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Exchange

Hosted Exchange 2013

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Almost two years ago I wrote a couple of blog posts regarding Hosted Exchange 2010 SP2 (or later):

When building Hosted Exchange 2013 things are not very different. You have to prepare Active Directory for hosting purposes and set the permissions in Active Directory on OU level. When it comes to Exchange 2013 itself, address list segregation is still achieved by using Address Book Policies. One thing that is fundamentally different is SMTP routing in a hosted Exchange. In Exchange 2010 3rd party Routing Agents were used, but in Exchange 2013 there’s an Address Book Policy Routing agent that respects the Address Book Policies that are provisioned for every tenant. Continue reading Hosted Exchange 2013 →

Exchange

Building Hosted Exchange 2010 – Part I

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There’s quite a lot of demand in the market to build a hosting environment (multi tenant) based on Exchange 2010. In the past there was hosted Exchange (in Exchange 2003) and Address List Segregation (Exchange 2007) and the /Hosting option in Exchange Server 2010. The latter is no longer recommended by Microsoft and Microsoft now recommends to use an Enterprise deployment of Exchange Server 2010 SP2, combined with Address Book Policies (ABP) and a 3rd party Control Panel providing the ‘glue’ to get the various parts together.

Microsoft released a number of articles and whitepapers on the future of Exchange hosting and some guidance documents regarding building a hosting environment and migrating from an old platform to a new (Exchange 2010 SP2) platform: Continue reading Building Hosted Exchange 2010 – Part I →