Edward Van Biljon - Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Administration Guide

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Edward van Biljon is an experienced Exchange specialist, who, for the past 17 years, has been working with customers on all levels of Exchange, and helping them design solutions for their environments, and also migrating Exchange on premise to the Cloud.

He has also worked for Microsoft in the PFE space and for big corporates, and has been awarded the Office Apps and Services MVP award for the last 4 years.

Edward has been writing articles/blogs on his own blog, but also for Experts Exchange, TechGenix, and other companies.

Outside of work, Edward spends a lot of his time on the Technet Forums, 3rd party forums, and blogs, answering questions and writing articles to assist others in the Technical space.

Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh is a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Data Center Management, Azure, and M365 Consultant and System Administrator. He has an engineers degree in Information Technology, with more than 8 years of experience in Microsoft technologies and Cloud Infrastructure Administration. He has in-depth knowledge and work experience in Windows-based and Linux systems, Cloud technologies, Storages, Network devices, and infrastructure management. Since he was involved in the world of Information Technology, he is interested mostly in Microsoft technologies, and the world that they're going to create in the Cloud in the future. He has studied documents, articles, and always followed the news in most of the IT related websites. The Exchange mail service from Microsoft has not been an exception, and he has tried to get to know the technology, trouble shooting steps, and best practice configuration, which is available by gaining experiences in hands-on practice projects; although this has not been just for Exchange, this method also covers for all the services that he has been working with in the Microsoft field.

I would like to thank a few people for their support throughout my career. I would like to thank my wife for standing by me, all these years that I have been studying to get to where I am today, and for always pushing me to be my best! To my family and friends, thank you for all your love and support and constantly checking in to see how I am doing and motivating me to continue.

To JJ Milner, who is a true leader and who motivates and pushes you to do your best all the time. I would also like to mention Bernard Kur, if he were a General, I would love to serve under his team. Thank you for always being there as a friend, but also as a mentor; your love and passion for people is just amazing.

Thank you to BPB for allowing me to write this book and thank you for your support.

Exchange 2019, one of the flagship Exchange versions out there has changed the game for how you not only manage your server, but also how email systems and delivery has improved.

Afterslimming down the roles to just 2 in Exchange 2019, it now only consists of Mailbox role, and everything else is now a service, like your Hub Transport, Client Access Service, unified messaging, etc. The Edge role is still available in this version and can be used in your DMZ.

Exchange 2019 has also evolved, and going back to versions you could virtualize your servers, but the way underlying hypervisors handle these servers, it just shows you the effort that is put into a product.

From a security perspective, Microsoft isputting everything into ensuring the security of Exchange 2019. If they find something, then a patch is released to ensure that the specific problem in question is addressed. Many Admins dont feel the need to upgrade as they are on a version that works;however, they still introduce risk into the environment.

Installation of Exchange 2019 is not difficult at all. Once all the prerequisites are done, you can do your installation unattended, using the GUI or script it, like some MVPs have done. Scripting makes everything easier, as everything is covered from start to finish in a single script.

The primary goal of this book is to teach you about Exchange 2019, how to deploy a new server or coexistence with Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013. This book contains sample scripts, how to create a DAG or a mailbox database, how to perform mailbox moves, etc.

By going throughthe 10 chapters in this book, you will learn the following:

Introduction to Exchange 2019 and understanding how things work, and what has changed from legacy versions to getting your server ready for installation.

Finally, the chapter alsodiscusses installing Exchange 2019 using the unattended method and the GUI method.