Deploying Messaging Solutions With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

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You should not perform the following steps:
•    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.

These steps will not allow users to begin sending and receiving e-mail until after restore is complete.

You should not perform the following steps:

•    Create a dial-tone database in the existing storage group.
•    Restore the ExecMB mailboxes to the dial-tone database.

This would be the same as restoring the database directly from the backup. Users would not get access to their mailboxes until the restore was complete and the database remounted. This does not restore messaging to users as quickly as possible.

References:
How to Perform a Dial Tone Recovery on an Exchange 2007 Server with a Failed Database
Microsoft TechNet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310773.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310765.aspx

Objective: Plan messaging security and compliance implementation.
Sub-objective: Plan the anti-virus and anti-spam implementation.

Single answer, multiple-choice

You are a messaging engineer. Your company has an Exchange Server 2007 organization. An Edge Transport server is located on the perimeter network. It is configured to provide anti-spam filtering using the safe sender agent.

A user receives a virus transmitted inside a .zip file. The virus is a .vbs script. You need to implement a solution that meets the following requirements:

•    Messages should be screened for .vbs attachments, even if they are enclosed in a .zip file.
•    Messages that have potential harmful attachments must not be sent to a user.
•    Users should be notified if someone attempts to send them a message with a potentially harmful attachment.

You need to configure Exchange to meet the requirements. What should you do?

A.    Configure an attachment filter that quarantines .vbs attachments.
B.    Configure an attachment filter that blocks .vbs and .zip attachments.
C.    Implement attachment filtering using Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
D.    Configure an attachment filter that strips .vbs attachments.

Answer:
C

Tutorial:
You should implement attachment filtering using Forefront Security for Exchange Server. Forefront Security includes a file filter that can examine the contents of compressed files, such as .zip files. The standard attachment filter included with the Edge Transport server does not include this capability.

You should not configure an attachment filter that quarantines .vbs attachments. The standard attachment filter included with the Edge Transport server does not include the ability to quarantine attachments. If you need to quarantine attachments, you will need to install and configure Forefront Security for Exchange Server.

You should not configure an attachment filter that blocks .vbs and .zip attachments. If you create a filter that blocks .vbs attachments, users will not be notified if an e-mail that contains a blocked attachment was received. Also, if the filter is configured to block .zip attachments, all .zip files will be blocked, including legitimate files.

You should not configure an attachment filter that strips .vbs attachments. Doing so would meet all requirements except the ability to screen messages for compressed .vbs files. For that, you need Forefront Security for Exchange Server.

Reference:
Attachment Filtering
Microsoft TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124399.aspx

Objective: Plan the Exchange topology deployment.
Sub-objective: Plan the deployment of required Exchange services.

Single answer, multiple choice

You are a messaging engineer. Your Exchange organization has an Edge Transport server named EX-ET and a server named EX01 that hosts the Hub Transport, Client Access and Mailbox server roles. An EdgeSync subscription exists between EX-ET and EX01.

Mail sent from outside the Exchange organization is currently addressed to stayandsleep.com. Your company is changing its name. Future e-mail should be sent to bcdtrain.com. You need to configure Exchange to receive mail sent to bcdtrain.com.

What should you do?

A.    Execute the following on EX01: New-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -DomainType Authoritative.
B.    Execute the following on EX-ET: New-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -DomainType InternalRelay.
C.    Execute the following on EX01: Set-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -MakeDefault true.
D.    Execute the following on EX-ET: Set-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -MakeDefault true.

Answer:
A

Tutorial:
You should execute the following on EX01:

New-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -DomainType Authoritative

You need to add bcdtrain.com as an accepted domain. To do so, you must execute New-AcceptedDomain on the Hub Transport server. You should set the DomainType to Authoritative because e-mail addressed to that domain is stored in a Mailbox server within the organization.

You should not execute the following on EX-ET:

New-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -DomainType InternalRelay

You should not execute New-AcceptedDomain on the Edge Transport server. The accepted domain is stored in Active Directory. Therefore, you should execute New-AcceptedDomain on a Hub Transport server and allow the configuration to replicate through the EdgeSync subscription. Also, the domain type should be set to Authoritative, not InternalRelay. You set the domain type to InternalRelay if you want mail addressed to that domain to be treated as internal mail, but routed to an external SMTP server.

You should not execute the following on EX01 or EX-ET:

Set-AcceptedDomain -Name "bcdtrain" -DomainName bcdtrain.com -MakeDefault true

You need to add the accepted domain before you can set it to be the default domain. Also, you would execute Set-AcceptedDomain on the Hub Transport server, not on the Edge Transport server.

References:
How to Configure Authoritative Domains on the Edge Transport Server Role
Microsoft TechNet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997592.aspx

New-AcceptedDomain
Microsoft TechNet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995975.aspx

Objective: Plan for Messaging Environment Maintenance.
Sub-objective: Plan for monitoring and reporting.

Single answer, multiple-choice

You are a messaging engineer. Your company has an Exchange Server 2003 organization. You use Microsoft Operations Management (MOM) 2005 to monitor the Exchange Servers and produce reports on various services. MOM is configured to send e-mail alerts to several different members of the IT staff.