Exchange Server 2003 Interview Questions and Answers - 6

1. What are the types of Exchange policies?

There are two types of Exchange policies:

1. Recipient policies


2. System policies

2. What is System Policy?

A system policy is a collection of configuration settings that you apply to one or more servers, mailbox stores, or public folder stores. For example, to enable storage limits for your mailbox stores, you can define a single policy and apply them to all mailbox stores in your administrative group.

3. What are the types of System Policies?

System policies are policies that control the configuration settings for Exchange server and information store objects. System policies reside in the System Policies container. You can create and apply three types of system policies:

1. Mailbox store policies


2. Public store policies


3. Server policies

4. What is Mailbox Store Policy?

Mail box store policies allow you to configure settings across mailbox stores. Like storage limits etc

5. What is Public folder store policy?

Public folder store policies allow you to configure settings across public folder stores. Like setting storage limits on public folder store or individual public folder

6. What is Server policy?

Server policies allow you to enable message tracking options on servers.

7. What is Recipient Policy?

Recipient policy is the quick and effective way of defining different email address for users in your organization

8. What are the types of Recipient Policies?

There are two types of Recipient policies, Mailbox Management policy and Email Address policy

9. What are the ways to apply mailbox storage limits?

We can create a Mailbox storage limits settings by

1. Setting storage limits on individual mailbox stores


2. Setting storage limits by using mailbox store policies

10. Does the mailbox store policy override any mailbox storage limits that have been directly configured on the mailbox stores?

Yes, the mailbox store policies override any mailbox storage limits that have been directly configured on the mailbox stores

11. Can we manually configure mailbox store limits directly on an individual mailbox if mailbox store policy is applied?

No we can’t do this. If we apply the mailbox store policy, the controls for individual user’s storage limits will be disabled like this figure



12. What is Email Addresses Policy?

Email Address Policy is to change the Email Address for a particular user or a group or the whole exchange organization.

This policy will be used when two companies are merging and they want to have different E-mail ID for some reasons

13. How to create the System Policy container?

First we have to enable the Display administrative group from the properties of Exchange organization

Point to the Administrative Group, right click and select new to create a New System policy container



14. How to create the Mailbox Store Policy, Public Folder Store Policy or Server Policy?

Create a system policy container on the Administrative group

Point to the system policy container, from here we can create a New Mailbox store policy, public folder policy or server policy



15. Which mailbox store properties can be controlled using mailbox store policy?

We can control the below properties

• Default offline Address list


• Default public folder


• Enable or disable SMIME setting


• Storage limits


• Deletion settings


• Database maintenance setting

16. Which public folder store properties can be controlled using public folder store policy?



We can also have control on

• Enable or disable SMIME setting


• Storage limits


• Deletion settings


• Database maintenance setting

17. Which server properties can be controlled using server policy?



We can control subject logging and message tracking in server policy properties window

18. How to access the Recipient Policies?

On the Exchange System Manager, point to the recipient container and from there point to Recipient policies



19. Which options are available with Mailbox Manager Settings (Policy)?

Following figure shows the available options for Mailbox Manager setting policy



20. How to remove the system policy from an object?

After the mailbox store policy is applied to the mailbox stores, you can no longer use the property pages of the object to modify the settings controlled by the policy. To change the settings on the object, you must either modify the policy or remove the policy.

To remove the mailbox store policy from a mailbox store:

1. Use Exchange System Manager and navigate to the system policy object in the system policy container.


2. In the properties of the system policy object, right-click the object that you want to remove from the system policy.


3. Select “Remove from policy”

Removing a system policy from an object doesn’t remove the applied settings to the object. To override a mailbox store policy, you can override policy settings manually on each mailbox or move the users to a different mailbox store that has the other settings applied to it.