Exchange 2010 Interview Questions

1. What are the new features introduced in Exchange Server 2010 on overview perspective?

1. Protection and compliance
2. Anywhere Access
3. Flexible and reliable

2. What’s new in Protection and compliance?

• Email Archiving
• Protect Communication
• Advanced Security

3. What’s new in anywhere Access?

1. Manage Inbox Overload
2. Enhanced Voice Mail
3. Collaborate efficiently

4. What’s new in Flexibility and reliability?

• Continuous Availability
• Simplified Administration
• Flexible deployment of Exchange Server 2010

5. Explain the E-Mail Archiving feature in Compliance?

We can set email retention mail policy from end user level

Message expiration

We can search for individual or Multi user mailboxes from compliance officer perspective

6. Exchange the protection features in Exchange Server 2010?

Hub Transport Server provides

1. Automatically protect Messages with the centralized Rights Management Service
2. Automatic Content Based Protection
3. Transport rule action to apply template to E-Mail or Voice Mail
4. Support for scanning of attachment
5. Internet confidential and DO NOT Forward E-Mail Polices
6. Information Protection Cross PC, Web and Mobile devices

7. What are the Advanced Security features in Exchange Server 2007?

Exchange server 2010 comes up with the advance security feature of stopping malicious software and spam from enter into the message environment

1. We can have Forefront Security to have this advance security, which has
2. Multiple scan engines throughout the corporate infrastructure
3. Easy to use management console provides central configuration and operation

8. What’s New in Anywhere Access?

Manage inbox overload using enhanced conversation view and filtering the messages

Mail Tips – if no permission to send mail, popup will show mail tips to reduce NDRS

Can access Voice Mailbox with features like

1. Audio play back
2. Text preview
3. Quick option to add the user to contacts and phone number

Auto attend – we can manage auto attend, define personalized voice menu

9. What are the supportable clients for Exchange Server 2010?

Desktop – office 2007 and entourage MAC

WEB – OWA, OFFICE outlook web access, IE, Firefox and safari

Mobile – office outlook mobile, windows mobile, and Exchange active sync for third party’s

10. What are the outlook features now introduced to mobile devices?

1. Auto complete cache – used email address in OWA in cache will be shared mobile
2. Conversation view – if any change in messages on outlook that will be applied to Mobile
3. Contact to see the availability of the users
4. Voice Mail Preview – see voice mail
5. Send and receive text message in OWA and mobile
6. Admin can control which mobile devices can connect
7. Downloadable mobile devices

11. What is universal Inbox In OWA?

Its provides a solution to have one E-Mail inbox for E—Mail, Text messages and Voice messages

Can have multiple E-Mail accounts in one OWA window

12. What is federation?

Federation is new feature in Exchange server 2010 to share the company users calendars to the partners. A trust relationship to be made to have this feature

13. What is continuous availability feature in Exchange Server 2010?

In Exchange Server 2007, we have server to server failover scenarios, and we need to use failover clustering to configure the HA options which is very difficult to manage

In Exchange Server 2010, HA modified to Database level which provides quick recoverability in disk and database failures. We can have multiple database copies up to 16 mailbox copies in a database availability group. Admin have replicate mailbox copies up to 16 replicated copies. Capabilities of having CCR and SCR into single platform

14. Continuous availability in user level?

If a mailbox move is happening, the users will be stay online and there wont be be any discontinuity in sending or receiving mails

15. Explain the administration option in Exchange Server 2010?

Exchange Server 2010 provides simplified administration by providing options like

1. Compliance office can easily search for mailboxes
2. HR can easily update the user information
3. Help desk can easily manage mailbox quotas
4. User can easily track the status of the message easily
5. User can easily create own Distribution group
6. User can modify the contact information

16. What are the storage options supported in Exchange Server 2010?

Exchange Server 2010 can support the DAS and Also JBOD disks its because of the HA option depends only on the Database level