Server 2007/2010 interview

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Posted on 07/11/2012

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Exchange Transport Role

1. Where does Exchange 2007 get its routing topology from?
Exchange 2007 uses the Active Directory site topology to determine how
messages are transported in the organization. The Hub Transport server uses
the Active Directory Topology service to retrieve the Exchange organizations
configuration information. Unlike earlier versions of Exchange, Exchange 2007
does not use a link state routing table and does not try to calculate an
alternative route when a connection is unavailable.
2. What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or
hardware options?
3. Whats a Smart Host? When would you configure and use it?
4. What is Send Connector?
Send Connector
5. What is Receive Connectors? Provide two default receive connector
names?
Receive Connector: By default, when you install the Hub Transport server role,
two Receive connectors exist. No additional Receive connectors are needed. The
default Receive connectors do not require any additional configuration changes.

Default Receive connector:

(A) Client <Servername>: This Receive connector accepts SMTP connections
from all non-MAPI clients, such as POP and IMAP. This connector work on port

587.
(B) Default <Servername>: This Receive connector accepts connections from
Edge Transport servers to receive messages from the Internet and from other
Hub Transport servers. This connector work on port 25
Whats the major issue blocking you from receiving e-mail from the
world, considering youve enabled the right port(s) on the firewall, and
properly configured MX records for your domain(s)?
6. Whats the difference between the Client and the Default
Receive Connectors?
Youre looking to troubleshoot e-mail delivery issues. Name 4
options/tools/logs that are built into Exchange 2007/2010 that can help
you in your task.
7. How to enable Anti-Spam features on the HT role and what is the
recommendation?
8. Where does Edge role store its settings?
Edge Transport server role installed doesnt have access to Active Directory. The
Edge Transport server stores all configuration and recipient information in ADAM.
Because Active Directory and ADAM both use Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP), and because both directory services use the Exchange 2007
schema, you can replicate data from Active Directory to ADAM.
Types of Data Replicated to ADAM
A. Edge Subscription information
Provision and maintain the credentials to help secure the LDAP connection.
Arbitrate the synchronization lock and lease process.
Optimize the EdgeSync synchronization process
B. Configuration information
Hub Transport servers
Accepted domains
Message classifications
Remote domains
Send connectors
Internal SMTP servers
Domain Secure lists

C. Recipient information
Recipients
Proxy addresses
Safe Senders List and Safe Recipients List
Per recipient anti-spam settings
D. Topology information
Notification of newly subscribed Edge Transport servers. This data is refreshed
every five minutes.
9. How to enable high-availability and load balancing on Edge servers?
10. What is Edge subscription and process to enable Edge
subscription?
Exchange 2007 Edge Transport server role is always deployed in organizations
DMZ (perimeter) network. Edge Transport server handles all Internet mail flow. It
also provides some additional protection and security provided by a series of
agents running on the Edge Transport server. These agents protect messages
against viruses and spam and apply transport rules to control message flow.
This is an optional process, subscribing an Edge Transport server provide antispam features, recipient lookup or safelist, or secure SMTP communications.
Edge Subscription Process
A. Make sure that the Hub Transport servers and the Edge Transport server can
resolve the each other FQDNs by using DNS.
B. Run the New-EdgeSubscription cmdlet in the EMS on the Edge Transport
server to export the Edge Subscription file.
C. Copy the Edge Subscription file to a Hub Transport server.
D. Run the New-EdgeSubscription cmdlet in the EMS or EMC to import the Edge
Subscription file.
11. Whats the default replication interval for Edge sync and what is
the step to force replication?
When the Exchange Edge server starts, the Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync
service starts and establishes a synchronization schedule.
Configuration data is synchronized to ADAM once every hour.
Recipient data is synchronized to ADAM once every four hours.
You cannot modify the synchronization intervals.

Steps to Sync Edge sync replication

Use the EMS to immediately start synchronization of data from the Active
Directory service to the subscribed Edge Transport servers. Run the below
command on the HB transport server.
Start-EdgeSynchronization -Server <Hub Transport server name>
12. What ports required to open between the DMZ holding the Edge
role and internal network?
13. How to configure E-mal routing to be able to send e-mail externally
(to the Internet) and what do you need to do?
14. What are the default connectors created during the Exchange Edge
subscription?
When we do the EdgeSync synchronization process, it creates two send
connector which then replicated to ADAM.
A Send connector that is configured to relay e-mail messages from the
Exchange organization to the Internet.
Connector Name: EdgeSync <Site Name> to Internet
A Send connector that is configured to relay e-mail messages from the
Edge Transport server to the Exchange organization.
Connector Name: EdgeSync Inbound to <Site Name>
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15. What is Accepted Domains and difference?

Exchange Mailbox Role

What is OAB? OAB? When it is used and what are the OAB distribution

options?
What is the GAL and when would you decide to create more than one
GAL?
What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2007 stores work?
Whats a Recovery Storage Group? How do you work with one?
Can you use Exmerge in Exchange 2007/2010? Why?
How do you export a mailbox content in Exchange 2007/2010?
Whats a Dial Tone recovery?
Describe the concept behind Log Shipping.
Whats the difference between LCR, CCR and SCR and SCC?
What are the high availability solutions introduced in Exchange Server
2010?
What id DAC and when it need to enable?
Whats the major difference in store high availability in Exchange
2007?
What Exchange edition version do you need for LCR? What Windows
edition version do you need for LCR?
How do you recover from a store corruption when using LCR? Name the
procedures you would use.
What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2010 stores work?

Name some of the changes in comparison with Exchange 2003 and

Exchange 2007.

Exchange Tools, Backup

1. What is Eseutil and Isinteg, Name a few scenarios for using both
tools?
Eseutil
Isinteg
Scenario when you need there utilities.
When there is a logical corruption in database.
When you have enough free white space in Exchange database.
When your Exchange database disk going to full and need to free disk space.
For more details go to URL
2. What backup solutions are you familiar with in Exchange 2007/2010?
3. What built-in tool do you have to allow you to manage Exchange
store recoveries?
4. What the difference is between online and offline defrag?
5. What are streaming backups and VSS backups?
6. How would you backup Exchange 2007/2010 on a Windows Server
2008/R2 machine without using 3rd-party tools?
7. Whats a Brick-Level backup?