Exchange General

1. What is the server roles in Exchange 2007?

2. What are the Exchange 2003 sever roles equivalents of the
various Exchange server 2007/2010 roles?
Exchange server 2003
Front End Server (SMTP Service)
Front End Server
Backend End Server

Exchange server 2007/2010

HUB Transport Server
Client Access Server
Mailbox Server
Edge Transport Server (NEW)
Unified Messaging

3. Name the system prerequisites for installing Exchange 2007?

4. Why doesnt we install Outlook on the same machine running
Exchange 2007/2010?
5. Where does Exchange store its configuration settings?
6. How do you prepare the AD for Exchange 2007?
7. How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?
8. What are in the installation folder root setup.com and setup.exe.
Which would you use and when?
9. What is PowerShell in Exchange server and Name one major
benefit of PowerShell v2 over V1?
10. Whats the difference between the Enterprise and Standard
editions of Exchange in relation with the number and size of the
stores on the server?
11. What is Cached Mode in Outlook 2007/2010?
12. What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME?
13. What are E-Discovery features?
14. In Exchange 2007, what are the minimum requirements for
implementing a high availability topology, in relation to the server
roles and server numbers?

Exchange Recipient Level

1. What are the different Exchange Recipient types?
User mailbox: This mailbox is created for an individual user to store mails,
calendar items, contacts, tasks, documents, and other business data.
Linked mailbox: This mailbox is created for an individual user in a separate,
trusted forest. For example AD account is created in A.COM and Mailbox is

created in B.COM Exchange Server.

Shared mailbox: This mailbox is not primarily associated with a single user
and is generally configured to allow logon access for multiple users.
Legacy mailbox: This mailbox is resides on a server running Exchange
Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server.
Room mailbox: This mailbox is created for a meeting location, such as a
meeting or conference room, auditorium, or training room. When we create
this mailbox, by default a disabled user object account is created.
Equipment mailbox: A resource mailbox is created for a non-location
specific resource, such as a portable computer projector, microphone, or a
company car. When we create this mailbox, by default a disabled user object
account is created. Equipment mailboxes provide a simple and efficient way
for users to use resources in manageable way.
2. What is the difference between mail user and mail contact?
Mail user: This is an Active Directory user that represents e-mail address
outside your Exchange organization. Each mail user has an external e-mail
address to which all messages sent to the mail user are routed.
Mail contact: This is an Active Directory contact that contains e-mail
address information about people or organizations that exist outside your
Exchange organization. Each mail contact has an external e-mail address. All
messages sent to the mail contact are routed to this external e-mail address.
3. What is the difference between Distribution group and Dynamic
Distribution group?
Mail-enabled (Universal distribution group): This is an Active Directory
distribution group object that can be used only to distribute messages to a
group of recipients.
Mail-enabled (Universal security group):A mail-enabled Active Directory
security group object that can be used to grant access permissions to
resources in Active Directory, and can also be used to distribute messages.
Mail-enabled (Non-universal group): This is an Active Directory global or
local group object. Mail-enabled non-universal groups are de-emphasized in
Exchange 2007 and can exist only if they were migrated from previous
versions of Exchange. You cannot use Exchange 2007 to create new nonuniversal distribution groups.

Dynamic distribution group: A distribution group that uses recipient filters

and conditions to derive its membership at the time messages are sent.

Exchange CAS Role

1. What is OWA?
OWA refer to Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 by you access your email from any Web browser. Outlook Web Access contains many new features
such as meeting booking, Microsoft SharePoint Services and Windows file
share integration, and a rich user experience from any computer that has a
Web browser.
2. What is the Exchange ActiveSync?
Exchange ActiveSync is a feature which synchronize you email data between
your mobile device and Exchange server. Using Active sync you can
synchronize e-mail, contacts, calendar and tasks. Mobile devices running
Windows Mobile software and Windows Mobile 5.0, are all supported.
3. What is Availability service
The Availability service provides free/busy information using secure,
consistent, and up-to-date free/busy data to users that are running Outlook
2007. Outlook 2007 uses the Autodiscover service to obtain the URL of the
Availability service.
4. What is Autodiscover service?
This service enables Outlook clients and some mobile devices to receive their
necessary profile settings directly from the Exchange server by using the
clients Active Directory domain credentials or users SMTP domain.
5. What is Outlook Anywhere and describe the method for enabling
Outlook Anywhere?
Outlook Anywhere feature (previously known as RPC over HTTP) provide a
facility to connect your Internet-based Microsoft Outlook clients to connect to
your Exchange Server 2007. This featureeliminates the need to use virtual
private networks (VPNs) if Exchange server 2003 with Sp1 and Exchange
2007.
Outlook Anywhere can be enabled by using the
Exchange Management Console
Open Exchange Management console tree > expand Server Configuration >
then click Client Access.
In the action pane, click Enable Outlook Anywhere.

Exchange Management Shell

Enable-OutlookAnywhere -Server: <ServerName> -ExternalHostName:
<ExternalHostName> -ClientAuthenticationMethod:Basic
-IISAuthenticationMethods <MultiValuedProperty> -SSLOffloading:$false
Requirement of Outlook anywhere
Install a valid Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate from a trusted
certification authority (CA).
Install the Windows RPC over HTTP Proxy component
6. What are the certificates can be installed on Exchange 2007 and
Name a few commercial CAs?
Wildcard Certificate: Exchange Server support certificates with wildcard
names, such as *.nakshatrait.com. This is an acceptable domain. Please
make sure that some legacy clients and mobile devices do not support
wildcard names on a certificate.
SAN Certificate: This is the most widely used certificate type such as it has
one common name like webmail.nakshatrait.com and some additional
domain name refer to Exchange other services like
Autodiscover.nakshatrait.com, pop.nakshatrait.com, imap.nakshatrait.com.
7. How to Determine When to Use Certificates Issued by Public CAs
and When to Use Self-Signed Certificates?
Whenever your users are access Exchange components that require
authentication and encryption from outside your corporate firewall, it is time
to deploy a certificate issued by a public CA. Let users are accessing
Exchange ActiveSync, POP3, IMAP4, and Outlook Anywhere. so in this case
you require a certificate that is issued by a public CA.
A self-signed certificate used by Exchange 2007 component that uses
Kerberos, Direct Trust, or NTLM authentication. These are all internal
Exchange 2007 components, to the fact that the data paths are between
Exchange 2007 servers and within the corporate network that is defined by
Active Directory.
8. Named the Exchange 2007 components use certificates?
SMTP
EdgeSync synchronization
POP3 and IMAP4
Unified Messaging
Autodiscover
Client Access applications such as Outlook Anywhere, OWA, and Exchange
ActiveSync