Topic 3, Redbridge Associates
Company Background
Redbridge Associates in a legal services company based in USA. The company has 2000
employees in two offices. One office is in Atlanta and the other office is in Chicago.
The Atlanta office is the corporate headquarters. 200 employees spend most of their time away
from the office visiting customers.
The company has recently deployed Microsoft Exchange 2013. You have been hired by the
company to resolve some issues in the new Exchange organization.
Existing Environment
Existing Active Directory Environment
The network consists of a single Active Directory domain named RedbridgeAssociates.com.
Each office is configured as a separate Active Directory site.
The offices have servers running either Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012.
All domain controllers are configured as DNS Servers and Global Catalog servers. The forest level
FSMO roles are on a domain controller in the Atlanta office.
All client computers in both offices run Windows 8 Pro. Most users also have Windows Phone
devices and use ActiveSync to connect to the Exchange organization.
Network Infrastructure
Each office has a high speed Internet connection and the two offices are connected by a
dedicated fast WAN link.
Exchange Infrastructure
The Exchange organization consists of the following servers in Atlanta:
Server Name
Operating System
Server Role
ExSrv1
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
ExSrv2
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
ExSrv3
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
The Exchange organization consists of the following servers in Chicago:
Server Name
Operating System
Server Role
ExSrv4
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
ExSrv5
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
ExSrv6
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox Server
Client Access Server
A mail appliance in each office is used to route all inbound and outbound email for the
RedbridgeAssociates.com domain.
Planned Changes
You plan to create Database Availability Groups (DAGs) in each office.
A DAG named Atlanta-DAG will contain the three Exchange servers in the Atlanta office and a
DAG named Chicago-DAG will contain the three Exchange servers in the Chicago office.
Each DAG will contain two networks: a network named DNET1 dedicated to DAG replication and a
network named DNET2 dedicated to client access for users.
A hardware based load balancer will be deployed in both the Atlanta and Chicago offices.
The mail appliance will be replaced due to recent reliability issues.
Business Requirements
Redbridge Associates has recently started working with another legal firm named Bluetown Legal
Co. The two companies will be exchanging sensitive information. A security policy states that
emails sent between the two companies must be secured and encrypted using Domain Security.
The Marketing Director states, “The company needs more of a social media presence. For this
reason, we plan to deploy an Outlook App that integrates with social media sites to all users in the
Marketing department.”
Problem Statements
Redbridge Associates has listed the following reported problems:
When new mailboxes are created in the Atlanta office, it can be several hours before the new
user appears in the Global Address List (GAL) in the Chicago office.
During a recent 24-hour outage of the WAN connection, users in the Chicago office reported that
when using Outlook Web App, they could only see new users in the Global Address List (GAL).
Users report that sometimes they are unable to retrieve Autodiscover settings.
Users report that sometimes they are unable to access the free/busy information of other users.
Some Atlanta users report that incomplete results are returned when searching within Outlook Web App.
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You need to resolve the issues with accessing free/busy information and Autodiscover settings.
Which of the following commands should you run?
A.
Set-ClientAccessServer –AutodiscoverServiceInternalURI
https://autodiscover.redbridgeassociates.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml.
B.
Set-Autodiscovervirtualdirectory –AutodiscoverServiceInternalURI
https://autodiscover.redbridgeassociates.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml.
C.
Set-ClientAccessServer –External
https://autodiscover.redbridgeassociates.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml.
D.
Set-AvailabilityConfig –Internal
https://autodiscover.redbridgeassociates.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml.
Explanation: