Deploying Messaging Solutions With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

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The following are questions from MeasureUp's Practice Test for the Microsoft exam 70-238: Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

The audience for this exam includes individuals who are responsible for deploying and supporting Exchange Server. Experience using the management tools for Exchange Server, Active Directory and Microsoft Office SharePoint will help you prepare for this exam. By passing exam 70-238, you earn credit toward the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Enterprise Messaging Administrator certification.
 

Objective: Plan Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 upgrades and migrations.
Sub-objective: Plan interoperability with Exchange in separate organizations.

Multiple answers, multiple-choice

You are a messaging engineer. Your company has an Exchange Server 2007 organization in the stayandsleep.com domain. Users all use Outlook 2007 to access their e-mail. Exchange is configured to support scheduling meeting rooms and other resources.

Your company acquires BCD Train. The network at BCD Train is configured as an Active Directory forest with two domains. BCD Train also has an Exchange 2007 organization. Users all use Outlook 2007 to access their e-mail.

The company plans to keep two separate forests at least for the next year. Users in both organizations must have access to global address lists (GALs) for each location and must be able to schedule meeting rooms and resources in either forest. You plan to use Basic authentication over Transport Layer Security (TLS). You need to configure cross-forest connectivity. What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

A.    Create a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) Send connector in each forest.
B.    Install Microsoft Identity Integration Service 2003 on a member server in each forest.
C.    Create a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) Receive connector in each forest.
D.    Install the Microsoft Exchange Inter-Organization Replication tool in each forest.
E.    Use Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM) Feature Pack 1 to create a management agent in each forest.
F.    Enable the Availability service in each forest.

Answer:
A, E, F

Tutorial:
You should create an SMTP Send connector in each forest. You need to configure an SMTP Send connector to allow a Hub Transport server in one organization to send e-mail to an Exchange server in another organization.

You should also use ILM Feature Pack 1 to create a management agent in each forest. You need to create a GALSync management agent and enable GALSync to synchronize GAL information between organizations. ILM Feature Pack 1 automatically provisions mail-enabled users and contacts and using the Update-Recipient cmdlet. The ILM GALSync management agent also provides synchronization for resources, such as meeting rooms.

You should also enable the Availability service in each forest. The Availability service allows Outlook 2007 clients to retrieve free and busy information.

You should not install MIIS 2003 on a member server in each forest. Although MIIS 2003 can provide GAL synchronization for Exchange 2007, you would need to manually provision the Exchange 2007 users. Also, it does not provide synchronization for meeting rooms and other resources.

You should not create an SMTP Receive connector in each forest. You need to create an SMTP Send connector, but not an SMTP Receive connector when you are using Basic authentication or Basic authentication over TLS. You only need to create a Receive connector if you are using external authentication — for example, if you are using IPsec to secure the connection.

You should not install the Microsoft Exchange Inter-Organization Replication tool in each forest. This tool is used when you need to make free/busy information available to users who are using earlier versions of Outlook, or if you need to make public folders available across organizations.

Reference:
How to Deploy Exchange 2007 in a Cross-Forest Topology
Microsoft TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998597.aspx

Objective: Plan for high availability implementation.
Sub-objective: Plan a recovery solution implementation.

Single answer, multiple-choice

You are a messaging engineer. Your messaging environment consists of one Mailbox server, one Client Access Server and one Hub Transport server. Mailboxes are located on a single storage group with two databases: ExecMB and EmployeesMB. You perform a weekly full backup and a nightly incremental backup.

The ExecMB database becomes corrupt. You need to restore messaging services to users with mailboxes in the ExecMB database as quickly as possible. What should you do?

A.    Create a dial-tone database on a new server. Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the recovery storage group. Merge data from the dial-tone database to the recovered database.
B.    Create a dial-tone database on the Mailbox server. Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the recovery storage group. Swap the dial-tone database with the recovered database. Merge data from the dial-tone database to the recovered database.
C.    Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the recovery storage group. Create a new database in the existing storage group. Move the mailboxes from the recovery storage group to the new database.
D.    Create a dial-tone database in the existing storage group. Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the dial-tone database.

Answer:
B

Tutorial:
You should perform the following steps:

•    Create a dial-tone database on the Mailbox server.
•    Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the recovery storage group.
•    Swap the dial-tone database with the recovered database.
•    Merge data from the dial-tone database to the recovered database.

Creating a dial-tone database allows the users to send and receive e-mail while the database data is being restored from backup. Because the server is still functional, the simplest way to recover is to create the dial-tone database on the Mailbox server. Next, you can restore the mailboxes to the recovery storage group. After the data has been restored, you should swap the dial-tone database with the recovered database so users have access to old messages. Finally, you should merge the messages that were sent and received during the recovery process from the dial-tone database to the recovered database.

You should not perform the following steps:

•    Create a dial-tone database a new server.
•    Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the recovery storage group.
•    Merge data from the dial-tone database to the recovered database.

Although you can create a dial-tone database on a different server, it will take longer to restore messaging services because you will need to move the mailboxes to the new database. Also, you cannot merge data from the dial-tone database to the recovered database because users cannot send and receive mail from a mailbox located in a database in the recovery storage group. You could merge the database in the recovery storage group with the dial-tone database. However, this would take significantly longer than swapping the dial-tone and recovered databases first so that the dial-tone database was in the recovery storage group, and then merging it with the restored database.