Troubleshoot Exchange Web Services (EWS) EWS is a built-in component that is almost always enabled. It is a service that enables other applications and services to communicate with Exchange to obtain mailbox information such as calendaring and contact data. It…
Autodiscover Overview The Autodiscover component is responsible for helping clients locate Exchange services (such as EWS). It greatly improves the user experience, most often during the initial setup of client computers and mobile devices (by auto-populating profile information). Let’s look…
Exchange Server 2016 Mail Flow Routing in the Mailbox Transport Service Similar to the Transport service, the Mailbox Transport service builds the routing table based on information from the AD DS. The Mailbox Transport service also uses delivery groups for…
Advanced Threat Protection Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new email filtering service that complements Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and provides protection against specific types of advanced threats including phishing and zero day attacks. ATP delivers the following benefits: Safe…
Introduction to Edge Transport Servers Exchange Server 2016 provides two types of roles, namely the Mailbox server and Edge Transport servers. Mailbox servers contain mailbox databases that process, render, and store data, the transport services that are used to route…
Microsoft Exchange Server Edge Synchronization Edge Subscriptions are used to populate the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance on the Edge Transport server with Active Directory data. Although creating an Edge Subscription is optional, subscribing an Edge Transport…
Send connectors created automatically by the Edge Subscription Edge Subscription creates the following Send connectors: A Send connector named EdgeSync – Inbound to <Site Name> that’s configured to relay messages from the Edge Transport server to the Exchange organization. A…
Configure Transport Rules Transport rules are configured by using a wizard, similar to the wizard that Outlook uses for mailbox rules. When you configure transport rules, you should define the following elements: Conditions. Transport rule conditions indicate which email message attributes,…
Foreign Connectors Sometimes you have to deliver email messages to a system that does not support SMTP as a transport mechanism. One such example is a fax-gateway server. In this scenario, you can use a foreign connector, which uses the…
Managed Availability Components Probes The first component is called a Probe. Probes are responsible for taking measurements on the server and collecting data. There are three primary categories of probes: recurrent probes, notifications, and checks. Recurrent probes are synthetic transactions performed…