Enter the Exchange Administration Center (EAC), a new web-based unified console that allows you to manage Exchange Server 2013 (on-premises), Exchange Online Preview organizations and hybrid deployments. You don’t need to install any admin tools on your management computer/workstation to use the EAC. In fact, the EAC provides rich cross-browser and cross-platform support so you can use your browser of choice (see list ofsupported browsers/platforms).
You can access the EAC by going to http://<serverFQDN>/ecp. If you’ve been using Exchange 2010, the URL may sound familiar – it belongs to the Exchange Control Panel (ECP). In Exchange 2013 Preview, the same familiar URL lands you to the new web-based admin console that’s packed with functionality.
Figure 2: The Exchange Administration Center (EAC) login page at http://server.domain.com/ecp (seelarger image)
When you first log in to the EAC (if you’ve never logged into your mailbox), you’re presented with the familiar language/locale and timezone setting page.
If you’ve been using EMC in Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007, you’ll be right at home with the EAC. Even if you’re not, it’s an easy web-based tool you can navigate through without much effort.
The familiar choices in navigation bar include:
| Left navigation | Tabs |
|---|---|
| Recipients | Mailboxes | Groups | Resources (resource mailboxes) | Contacts | Shared (mailboxes) | Migration |
| Permissions | Admin Roles | User Roles | and in this Preview build – OWA Policies. |
| Compliance Management | In-Place Discovery (Multi-Mailbox Search in Exchange 2010) & Hold (In-Place Hold, new functionality to replace Litigation Hold aka Legal Hold, which is deprecated but still available in this release) | Auditing(mailbox audit logging & admin audit logging reports) | Data Loss Prevention (new information protection feature) | Retention Policies | Retention Tags | Journaling |
| Organization | Sharing (Federation Trusts) | Apps (new feature) | Address Lists |
| Protection | Anti-Malware (new feature) |
| Mail Flow | Rules (transport rules) | Delivery Reports | Accepted Domains | Email Address Policies | Receive Connectors | Send Connectors |
| Mobile | Mobile Device Access (Allow/Block/Quarantine mobile devices) |Mobile Device Policies (ActiveSync Mailbox Policies) |
| Public Folders | Public Folders | Public Folder Mailboxes |
| Unified Messaging | UM Dial Plans | UM IP Gateways |
| Servers | Servers | Databases (from entire org) | Database Availability Groups |Virtual Directories (manage all CAS virtual directories, including AutoDiscover, EAS, ECP – used by EAC, EWS, OWA and PowerShell) |Certificates |
| Hybrid | Setup (Setup a Hybrid deployment with Office 365) |
So that’s a quick run down of the elements in the EAC in Exchange 2013 Preview. You can learn more in Exchange Administration Center in Exchange 2013 Preview documentation.
Remember, Exchange 2013 Preview, and therefore the EAC, is a work in progress. The navigation elements and their locations described above may go through changes by the time Exchange 2013 ships.
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