Exchange 2019 admin center overview - Microsoft Exchange Server Tutorial

and we get there by going to the start button, clicking on Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 And it brings up a URL that points to the local host, the certificate that was set up. dot us And you can leave the rest of the URL, the same. We'll log in the the Exchange admin center, on a regular basis. And this is where we would add additional user mailboxes by clicking on the plus sign. by clicking on the plus sign. If you click on permissions, If you click on permissions, this is were we can set up administrator rolls. As well as the web browsing Outlook web app policies. And we can add junior administrators to take on other rolls besides the main administrator other rolls besides the main administrator in this section. If you click on compliance management, this is where we can set up compliance settings depending on the state or country, where you use Exchange. Various rules apply to different countries and different types of businesses. We can also set up auditing, as well as retention policies. Under organization, we can set up a Federation Trust, we can set up a Federation Trust, and that allows us to connect to other and that allows us to connect to other Exchange servers and other domains and forests. If we go to protection, we see the malware filter and it's turned on by default but we can certainly go in and edit those settings, to make them stronger, or delete them altogether. Under mail flow we have; rules, delivery reports, accepted domains, etc. And that basically helps us set up how the mail is going to flow through our Exchange server. For instance, under the rule section that you see here, we have two big descends, so we have a limitation on the size of emails that we can send to other users. Under accepted domains, we see the names of the domains for which we can send and receive email. In this case we see two accepted domains. So people can send email to us on either one of those domains. And when we send outbound email, it will show up as one of those two domains as the sending address. as one of those two domains as the sending address. We also have the ability to set up We also have the ability to set up receive and send connectors, so we can make sure receive and send connectors, so we can make sure where we're receiving and sending our mail to and from, that it is from a location or to a location that is accepted to us. Under mobile, we can set up mobile device access. And this allows us to lockdown or free-up various different rules towards our mobile devices. various different rules towards our mobile devices. And it does work with Android and Iphone. And it does work with Android and Iphone. Under public folders we can create Under public folders we can create public folder mailboxes, and public folders public folder mailboxes, and public folders that go inside them. that go inside them. Public folders are folders that allow us to share either calendar or email information, with other users on the network. This is more of a legacy type of system This is more of a legacy type of system and there are better uses of shared mailboxes, and there are better uses of shared mailboxes, as well as shared calendars, that we'll also take a look at in upcoming videos. take a look at in upcoming videos. But for those companies that are use to using public folders and public folder mailboxes, that's still here in Exchange Server 2019. Under servers this gives us a list of the servers Under servers this gives us a list of the servers that we've installed and we can see two Exchange servers. If we click on databases, we can see the exchange mailbox databases and this is a mailbox server. The other option would be an edge server, The other option would be an edge server, that sits in the DMZ, that sits in the DMZ, that allows us to filter out email that doesn't get delivered to our mail server because it may have issues with spam or viruses. And under our hybrid category, this allows us to link back with Microsoft as you're in Office 365, so we can synchronize email to two different locations for high availability, and we can have that high availability offsite. and we can have that high availability offsite. The other option for high availability, The other option for high availability, would be to set up a database availability group. would be to set up a database availability group. And you can do that with on premises Exchange servers, both in the same location or in differing locations. Using the Exchange admin center is where administrators go to manage their Exchange server 2019 environment.