Exchange 20102013 Architecture

Overview
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Agenda
1 Exchange 2010 Server Roles
2 Exchange 2013 Server Roles

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles

Exchange Server 2010 implementations have three
layers in their architecture: a network layer, a directory
layer, and a messaging layer.
The messaging layer is where you define and deploy the
Exchange Server roles.
The Exchange servers at the core of the messaging layer
can operate in the following roles:

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles

1. Mailbox Role
2. Client Access Server Role (CAS)
3. Hub Transport Server
4. Edge Transport Server
5. Unified Messaging Role (UM)

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (Mailbox)

1. Mailbox Role
1.1 Host mailbox databases
1.2 Provide e-mail storage
1.3 Host public folder databases
1.4 Calculate e-mail address policies
1.5 Generate address lists and offline address books (OABs)
1.6 Conduct Multi-Mailbox Searches
1.7 Provide high availability and site resiliency
1.8 Provide content indexing
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1.9 Provide messaging records management (MRM) and retention policies

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (Mailbox)

The Mailbox server must interact directly with the
following:

Active Directory
Client Access Server
Unified Messaging Server
Outlook desktop clients

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2. Client Access Server role (CAS)

It supports the Outlook Web App, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client

applications, Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) and Internet Message
Access Protocol version 4(IMAP4) protocols.

The Client Access server role also provides access to free/busy data by
using the Availability service and enables certain clients to download
automatic configuration settings from the Autodiscover service.

You must install the Client Access server role in every Exchange
organization and every Active Directory site that has the Mailbox server
role installed.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (CAS)

CAS Architecture :

Outlook Web App

Exchange ActiveSync
POP3 and IMAP
The Availability Service
The Autodiscover Service
PowerShell

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (CAS)

Outlook Web Application (OWA)
Outlook Web App lets you access your e-mail from any Web
browser.
Features such as Chat, Text Messaging, mobile phone
integration, and Conversation View provide an enhanced
user experience from any computer that has a Web browser.
These features can be accessed from an expanded set of
Web browsers including versions of Internet Explorer later
than 6.0, Firefox, Safari, and Google's Chrome.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (CAS)

Exchange Active Sync
Exchange ActiveSync lets you synchronize data
between your mobile phone and Exchange server. You
can synchronize e-mail, contacts, calendar
information, and tasks.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (CAS)

POP and IMAP
In addition to supporting MAPI and HTTP clients,
Exchange 2010 also supports POP3 and IMAP4
clients.
By default, POP3 and IMAP4 are installed, but the
services are disabled when you install the Client
Access server role.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles (CAS)

Availability Service
The Exchange 2010 Availability service provides secure,
consistent, and up-to-date free/busy data to computers
that are running Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and later
versions of Outlook.
These versions of Outlook use the Autodiscover service to
obtain the URL of the Availability service.
Essentially, the Autodiscover service helps capable
Outlook clients locate different Web services, such as the
Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service, the
Offline Address Book, and Availability services.
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Autodiscover Service
The Autodiscover service enables Outlook clients
and some mobile phones to receive their necessary
profile settings directly from the Exchange server by
using the client's domain credentials.
These settings automatically update the client with
the information that's needed to create the user's
profile.

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PowerShell
PowerShell allows you to manage your Exchange
settings from the command line. You use Windows
PowerShell on your local computer to create a
remote Shell session to Exchange.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles

3. Hub Transport Server

Hub Transport server role handles all mail flow inside the organization,
applies transport rules, applies journaling policies, and delivers messages
to a recipient's mailbox.

Messages that are sent to the Internet are relayed by the Hub Transport
server to the Edge Transport server role that's deployed in the perimeter
network.

Messages that are received from the Internet are processed by the Edge
Transport server before they're relayed to the Hub Transport server. You
can also install and configure the Edge Transport server agents on the Hub
Transport server to provide anti-spam and antivirus protection inside the
organization, although this isn't recommended.

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Exchange 2010 Server Roles

4. Edge Transport Server

Edge Transport server role is deployed in your organization's perimeter

network.

Designed to minimize the attack surface, the Edge Transport server

handles all Internet-facing mail flow, which provides SMTP relay and smart
host services for the Exchange organization.

Additional layers of message protection and security are provided by a

series of agents that run on the Edge Transport server and act on
messages as they're processed by the message transport components.

These agents support the features that provide protection against viruses
and spam and apply transport rules to control message flow.

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5. Unified Messaging

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging (UM) combines voice

messaging and e-mail messaging into a single messaging infrastructure.

Unified Messaging puts all e-mail and voice messages into one Exchange
2010 mailbox that can be accessed from many different devices.

After Unified Messaging servers have been deployed on a network, users

can access their messages using Outlook Voice Access, from any
telephone, from a mobile phone, or from the computer.

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Exchange 2013 Server Roles

Exchange 2013 has two Roles:
1. Mailbox Server Role
2. Client Access Server Role
Each organization requires minimum one Mailbox Server Role and
Client Access Server Role.

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1. Mailbox Server Role

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Client Access Protocols

Transport Service
Mailbox Databases
Unified Messaging (Except SIP Redirection)
Handles all activities for active Mailboxes on that Server

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2. Client Access Server Role

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Authentication
Redirection (limited)
Proxy Services for HTTP, POP, IMAP and SMTP
Thin and Stateless Server
Does not do any data rendering
Nothing is queued or stored here (except diagnostic logging)

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References
1. Mailbox Role in Exch 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124699(v=exchg.141).aspx
2. Client Access Role in Exch 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124915(v=exchg.141).aspx
3. Hub Transport Role in Exch 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123494(v=exchg.141).aspx
4. Unified Messaging in Exch 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125141(v=exchg.141).aspx
5. Edge Server in Exch 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124701(v=exchg.141).aspx
6. Exchange Server 2013: https://
social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16953.understanding-exchange-2013server-roles-in-the-simplest-way.aspx
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