Active Directory and DNS Preparation: Minimum Domain Requirements: • Windows Server 2003 Standard with Service Pack 2 (SP2) • Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 • Active Directory Forest Level – Windows Server 2003 or Higher • User Account member of the Domain, Schema and Enterprise Admins Groups. Internal DNS Setup
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Active Directory and DNS Preparation:
Minimum Domain Requirements:
• Windows Server 2003 Standard with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Support for Windows Server 2012 R2
• Active Directory Forest Level – Windows Server 2003 or Higher
• User Account member of the Domain, Schema and Enterprise Admins
Groups.
Internal DNS Setup
• Create a CNAME record for Autodiscover that points to your server.
• Alias Name will be autodiscover (as shown above)
• FQDN will be the full name in the forward lookup zone you added the
CNAME in. for example, if it was domain.com then autodiscover would be
autodiscover.domain.dom.
• FQDN for Target host is your primary exchange server.
External DNS Setup
• Create an A record that will point to your public IP for that exchange
server.
Server Preparation:
• Server 2012 Operating System (Need to be the same version as we going
to setup a DAG)
• Join Server to Domain.
• All Windows Updates installed.
Windows Features to be installed via Windows Powershell:
� Click on the + button and select Distribution group.
� Type in the display Name � Type in the Alias � Click the browse button to add it to a specific OU. � Click the + button to add a owner. � Scroll down to add in more info (screen shot below)
� Click the + button to add in the members of this group. � Select your option regarding the approval of this Distribution Group.
You can also create a distribution list using the EMS:
� Enter in the Display Name and Alias. � Click browse to select an OU. � Click on the + button to grant Send As Permissions. � If you click the More Options button you can set the Mailbox Database where this
mailbox should be housed. � You can also select a policy. � Once done click Save.
Monitoring Queues and DAG:
Open up the Exchange Management Shell.
To find the status of the email Queue type in the following command:
• Get-Queue
This will give output the status, Message Count, DeliveryType and NextHopDomain.
You can also use Exchange Queue Viewer located in the Exchange Toolbox.
To check the DAG status type in the following command:
• Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * (This will show all servers)
• Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus (without the * it will show the current server)