[Microsoft Exchange 2013] Overview of Exchange Administration Center

The Exchange Administration Center (EAC) is the web-based management console in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview that allows for ease of use and is optimized for on-premises, online, or hybrid Exchange deployments. The EAC replaces the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), which were the two interfaces that were used to manage Exchange Server 2010.

The left navigation control is similar to the console tree from the EMC in Exchange 2010. However, in Exchange 2013 Preview the left navigation control is organized by feature areas as opposed to server role and there are fewer clicks to find what you need.

• Récipients   Then Recipients center is where you’ll go to manage mailboxes, groups, resource mailboxes, contacts, shared mailboxes, and mailbox migrations and moves.
• Permissions   The Permissions center is where you’ll manage administrator roles, user roles, and Outlook Web App policies.
• Compliance Management   The Compliance Management center is where you’ll manage In-Place eDiscovery, In-Place Hold, Auditing, Data Loss Prevention, Retention Policies, Retention Tags, and Journaling.
• Organization   The Organization center is where you’ll manage the tasks that pertain to your Exchange Organization, including Federated sharing, Outlook Apps, and address lists.
• Protection   The Protection center is where you’ll manage the anti-malware protection for your organization.
• Mail Flow   The Mail Flow center is where you’ll manage rules, delivery reports, accepted domains, email address policies, and send and receive connectors.
• Mobile   The Mobile center is where you’ll manage the mobile devices that you allow to connect to your organization. You can manage mobile device access and policies.
• Public Folders   In Exchange 2010, you had to manage public folder by using the Public Folder Management Console, which was located outside of the EMC in the Toolbox. In Exchange 2013 Preview, public folders can be managed right from the Public Folders center.
• Unified Messaging   The Unified Messaging center is where you’ll manage UM dial plans and UM IP gateways.
• Servers   The Servers center is where you’ll manage your Mailbox and Client Access servers, databases, database availability groups, virtual directories, and certificates.
• Hybrid   The Hybrid center is where you’ll access Hybrid setup and configuration.

 

Here are some other screenshots of EAC.

 

 

 

For more informations about Exchange Administration Center : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150562(v=exchg.150)