Exchange 2013 - nützliche Infos

Andres Bohren

Hallo zusammen,

Hier habe ich ein paar nützliche Infos zu Exchange 2013 zusammengestellt.

Exchange Server 2013 Technet Library
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558.aspx

What's new
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150540.aspx
New Roles (Only "Client Access" and "Mailbox")
IOPS reduced up to 50% less IOPS
Better Integration with Office 365
Anti-Malware
DLP Protection
Compliance
Site Mailbox (integration with Sharepoint)
OWA Optimized for Windows 8 / Tablet
Outlook Apps
Social Networks integration in Outlook 2013 (Facebook / LinkedIn)
Monitoring auto/recovery
People Search

Discontinued Features
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj619283.aspx
The Exchange Management Console
Exchange Control Panel
Exchange Best Practice Analyzer has been retired
Routing log viewer has been retired
Outlook 2003 Support
RPC/TCP Access for Outlook
OWA Access to shared email folders
OWA Distribution list moderation
OWA S/MIME Support
OWA Spell Check
Hosting Mode

Exchange 2013 System Requirements
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719.aspx

Supported Exchange Versions for coexistence
Exchagne 2007 SP3 and Rollup that supports Exchange 2013 (Q1/2013)
Exchange 2010 SP3 (Q1/2013)

Active Directory
AD Forest: Windows Server 2003 forest functionality mode or higher
AD Schema master: Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher
AD Global Catalog: Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher
RODC nicht supportet
Exchange 2013 Active Directory Schema Changes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738144.aspx

AD Split Permissions
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638106.aspx
setup.exe /PrepareAD /ActiveDirectorySplitPermissions:true

Hardware
CPU x64
Mailbox 8GB minimum
Client Access 4GB minimum
Mailbox and Client Access combined 8GB minimum
PageFile physical RAM plus 10 MB
Disk NTFS File System
-30 GB free Disk Space
-500 MB or each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack
-500 MB message queue database on with at least

Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard or Enterprise
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
Windows Server Core not supported

Outlook Clients
Outlook 2013
Outlook 2010 SP1 with April 2012 Cumulative Update (No Support for Public Folder Mailboxes)
Outlook 2007 SP3 with July 2012 Cumulative Update (No Support for Public Folder Mailboxes)
Outlook 2003 not supported
Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition (No Support for Public Folder Mailboxes)
Outlook for Mac 2011 (No Support for Public Folder Mailboxes)
MAPI CDO announced for Q1/2013 (Used by 3rd Party Software like Blackberry)

Exchange 2013 Windows Feature Prerequisites
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354.aspx
Desktop-Experience
NET-HTTP-Activation
RPC-over-HTTP-proxy
RSAT-Clustering
RSAT-Web-Server
IIS
.Net Framework 4.5
Windows Management Framework 3.0
Unified Communication Managed API (UCMA) 4.0
Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack 64 bit

Roles
Roles "Client Access" and "Mailbox" no "Edge" but works with "Edge 2010" Role

Client Access Server
Client Access Protocolls (HTTP,IMAP,POP)
SMTP (Front End Transport service)
UM Call Router
Exchange Aware Proxy
No Exchange 2013 Edge Transport Server (but Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Edge Transport supported)
User throttling in Exchange has been expanded for Exchange 2013
CAS Array works with Layer4 Loadbalancer (Ex2010 needed Layer7 Loadbalancer)
RPC over HTTPS only (No RPC over TCP)

Mailbox Server
Remote Powershell
RPC
OWA, EAS, EWS, ECP, OAB
POP, IMAP
Transport
Unified Messaging (UM)

Management Tools
Eachange Administration Center (EAC)
Exchange Management Shell (EMS)
Enhanced Migration Toolset (not really clear)

Mailbox Database
Multiple Databases per Volume
Spare Volume -> Automatic Reseed
Reseed from multiple Servers
Page patching from Lag Copy
Automatic Log Play Down (less than 3 Copy)
Managed Availability = Monitoring + HA
Best Copy and Server Selection (BCSS)

Managed Store
Each Database has a own StoreWorkerProcess
ESE Cache Management on Startup
Replication Service Manages Mailboxdatabases and Switchovers

IOPS Reductions
New ESE Shema Update
Reduction in passive Copy IO (50% from Active Copy)
IOPS Reduction to Exchange 2003 97%

Large Mailboxes
Large Mailbox Size is 100 GB
Outlook 2013 "Slider Bar" (OST Size Control)

Modern public folders (Mailbox part of DAG)
Hierarchy is stored in a PF Mailbox
Content can be broken up an placed in multiple Mailboxes
Public folder Migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150486.aspx

Site Mailbox
Exchange mailbox for email messages and a SharePoint site for documents

New Search Infrastructure
Uses FAST Search Engine 
Content Transformation Service (CTS)
Fast Core (Catalog)
Interaction Management Service (IMS)

Transport on Mailbox
SMTP Tranport Delivery
SMTP Transport Submission
Transport Component Communication TCP465
Local RPC for MAPI
Shadow Redundancy

Antispam
Basic anti-spam and anti-malware http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201691
Exchange Online Protection (EOP) Replacement for Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE)

HA and Site resilience
Managed availability
Automatic configuration of DAG Network
Safety Net replaces Transport Dumpster

Compliance
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
eDiscovery Center Single Interface compliance query for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync 
IRM Windows Rights Management Services 
Transport Rules now Supports DLP
Retention Policies an Tags
In-place Discoveray & Retention Hold
Journaling
Auditing

Outlook Web App (OWA)
Offline Access - requires HTML5 compatible Browser (IE10 / Chrome 17 / Safari5)
Apps for Outlook 
OWA Optimized for Tablets and Smartphone
No Public Folder Support in OWA (Annouced for SP1)

Grüsse
Andres Bohren