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Exchange Server primarily uses a proprietary protocol called MAPI to talk to email clients, but subsequently added support for POP3, IMAP, and EAS. The standard SMTP protocol is used to communicate to other Internet mail servers.
Exchange Server Enterprise Edition supports clustering of up to 4 nodes when using Windows 2000 Server, and up to 8 nodes with Windows Server 2003. Exchange Server 2003 also introduced active-active clustering, but for two-node clusters only. In this setup, both servers in the cluster are allowed to be active simultaneously. This is opposed to Exchange's more common active-passive mode in which the failover servers in any cluster node cannot be used at all while their corresponding home servers are active. They must wait, inactive, for the home servers in the node to fail. Subsequent performance issues with active-active mode have led Microsoft to recommend that it should no longer be used.[5] In fact, support for active-active mode clustering has been discontinued with Exchange Server 2007.
Exchange's clustering (active-active or active-passive mode) has been criticized because of its requirement for servers in the cluster nodes to share the same data. The clustering in Exchange Server provides redundancy for Exchange Server as an application, but not for Exchange data.[6] In this scenario, the data can be regarded as a single point of failure, despite Microsoft's description of this set-up as a "Shared Nothing" model.[7] This void has however been filled by ISVs and storage manufacturers, through "site resilience" solutions, such as geo-clustering and asynchronous data replication.[8] Exchange Server 2007 introduces new cluster terminology and configurations that address the shortcomings of the previous "shared data model".[9]
In November 2007, Microsoft released SP1 for Exchange Server 2007. This service pack includes an additional high-availability feature called SCR (Standby Continuous Replication). Unlike CCR, which requires that both servers belong to a Windows cluster typically residing in the same datacenter, SCR can replicate data to a non-clustered server, located in a separate datacenter.
With Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft introduced the concept of the Database Availability Group (DAG). A DAG contains Mailbox servers that become members of the DAG. Once a Mailbox server is a member of a DAG, the Mailbox Databases on that server can be copied to other members of the DAG. When a Mailbox server is added to a DAG, the Failover Clustering Windows role is installed on the server and all required clustering resources are created.
Like Windows Server products, Exchange Server requires client access licenses, which are different from Windows CALs. Corporate license agreements, such as the Enterprise Agreement, or EA, include Exchange Server CALs. It also comes as part of the Core CAL. Just like Windows Server and other server products from Microsoft, there is the choice to use User CALs or Device CALs. Device CALs are assigned to devices (workstation, laptop or PDA), which may be used by one or more users.[12] User CALs, are assigned to users, allowing them to access Exchange from any device. User and Device CALs have the same price, however, they cannot be used interchangeably.
Microsoft Exchange Server uses a proprietary remote procedure call (RPC) protocol called MAPI/RPC,[13] which was designed to be used by Microsoft Outlook. Clients capable of using the proprietary features of Exchange Server include Evolution,[14] Hiri and Microsoft Outlook. Thunderbird can access Exchange server via the Owl Plugin.[15]
E-mail hosted on an Exchange Server can also be accessed using POP3, and IMAP4 protocols, using clients such as Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Lotus Notes. These protocols must be enabled on the server. Exchange Server mailboxes can also be accessed through a web browser, using Outlook Web App (OWA). Exchange Server 2003 also featured a version of OWA for mobile devices, called Outlook Mobile Access (OMA).
Support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) was added to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. It allows a compliant device such as a Windows Mobile device or smartphone to securely synchronize mail, contacts and other data directly with an Exchange server and has become a popular mobile access standard for businesses due to support from companies like Nokia and Apple Inc.[17] as well as its device security and compliance features.
The complexities of managing Exchange Server -- namely running both one or more Exchange Servers, plus Active Directory synchronization servers -- make it attractive for organisations to purchase it as a hosted service.
Hybrid tools can cover the main stack of Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Windows, and Active Directory servers, in addition to using replica data to report cloud user experience.[citation needed]
In February 2020, an ASP.NET vulnerability was discovered and exploited relying on a default setting allowing attackers to run arbitrary code with system privileges, only requiring a connection to the server as well as being logged into any user account which can be done through credential stuffing.[26][27]
The exploit relied on all versions of Microsoft Exchange using the same static validation key to decrypt, encrypt, and validate the 'View State' by default on all installations of the software and all versions of it, where the View State is used to temporarily preserve changes to an individual page as information is sent to the server. The default validation key used is therefore public knowledge, and so when this is used the validation key can be used to decrypt and falsely verify a modified View State containing commands added by an attacker.[26][27]
When logged in as any user, any .ASPX page is then loaded, and by requesting both the session ID of the user login and the correct View State directly from the server, this correct View State can be deserialised and then modified to also include arbitrary code and then be falsely verified by the attacker. This modified View State is then serialised and passed back to the server in a GET request along with the session ID to show it is from a logged-in user; in legitimate use, the view state should always be returned in a POST request, and never a GET request. This combination causes the server to decrypt and run this added code with its own privileges, allowing the server to be fully compromised as any command can therefore be run.[26][27]
Exchange Server relies on a central server that configures users' accounts. Organizations can opt to maintain their own Exchange server or have Microsoft manage it through a cloud-based Microsoft 365 account.
Exchange Server uses Exchange ActiveSync to sync email, calendar and other Outlook data between end-user clients and the central server, one of its most important functions. However, organizations can also choose to manage their email using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), which, like ActiveSync, syncs email between clients and server, or Post Office Protocol 3, which downloads email from the server without maintaining synchronization between devices.
Outlook is also available as a web-based application, called Outlook on the web. It lets users access and interact with messages from different web browsers and link and share documents stored in OneDrive for Business in an on-premises SharePoint server. This creates a simpler and more direct way for end users to save and attach files to emails.
The 2019 release provides significantly faster and more reliable failover between servers. It was designed to improve overall performance and take advantage of the latest storage hardware, including larger disks and solid-state drives.
Exchange Server has several important features to maintain resilience and HA. The Exchange mailbox server components rely on database availability groups (DAGs). Client access server components rely on load balancing.
The DAG is a group of up to 16 Exchange servers that automatically copies databases between members to provide redundancy in the event of a failure at either the database or the server level. Any server in a DAG can host a copy of a database from any other server in the DAG. Once a copy of a database is added to another server, that copy is automatically kept up to date and ready to activate at any time.
Active Manager (AM) is the Exchange component that is responsible for managing failover events within an Exchange environment. AM runs in the Microsoft Exchange Replication service on all Exchange 2016 servers. When an Exchange server is joined to a DAG, two AM roles are run on that server: Primary AM (PAM) and Standby AM (SAM).
The DAG member server that owns the cluster quorum resource holds the PAM role. If the DAG node holding the quorum resource fails, the PAM role moves to the server that takes ownership of the quorum resource.
SAM is responsible for providing information about which database copy is currently active to the other Exchange components that are running AM clients. SAM detects when a database fails and asks PAM to initiate the failover event. SAM isn't responsible for selecting which copy of the database is activated after a failure. That process is called best copy and server selection (BCSS).
There is some additional logic in this process if the failover event is triggered by a log monitoring event. The additional logic ensures that the server taking over the active database is in better health than the server it came from.
When a DAG has an even number of nodes, it uses the Node & File Share Majority quorum mode. In this mode, an external witness server acts as the tiebreaker. Each DAG node member gets a single vote, but the witness server gives one of the DAG nodes an additional vote. The cluster quorum data is stored on each member's local system disk, but the witness server has a separate file that points to one DAG member as the most updated copy of the DAG cluster quorum data.
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