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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 : Accessing and using Exchange Admin Center (part 1) - Accessing Exchange Admin Center

2/9/2014 1:00:48 AM

Exchange Admin Center is a browser-based application designed for managing on-premises, online, and hybrid Exchange organizations. You access Exchange Admin Center through the Client Access servers deployed in your Exchange organization. Although the application can be configured with an internal access URL and an external access URL, only an internal access URL is configured by default. This means that by default you can access Exchange Admin Center only when you are on the corporate network.

1. Accessing Exchange Admin Center

Exchange Admin Center is designed to be used with many operating systems and browsers. However, to ensure all features are available you should use Exchange Admin Center only with the following browser and operating system combinations:

  • For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 use Internet Explorer 9 or later, Firefox 17 or later, or Chrome 24 or later.

  • For Windows 8 or later and Windows Server 2012 RTM or R2 use Internet Explorer 10 or later, Firefox 17 or later, or Chrome 24 or later.

  • For Mac OS X 10.5 or later use Firefox 17 or later, Safari 6 or later, or Chrome 24 or later.

  • For Linux use Firefox 17 or later, or Chrome 24 or later.

Although Exchange Admin Center replaces Exchange Management Console and Exchange Control Panel (ECP), ECP continues to be the name for the related virtual directory. You access Exchange Admin Center by following these steps:

  1. Open your web browser and enter the secure URL for Exchange Admin Center. If you are outside the corporate network, enter the external URL, such as https://mail.cpandl.com/ecp. If you are inside the corporate network, enter the internal URL, such as https://mailserver48/ecp.

    The version of Exchange Admin Center you see depends on the version of Exchange running on the Mailbox server hosting your personal mailbox. Exchange 2010 runs version 14, and you can specify this version explicitly by appending ?ExchClientVer=14 to the internal or external URL.

    Exchange 2013 runs version 15, and you can specify this version explicitly by appending ?ExchClientVer=15 to the internal or external URL. For example, if your external URL is https://mail.pocket-consultant.com, you could enter https://mail.pocket-consultant.com/ecp?ExchClientVer=15 as the URL.

    Note

    By default, you must use HTTPS to connect. If you don’t, you’ll see an error stating “Access is denied.” Using HTTPS ensures data transmitted between the client browser and the server is encrypted and secured.

  2. If your browser displays a security alert stating there’s a problem with the site’s security certificate or that the connection is untrusted, proceed anyway. This alert is displayed because the browser does not trust the self-signed certificate that was automatically created when the Exchange server was installed.

    • With Internet Explorer, the error states “There’s a problem with this website’s security certificate.” Proceed by selecting the Continue To This Web Site (Not Recommended) link.

    • With Google Chrome, the error states “The site’s security certificate is not trusted.” Continue by clicking Proceed Anyway.

    • With Mozilla Firefox, the error states “This connection is untrusted.” Proceed by selecting I Understand The Risks and then selecting Add Exception. Finally, in the Add Security Exception dialog box, select Confirm Security Exception.

  3. You’ll see the logon page for Exchange Admin Center. Enter your user name and password, and then tap or click Sign In.

    Be sure to specify your user name in DOMAIN\username format. The domain can either be the DNS domain, such as pocket-consultant.com, or the NetBIOS domain name, such as pocket-consulta. For example, the user AnneW could specify her logon name as pocket-consultant.com\annew or pocket-consulta\annew.

  4. If you are logging on for the first time, select your preferred display language and time zone, and then tap or click Save.

After you log on to Exchange Admin Center, you’ll see the list view with manageable features listed in the feature pane (see Figure 1). When you select a feature in the feature pane, you’ll then see the related topics or “tabs” for that feature. The manageable items for a selected topic or tab are displayed in the main area of the browser window. For example, when you select Recipients in the feature pane, the topics or tabs that you can work with are: Mailboxes, Groups, Resources, Contacts, Shared, and Migration.

A screen shot of Exchange Admin Center, showing the manageable features.
Figure 3-1. Exchange Admin Center uses a list view with manageable features listed on the left.

The navigation bar at the top of the window has several important options. You use the Enterprise and Office 365 options for cross-premises navigation. If there are notifications, tapping or clicking the Notification icon displays the notifications as shown in Figure 1. The User button shows the currently logged on user. Tapping or clicking the User button allows you to log out or sign in as another user.

Although ECP for Exchange 2010 would return only 500 recipients at a time, Exchange Admin Center doesn’t have this limitation since results are paged so that you can go through results one page at a time. Up to 20,000 recipients can be returned in the result set. When working with recipients, you can tap or click More to display options to:

  • Add or remove columns

  • Export data for the listed recipients to a .csv file

  • Perform advanced searches

If you customize the view by adding or removing columns, the settings are saved for the computer that you are using to access Exchange Admin Center. However, because the settings are saved as browser cookies, clearing the browser history will remove the custom settings.

When working with recipients, you typically can select multiple items and perform bulk editing as long as you select like items, such as mailbox users or mail-enabled contacts. Select multiple items using the Shift or Ctrl key and then use bulk editing options in the details pane to bulk edit the selected items.

 
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