Install, Configure, and Manage

the Mailbox Role:

Configure and Manage the Mailbox Role


Configure and manage the
mailbox role
This objective may include but is not
limited to:
Create and configure Offline Address Book (OAB)
Create and configure public folders
Deploy mailbox server roles
Design and create hierarchical address lists

Company: PhyQuo
A grouping of physicians within the United
States dedicated to improving health care

Problem:
Distributed offices with location and
organizational hierarchy mismatches

Goal:
Utilize a location appropriate public folder
structure with a hierarchical address book
configuration
Scenario: Physicians Quorum
OABs are used by Outlook clients in Cached
Exchange Mode for address book lookups while
offline
Note: This also takes the load off Exchange because local OAB is
queried first

Exchange 2013 alters the OAB generation process:
OAB is generated by each 2013 Mailbox server that hosts a special
arbitration mailbox which provides greater resiliency
The arbitration mailbox is called the Organization Mailbox
The OAB is generated in the Organization Mailbox first and then it is
later copied to the disk

Offline Address Books
Public folders are now created within a public
folder mailbox (inside a mailbox database)

You can place public folders on different servers
and mailbox databases but the end-user sees the
hierarchy without knowing the locations
Public Folder Configuration
London
HR
Marketing
Located on London MB server
Located on London MB server
Located on NY MB server
Once created you can move public folder
mailboxes and public folders (individual or
multiple)

Move a PF Mailbox:
New-MoveRequest

Move a single/multiple PFs:
New-PublicFolderMoveRequest

Move a branch of PFs:
.\Move-PublicFolderBranch.ps1

Moving Public Folder Mailboxes and Public Folders
It is super easy to make this happen!

Just kidding it is crazy PowerShell oriented and
multi-step to make this happen!

You will use the PublicFolderMigrationRequest
cmdlets to make it happen and can also use some
PowerShell scripts to help you
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150486(v=exchg.150).aspx
Migrate Public Folders to Exchange 2013
The best advice for a real-world deployment?

The Microsoft Exchange Server Deployment Assistant
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/jj657516.aspx


Deploy Exchange Server Roles
The Hierarchical Address Book (HAB) feature is a
way to allow end users to look for recipients within
their address book based on their organizational
hierarchy (as opposed to their Global Address List
structure)




Hierarchical Address Book (HAB)
You have to use the EMS to create the HAB
structure but you can use the EAC to manage
memberships once created

To create the root for the HAB use:
Set-OrganizationalConfig HierarchicalAddressBookRoot insert name

To add subordinate groups use:
Set-Group
Add-DistributionGroupMember






Hierarchical Address Book (HAB) cont.
These folks certainly required a lot of configuration
tweaks rather than out-of-the-box Exchange

An OAB configuration, modern public folders,
hierarchical address books and more

Note how often PowerShell came into play within
these configurations
The EAC is great for MOST tasks but not the nitty gritty stuff that you
may be called upon to perform in a real-world (or exam-world) setting

Scenario: PhyQuo
Additional Research
OAB in Exchange Server 2013
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/26/oab-in-
exchange-server-2013.aspx

Public folders in the new Office
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/11/08/public-
folders-in-the-new-office.aspx

Microsoft Deployment Assistant
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/jj657516.aspx

Enable or Disable Hierarchical Address Books
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607473(v=exchg.150).aspx