Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Part F

This is the 6th installment in my blog post series on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 which is based on what I learn doing the video training course by Infinite Skills of the same name. Much of this course is about the various technologies inherent in one of these networks and the different types of account you have to set up. Set up the accounts etc themselves is quite straight forward. Designing the network and making sure everyone can do their job is the hard part. Exchange 2013 is an email, telephone and maybe instant messaging network with things like back up and archiving emails thrown in. It also has to integrate with software like Sharepoint & Office. A dynamic distribution group is where a message is sent out to a group but a query is executed and only members who meet a certain criteria like being at a location, receive it. You select recipients/ groups and then the down arrow by + and not a - like I said in some of the other lessons and select dynamic distribution group. You then select your criteria for what is similar to an advanced search. A room mailbox is a mail account for a room like a meeting room or conference room where you might have a meeting. You go into EAC, select recipients/ resources then the down arrow by the + button and choose room mailbox & fill in the relevant information to create a room mailbox. If you have trouble finding the room or are going to be late for the meeting the idea is you can contact them. Another benefit when all this is integrated is say you need a room for a meeting at short notice you can find an empty room via Exchange Server. You have to set up a criteria in Outlook Web App in addition to EAC. You can also go into EAC & select recipients and mailboxes and if you have full access rights send a message via someone else's mailbox either as him or on behalf of him. Those are 2 separate options. A final thing I'll mention is you should keep the log files and databases on separate hard drives because if your database fails the log files might help with restoring it and finding out what went wrong. Also with cloud computing being so popular it's recommended you have a RAID 1 or 1+0 to store your data but not essential. But do bear in mind you might have to restore your data and the internet might be down for whatever reason or even your cloud provider might be having maintenance done on their site which might be down.