REF: E14 Mailbox Role – Part 1 - Overview

 

 

Mailbox servers perform the following functions:
  • Host mailbox databases
  • Provide e-mail storage
  • Host public folder databases
  • Calculate e-mail address policies
  • Generate address lists and offline address books
  • Conduct multi-mailbox searches
  • High Availability and Site Resiliency
  • Content Indexing
  • Messaging Records Management and Retention Policies

Mailbox Server Interactions
  • The Mailbox server accesses recipient, server, and organization configuration information from Active Directory.
  • The Store driver on the Hub Transport server places messages from the transport pipeline into the appropriate mailbox. The Store driver on the Hub Transport server also adds messages from the Outbox of a sender on the Mailbox server to the transport pipeline.
  • The Client Access server sends requests from clients to the Mailbox server, and returns data from the Mailbox server to the clients. The Client Access server also accesses offline address book files on the Mailbox server through NetBIOS file sharing. The types of data that the Client Access server sends between the client and the Mailbox server are messages, free/busy data, client profile settings, and offline address book data.
  • The Unified Messaging server retrieves e-mail and voice mail messages and calendar information from the Mailbox server for Outlook Voice Access. The Unified Messaging server also retrieves storage quota information from the Mailbox server.
  • Outlook clients that are inside your firewall can access a Mailbox server directly to send and retrieve messages. Outlook clients outside the firewall can access a Mailbox server using remote procedure call (RPC) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

  • Services and Port Executables

    預設有幾個service 是停用的, 如要啟動Logging, MSExchangeTranportLogSearch 服務就必許手動啟用 (E2K7 相同)

    Service short name Service name Associated executable
    MSExchangeIS Microsoft Exchange Information Store Store.exe
    MSExchangeADTopology Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology MSExchangeADTopologyService.exe
    MSExchangeMailboxAssistants Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants MSExchangeMailboxAssistants.exe
    MSExchangeSearch Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer Microsoft.Exchange.Search.ExSearch.exe
    MSExchangeServiceHost Microsoft Exchange Service Host Microsoft.Exchange.ServiceHost.exe
    MSExchangeMonitoring Microsoft Exchange Monitoring Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.exe
    MSExchangeSA Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Mad.exe
    MSExchangeMailSubmission Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission Service MSExchangeMailSubmission.exe
    msftesql-Exchange Microsoft Search Msftesql.exe
    MSExchangeTranportLogSearch Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search MSExchangeTransportLogSearch.exe

     

     

    System Mailboxes

    The mailbox name, CN (common name), and GUID of the system mailboxes, as listed in Active Directory, are as follows:

    • E-discovery - SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}
    • Message Approval - SystemMailbox{1f05a927-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} where x is a randomly assigned number
    • FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042

     

    Blog Extended Reading

    More Information & Reference

    1. Overview of the Mailbox Server Role 

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