable database copies and choose “ Add Mailbox Database Copy”

2. Browse the target server to enable mailbox database copies

3. Finish

4. Repeat step 1 to step 3 for the remaining mailbox database

2. Offline Address Book (OAB)

Set the default offline address book. The generation server can be anyone of the Exchange Mailbox server.

3. Journaling (Optional)
In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 organization, the Journaling agent generates journal reports that contain message metadata, and the entire original message is attached to the journal report. It's important to protect the integrity of journal reports and the journaling mailbox, and to protect them from unauthorized access.

Exchange 2010 provides the following journaling options:

Standard journaling: Standard journaling is configured on a mailbox database. It enables the Journaling agent to journal all messages sent to and from mailboxes located on a specific mailbox database. To journal all messages to and from all recipients and senders, you must configure journaling on all mailbox databases on all Mailbox servers in the organization.

Premium journaling: Premium journaling enables the Journaling agent to perform more granular journaling by using journal rules. Instead of journaling all mailboxes residing on a mailbox database, you can configure journal rules to match your organization's needs by journaling individual recipients or members of distribution groups. You must have an Exchange Enterprise client access license (CAL) to use premium journaling.

The Journaling can be enabled either by using premium journaling (journal rules) or standard journaling (per-mailbox database journaling), a mailbox that's used for collecting journal reports is required. This is known as a journaling mailbox.

In our setup, we are using standard journaling.

Create Journaling Mailbox

1. Logon to EXCH03, launch EMC and navigate to Recipient Configuration > Mailbox > New Mailbox

2. On the Introduction page, click User Mailbox

3. On the User Type page, click New User

4. On the User Information page, complete the fields.

5. Browse and select the database JOURNAL01

6. Skip the Archive Settings by click Next

7. Click New to create mailbox

8. Finish

Configure The Journaling Mailbox To Accept Messages Only From The Microsoft Exchange Recipient
1. Enter the following cmdlet in EMS
Set-Mailbox Journal -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers "Microsoft Exchange" -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $true

2. Enter the following cmdlet to verify
Get-Mailbox journal | fl *accept*,*require*

Disable Storage Quota Limits For The Journaling Mailbox
1. Enter the following cmdlet in EMS
Set-Mailbox journal -UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults $false -IssueWarningQuota unlimited -ProhibitSendQuota unlimited -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota unlimited