1. What are Address lists?
A list used to organize the Global
Address list into small, more manageable grouping. Address list in Microsoft
Exchange server 2003 are formed through administrator-defined Light weight
Directory Access Protocol queries
2. What is Global Address List
(GAL)?
Global Address List is the Primary
Address list that contains all Exchange objects in the entire organization and
mail-enabled objects in the Microsoft Exchange server organization
3. Where from the GAL retrieved?
Global address list are formed
through LDAP queries that filters the Mailbox enabled and mail enabled objects
from the Active Directory. The GAL retrieved from the Global catalog servers.
4. How default GAL is created?
When we are installing exchange
server 2003, the default address list are created by sending LDAP queries to
Active directory users and groups and filters the users that are mailbox
enabled and mail enabled.
What is Custom Address list?
Custom address list are the address
list that we are creating by providing LDAP queries that filter and display the
Address list with respect to users or departments
5. What is Default Address list?
Default Address list are similar to Global Address List, but in a distilled manner.
Default Address list are similar to Global Address List, but in a distilled manner.
The default address lists are
automatically created when Exchange Server is installed and there is no
administration required.
6. What are the Default Address
lists?
There are five Default Address
lists. Following are the default address lists
- All contacts
- All groups
- All users
- Public folders
- Default Global Address List
7. What is Offline Address List?
Offline Address list are not unique,
that is they are not different address list than the regular online address
list. Offline Address list are used to make address list available to the users
who are all not connected to network.
By default, Global address list is
made to be default Offline Address List
8. What is the use of hiding a
mailbox?
Hiding a mailbox is to prevent the
E-mail address to appear in Global address List. If you are creating a mailbox
to receive updates form antivirus and you don’t want to show the Email address
in GAL or preventing internal users to send any mail to that particular mailbox
from GAL
9. Where all the Exchange Address
lists created and stored?
Exchange Address lists are created
and stored in Active Directory container
10. What needs to be done so that
the users on a mailbox store to be able to use an offline address list?
We have to assign a offline address
list to a mailbox store on the properties of the Mailbox store
11. How to associate an offline
address list to their mailbox store?
Right click a mailbox store, go to
properties, browse next to offline address list, select the offline address
list that u want to assign to the mailbox store. Click ok to apply the offline
address list to mailbox store
12. How many GAL can appear in
user’s Outlook Address book?
Only one GAL appears in users
outlook address Book
13. How to view the address list
preview?
Right click an address list from the
address list container, go the properties of the address list and select
preview
14. How to create additional Global
Address List?
Start Exchange system manger, expand
the recipient container, right click the all global address list and point to
new global address list
15. How to create Custom Address
list?
- Start Exchange system manger,
- Expand the recipient container, right click all Address
list, point to new and then click Address list
- For the custom Address list type a name, click filter
rules and then click advance tab
- From the field menu point to users and then department
- On the condition field, select is exactly from the menu
- Give the custom name, click add
- Click ok and click finish
16. What is the difference between
additional Global Address List and Custom Address List?
Global Address list contains the
full address list for the Exchange organization and the Custom address list are
the address list that are created respect to that of our requirement
17. How to create a new offline
address list?
- Right click the Address list from the recipient
container, point to new and then click offline address list
- Type a name for the new offline Address list and then
click browse to select a server to host the offline Address list
- After clicking next remove the default Global Address
list form the list and if u want to add a particular address list add it
to the list
- Click next and click finish
18. How to hide a User address from
address list?
Go to active directory user and
computers,
Go to the properties of the user
that you want to hide from Address list. Navigate to Exchange Advanced Tab
Select the option to hide from
Address list
19. How to hide Address list from
users
Go to the properties of the Address
list, point to security tab and select advanced button to open the advanced
setting
Browse the users or group and set
deny permission to open the Address list
20. Which service is responsible for
keeping the Exchange address lists up to date?
Recipient Update service is
responsible for keeping the exchange Address list up to date
21. What is Recipient Update
Service?
Recipient update service updates the
email address and distribution list membership and replicates this information
on a schedule to other Microsoft Exchange Servers in the Domain
22. Besides keeping the Exchange
address lists up to date, what other desirable function does the Recipient
Update Service perform in the Exchange organization?
It also updates the distribution
list membership to other Exchange Servers inside the domain
23. What are the basic steps to
troubleshoot RUS?
The first step in troubleshooting
the Recipient Update Service, like most other services is to check the Event
Log, we are looking for the events that originated from the MSExchangeAL
service.
The next step in troubleshooting the
Recipient Update Service is to use ADSI Edit to check a mailbox that should
appear in the Global Address List. We need to check and see if the
"showInAddressBook" attribute is populated
If the "showInAddressBook"
attribute is not populated, the Recipient Update Service may not yet have run,
in most cases manually forcing the Recipient Update Service to run will resolve
the problems.
24. How to access the RUS?
2. On the Start menu, point
to Programs,
3. point to Microsoft Exchange,
then click System Manager.
4. In the console tree, double-click
Recipients.
5. In the console tree, right-click
Recipient Update Services,
25. What is the default
preconfigured schedule for RUS?
Always Run schedule is the
preconfigured option for RUS
26. Which two different instances
are created of the Recipient Update Service?
The following are the two instances
created in Recipient Update service
Recipient Update Service (Enterprise
Configuration)
Recipient Update Service (Active
Directory Domain)
27. What is Recipient Update Service
(Enterprise Configuration)?
The Enterprise recipient update
service is responsible for updating Email address of the recipients objects
located in configuration partition of the domain controller
28. What is Recipient Update Service
(Active Directory Domain)?
The Domain Recipient Update Service
is responsible for updating recipient objects located in the Active directory
29. What are the group types?
Two types of groups are the
- Security Group
- Distribution Group
30. What is Distribution Group?
A type of Microsoft Windows Server
2003 Active Directory group that is used to define e-mail distribution lists.
Distribution Group has no security context and cannot be used to grant
permission to resources, but they are useful for grouping users that share a
common purpose, such as all employees at a branch location
31. How Distribution groups differ
from Security groups?
Distribution Group has no security
context and cannot be used to grant permission to resources. But security
groups can be used to assign permission on resources.
32. What is Security Group?
Security groups are the Microsoft
windows Server 2003 Active Directory Group, with this group; we can assign
permission on a resource.
33. Can Security groups be used to
distribute messages?
Security Groups can be mail enabled
and also used as a Distribution group to distribute messages
34. What is Query-based distribution
group?
This group enables you to use a LDAP
query to specify membership in a distribution group dynamically. This result is
that membership is automatically determined by attributes of a user account,
such as department, reducing the amount of administration required to manage
distribution list
35. What are the types of Group
Scopes?
Following are the types of group scopes
Following are the types of group scopes
- Domain Local
- Global Group
- Universal