DRAG DROP
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Case Study: 3
Contoso Ltd
Overview
General Overview
Contoso, Ltd., is an aerospace engineering company that manufactures jet engine parts for
various industries and government agencies. Contoso has an Exchange Server 2013
organization. A partner company named Tailspin Toys has an Exchange Server 2010
organization.
Physical Locations
Contoso has two offices. The offices are located in Montreal and Chicago.
Each office contains a data center:
• The Montreal and Chicago offices connect to each other by using a direct WAN link.
• All connections to the Internet are routed through the Montreal office.
• Most of Contoso’s employees work from the Montreal office.
Existing Environment
The network of Contoso is configured as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
The network of Contoso contains the following components:
• Client computers that run either Microsoft Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010.
• Users who have a primary SMTP address that uses the contoso.com suffix.
• A retention policy that retains all email messages for 580 days and is associated to all users.
• Six servers that have Exchange Server installed. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.
• A data availability group (DAG) named DAG1 that contains all of the mailbox
servers. EX5 is configured as the witness server for DAG1. A file server in the Chicago
office is configured as an alternate witness server. DAG1 has Datacenter Activation
Coordination (DAC) mode enabled.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Contoso plans to implement the following changes:
• Implement an organization relationship between Contoso and Tailspin Toys.
• Move the mailboxes of all the members of the sales department to Office 365.
• Evaluate Unified Messaging (UM) by conducting a small pilot in the Montreal office.
Security Requirements
Contoso identifies the following security requirements:
• Ensure that the data in the Exchange Server databases cannot be read if a hard disk is
stolen.
• Prevent temporary employees from executing a Reply All or a Forward of any email
messages they receive.
• Prevent temporary contractors from changing the configurations of the user accounts
for the users in the research and development department.
• Ensure that all of the connections to Outlook Web App from the Internet use
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) protocols and Transport Layer Security (TLS)
protocols.
• Secure all of the email messages from the users at Tailspin Toys to the Contoso users.
Ensure that all of the messages can be secured if the certificates at Tailspin Toys are issued
by a trusted third-party certification authority (CA).
Auditing Requirements
Contoso identifies the following requirements for auditing mailboxes:
• The manager of the legal department must receive a daily report by email that
contains a record of all the eDiscovery mailbox searches.
• Any access to a mailbox by a service account must be excluded from the daily report.
Compliance Requirements
All of the email messages in the Sent Items folder of each user in the marketing department
of Contoso must be deleted automatically after 365 days.
Office 365 Coexistence Requirements
Contoso identifies the following Office 365 coexistence requirements:
• Office 365 users must be able to access their mailbox by using their Active Directory
user account in Contoso.
• On-premises users must be able to share free/busy information and calendar
information with the Office 365 users.
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The Montreal data center experiences a power failure. You need to ensure that all the users
can access their mailbox. Which three actions should you perform?
To answer, move the three appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area
and arrange them in the correct order.
Note:
Example:
Imagine that an outage has occurred in Datacenter-A and the decision to perform a
datacenter switchover has been made. Currently the two remaining Exchange servers are
online in Datacenter-B and the cluster is in a lost quorum state. Using the integrated
commands the administrator starts the switchover process by running stopdatabaseavailabilitygroup for the DAG members in Datacenter-A, as illustrated below.
Box 1:
Stop-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup –identity DAG –activeDirectorySite:Datacenter-A –
configurationOnly:$TRUEThe results of this command can be verified with get-databaseavailabilitygroup –identity
DAGNAME | fl name,StartedMailboxServers,StoppedMailboxServers. As expected, servers
in Datacenter-B remain on the started servers list while servers in Datacenter-A are on the
stopped servers list.
The administrator then stops the Cluster service on the surviving DAG members in
Datacenter-B in preparation for the restore-databaseavailabilitygroup command.
Box 2:
Stop-Service CLUSSVC <or> net stop CLUSSVC
Box 3:
The final step is to run restore-databaseavailabilitygroup. This task forces the Cluster
services online on the remaining DAG members, evicts the DAG members on the stopped
servers list, and configures the appropriate quorum model.
Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup –identity DAGNAME –activeDirectorySite:Datacenter-B
Reference: Datacenter Activation Coordination and the Prevention of Split Brain