1.3 Overview of the Exchange Administration Center
The initial view of the Exchange Administration Center is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Initial view of the Exchange Administration Center.
Some of the features of the Exchange Administration Center include the following:
• Cross-premises navigation—The
cross-premises navigation links in the upper-left corner of the EAC
allow administrators to administer a hybrid Exchange Server 2013
environment. Using these links, an administrator can easily switch
between administration of an on-premises Exchange Server 2013
environment and an Office 365 online environment.
• Left navigation—The
left navigation control contains the primary categories for most of the
administrative tasks that can be performed in the EAC. The left
navigation pane is structured similarly to the console tree from the
Exchange Management Console in Exchange Server 2010. However, in EAC,
the left navigation control is organized by feature areas instead of
server roles. The following list describes each of the items in the
left navigation pane:
• Recipients—The Recipients center provides access to manage mailboxes, groups, and contacts and perform mailbox migrations and moves.
• Permissions—The Permissions center provides access to manage administrator roles, user roles, and Outlook Web Access policies.
• Compliance Management—The
Compliance Management center provides access to manage all settings
related to Exchange compliance, including eDiscovery, in-place hold,
auditing, data loss prevention, retention policies, retention tags, and
journaling.
• Organization—The
Organization center provides access to manage tasks for the Exchange
organization, including federated sharing, Outlook apps, and address
lists.
• Protection—The Protection center provides access to manage anti-malware settings for the Exchange organization.
• Mail Flow—The
Mail Flow center provides access to manage mail flow rules, delivery
reports, accepted domains, email address policies, and Send/Receive
connectors.
• Mobile—The Mobile center provides access to manage mobile device access and policies for the Exchange organization.
• Public Folder—The
Public Folder center provides access to manage public folder settings.
This removes the need for the Public Folder Management Console, which
was used in Exchange Server 2010.
• Unified Messaging—The Unified Messaging center provides access to manage Unified Messaging dial plans and IP gateways.
• Servers—The
Servers center provides access to manage Mailbox and Client Access
servers, as well as databases, database availability groups, virtual
directories, and certificates.
• Hybrid—The
Hybrid center provides access to manage settings for a hybrid Exchange
Server 2013 environment with both on-premises and cloud-based
components.
• Tabs—The
Tabs area of the Exchange Administration Center provides a list of
secondary categories for each of the primary categories listed in the
left navigation center. When a primary task selection is made in the
left navigation center, the secondary task selections in the Tabs area
will change accordingly.
• Toolbar—The
Toolbar element is present on most tabs containing icons that perform a
specific action. Each tab has some subset of icons depending on the
available functions for that tab. The following list describes each of
the most common icons:
• New—The
Add icon is depicted by a + symbol and creates a new object. Some Add
icons have a down arrow where there are additional types of objects
that you can create. For example, in Recipients, Mailboxes, the Add
icon’s down arrow shows User Mailbox and Linked Mailbox as additional
options.
• Edit—The
Edit icon is depicted by a pencil and allows you to make changes to an
object’s settings. Select the object in the List view and then click
the Edit icon.
• Delete—The
Delete icon is depicted by a trash bin. Some Delete icons have a down
arrow where there are additional options. For example, in Recipients,
Mailboxes, the Delete icon’s down arrow shows Delete and Disable as
additional options.
• Search—The
Search icon is depicted by a magnifying glass. If you click the Search
icon, a search field will display and you can type the search phrase
for an object that you want to view.
• Refresh—The Refresh icon is depicted by circular arrows. Click the Refresh icon to refresh the List view.
• More—The
More icon is depicted by an ellipsis, or three dots. Click the More
icon to view more actions that you can perform for that tab’s objects.
For example, in Recipients, Mailboxes, the ellipsis shows Add/Remove
Columns, Export Data to a CSV File, Connect a Mailbox, and Advanced
Search.
• Up and down arrows—The
up arrow and down arrow allow you to move an object’s priority up or
down. For example, in Mail Flow, Email Address Policies, click the up
arrow to raise the priority of an email address policy.
• Copy—The
Copy icon is depicted by a dot and allows you to copy an object in
order to make changes to it without changing the original object. For
example, in Permissions, Admin Roles, select an admin role from the
List view and click Copy to create a new role group based on an
existing role group. After clicking the Copy icon, an additional window
appears where details can be entered for the new group.
• List view—The
List view in Exchange Administration Center has been designed to remove
limitations that existed in ECP. The viewable limit from within the EAC
List view is approximately 20,000 objects in on-premises and 10,000
objects in Exchange Online Preview. In addition, paging has been added
so that you can page to the results. In the Recipients list view, you
can also configure page size and export to a CSV file.
• Details pane—The
details pane allows the administrator to select an object in the List
view and to view information about that object. In some cases, like
with recipient objects, you can perform quick edit tasks. You can
identify the quick edit tasks by the blue links. For example, in
Recipients, Mailboxes, select a mailbox in the List view. In the
details pane, you can enable an archive for that mailbox. You can also
bulk edit quick tasks by holding down the Ctrl key and selecting
objects. Selecting multiple mailboxes allows you to bulk update users’
contact information, organizations, custom attributes, mailbox quotas,
Outlook Web App settings, and Post Office Protocol 3 (POP) and Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP) settings.
• Notifications—The
Exchange Administration Center includes a Notification viewer to allow
the administrator to view the status of long-running processes and
provides notifications when the process completes. In addition, for
particularly long-running processes, such as move requests, the
administrator can opt in to receive email notifications.
• Me tile and Help—The
Me tile allows the administrator to sign out of the Exchange
Administration Center and sign in as a different user. From the Help
drop-down menu, the following actions can be performed:
• Help—This selection displays online help for Exchange Server 2013.
• Disable Help bubble—The
Help bubble was a feature available in the Exchange Control Panel. The
Help bubble displays contextual help for fields when you create or edit
an object. You can turn off the Help bubble or turn it on if it has
been disabled.
• Performance console—Click this link to view the Performance console.
• Copyright—The Copyright link will display the legal information for Exchange Server 2013.
