This blog will explore how to access the FTP server shared folder using a Filezilla client. First of all, we need to download Filezilla Client for Windows. Click here.
1- After downloading, double click at FileZilla client.
2- Select Anyone who uses this computer (all users) and click Next.
3- Select the components you want to install and click next.
4- Click next.
5- Click next.
6- Successfully installed click finish.
7- Type host address, username, password, port number and click Quick Connect.
In this blog, I will do the installation and configuration of Filezilla FTP Server on my network using free Filezilla Server software, in order to upload or download files from everywhere in the world.
First of all, we’d like to download Filezilla Server for Windows Click here.
Install Filezilla FTP Server
1- After downloading, double click at FileZilla_Server.exe to start out the installation.
2- Click I Agree.
3- Choose which features you want to install and click next.
4- Click next.
5- Select install as service, started with Windows (default) and click next.
6- Select Start if the user logs on, applies to all users (default) and click install.
8- Launch the Filezilla Server application and click connect to administer (configure) your new FTP Server.
Filezilla Server configuration.
Create FTP Users and groups.
9- From the main menu click Edit and click Users.
Note: If you want to create several users to access your FTP server, with the same permissions, then choose Groups.
10- Select the General tab click Add to add the users that will have access to your FTP Server.
11- Type a name for the new user (Jamil) and click OK.
12- Under Account settings, check the Password checkbox and then type a password for the FTP user for security.
Create an FTP Share folder(s).
13- Under page tab, select Shared Folders option and click the Add button under Shared folders box, you need to choose the folder from your computer that folder will be shared via FTP. Note: If you haven’t already created a folder for FTP shared access, open Windows Explorer and create a new folder on your disk, before selecting the Add button.
Note: If you haven’t already created a folder for FTP shared access, open Windows Explorer and create a new folder on your disk, before selecting the Add button.
14- Select folder from your computer that will be used for FTP access (I have selected the FTP folder the one I have created in C Drive) and click ok.
15- Now we need to choose user permissions for the shared folder (Read, Write, Delete, etc.) and click ok.
Secure your FTP Server.
16- If you want to make your FTP Server more secure, then from the main menu select Edit and select Settings.
17- Select General settings to specify a different port than the 21 for FTP connections.
Note: if you want to access it from outside, then you need to map (forward) the new port to your FTP server’s internal IP Address (in Firewall/Router settings).
18- Select IP filter under general settings to specify which IP Address is allowed to access your FTP Server. In my test Labe, I am using the internal IP Address 10.0.0.50 to not allowed to connect to the FTP Server.
19- If we need to make our FTP Server more secure, then enable the FTP over TLS setting and by using a public/private key combination set for data encryption.
20- the way to access FTP Server from your local (internal) network, by using your browser, like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox)
Open your Internet Explorer, chrome, or Firefox and within the address bar, Type your FTP Server’s Hostname (or IP Address) and therefore the FTP port number (if you’ve got changed the default (21) port for FTP connections) and press Enter. (my FTP Server IP Address is “10.0.0.50” and port is “55557”, so I want to type. “ftp://10.0.0.50:55557”.
21- Type your username, password > select Save password and click Log on.
22- FTP Folder successfully connected.
Access Filezilla From Windows Explorer.
23- Open your Windows Explorer and in the address bar, Type your FTP Server’s Hostname (or IP Address) and the FTP port number (if you have changed the default (21) port for FTP connections) and press Enter.
(My FTP Server IP Address is “10.0.0.50” and port is “55557”, so I need to type. “ftp://10.0.0.50:55557”
24- If you want to add a shortcut to the FTP Shared folder into your Windows Explorer. Open my computer and Select Add network location.
25- Welcome to the Add Network Location Wizard click next.
26- Select choose a custom network location and click next.
27- Type the IP Address and the port number of your FTP Server and click next.
28- Uncheck Log on anonymously box > type your FTP User name and click next.
29- Type a name for this for new connection and click Next.
30- Click Finish.
31- Type your FTP server username and password > check save password box and click Log on.
32- Now new FTP network location is added in the Windows Explorer.
Note: If you want to access your FTP server from over the Internet.
Forward the FTP connections to your FTP
Server’s Internal IP Address (and port) on your Firewall/Router.
Allow the FTP connections on the required FTP Port on your Firewall/Router.
If you need to connect your FTP server over the Internet, you should know your Public IP Address.
1- Open Active Directory Users and Computers > right-click Users > select New and select User.
2- Type first name and last name and then a user logon name for the individual and click next.
3- Type Password and Confirm Password, I selected Password never expired or you can choose any of these options click Next.
4- Click finish.
5- Right-click on the newly created user and select properties. (here is the description of the user, their office, their telephone number, their email, their address information, etc.
Copy Users
6- To copy the user account right-click on it and select Copy.
7- type first name > Last name > user logon name and click next.
8- Type Password and Confirm Password, I selected Password never expired or you can choose any of these options click next.
9- Click Finish.
10- To delete a user account right-click on it and select delete.
Create an Active Directory Global Security Group
11- OpenActive Directory Users and Computers. Expand your local domain > Right-click on users > select New and then select Group.
12- Type the name of the new group. Use a reputation that you simply can easily accompany the role or service that you’re creating.
In the Group scope option, select Global. In Group type, choose Security.
Click OK.
Repeat steps for all remaining groups.
13- How to Create an Active Directory Global Security Group with PowerShell
Open
PowerShell with administrative privileges.
We can create a security group with actual values replaced. Here I’m creating the IT Group.
New-ADGroup “IT” -GroupScope Global -GroupCategory Security
By default, the security groups is going to be created in Users field.
After creating a security group you can add members to a security group. I am adding (user and user2) Add-ADGroupMember “IT” -Members user,user2
For more information on how to create users and groups in windows server 2019
1- Open Server Manager and select the Dashboard and select the Tools tab and click Active Directory Users and Computers To create OU in ADctive Directory.
2- In the Active Directory Users and Computers window right click on your Domain. (My domain name is xpertstec.local). So click new and then select the Organizational Unit.
3- Type OU name in the name box. Select protect the container from accidental deletion and then click on OK.
4- So you can see that the OU (Sales) is created.
Creating OUs in an Active Directory with PowerShell
5- You can create new ou in the Active Directory with PowerShell command. So the below command will create an OU named “Account” in the Domain Controller.
New-ADOrganizationalUnit “Account”
6- If you want a different OU LDAP path, specify its distinguished name using the –Pathcmdlet parameter.
In this blog, I will be able to configure database backup and restore the mailbox database and recover the whole database and emails using Windows Server Backup.
First of all, we’d like to install the Windows Server Backup role.
1- Open powershell and type the below command to enable the windows server backup role.
Install Windows Server Backup
Install-WindowsFeature windows-server-backup
2- Windows Server Backup role start the installation.
Exchange 2019 Database Backup and Restore
3- Select windows search bar and type Windows Server Backup and then select to start the Backup Process.
4- After opening windows server backup and under the action menu and then select on Backup once.
5- In the backup options so select Different options and then click on the next.
6- Select full backup (recommended) and then click on the Next button.
7- Select Local Drives and then click on the Next button.
8- Select a volume where you want to store the backup and then click on the next.
9- After confirmation and then click the Backup button to start the back up.
10- Now the Backup process successfully completed, so click on close.
Restoring the Entire Mailbox Database.
11- Login to Exchange admin center and select the Servers tab and select the database and select … and then click on Dismount.
12- Open your mailbox database location and then right click on the mailbox database 111625473 and select on rename.
In this blog, I will migrate the user’s mailboxes from one mailbox database to a different database.
Migrate Mailbox to Different Database
1- Open Exchange Admin Center and select the Servers tab and select the database tab so we can check out the mailbox databases on the Server.
2- Select the recipient’s options and Select the migration tab and select the + button and select Move to a different database so, the mailboxes move to the different databases.
3- Under select the users you want to move and click the + icon.
4- Select the users that you want to move and click the add button and click on ok.
5- Click on next.
6- Under the Target Database, so click on browse.
7- Select the database where you want to move the users and click on add so click on ok.
8- After selecting the target database and click on next.
9- Click on new to start user’s migration.
10- Migration completed, so click on view details.
11- so now you can check to move mailbox details.
12- Status for all batches and click on close.
13- The status report of migration Exchange 2019 will be sent to defined recipients.
1- Log on to Exchange Admin Center and select the Servers tab and select Databases and select “…” icon and select Add database copy.
2- So under the specified mailbox server click Browse.
3- Select the mailbox server to want to add a copy to and click on ok.
4- In the Action preference number select 2 and click on the Save button to add the database copy.
5- Now you can see the file paths on the server that you are adding the database copy to and you will also see the seeding files as the database and the transaction log files are copied across.
6- Because a small database will not take more than a few minutes to finish saving. Larger databases or slower networks will take long. After saving completed successfully click on close.
When the operation complete the second server is going to be hosting a passive database copy that’s maintained, so far through a process of continuous replication from the active database copy.
7- Now you will see the two servers have copies of the database.
8- So now type “Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus” to check the database copy health.
9- So Now type “Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus “EXCHDB” | ft -auto” to check the database status.
In this blog, we’ll go through the installation of Exchange 2019 Database Availability Group with two-node members. The DAG will have a Primary network as well as one replication network. The file share witness is another member server in the domain that has no Exchange 2019 server roles installed. I am using my domain controller as a file share witness server.
In my environment
SRV2019-DC (File share witness
server)
10.0.0.20
Exch2K19-1 (Node 1)
10.0.0.24
192.168.0.11
Exch2K19-2 (Node 2)
10.0.0.25
192.168.0.12
Database Availability Group Configuration Exchange 2019
First, we need to prepare the Environment for the DAG
1- I have two networks one Primary and one Replication for my DAG replication for all the nodes which I am planning to add in DAG.
2- Make sure these networks are in a Different Class of IP Address.
Primary Network
3- Replication Network.
Replication IP Address should ping with other replication IP Address – So that Database Availability Group replication will happen through these Networks.
How to Create a Computer Account
We need to create a computer account to pre-stage the Cluster Cluster Name Object.
4- Open active directory users and computers > expand your local domain > select computers > right side under descriptions right-click > click New and click Computer Account.
5- Type a DAG Name and click ok.
6- Right-click on dag computer name and select Disable Account.
7- Click Yes.
8- Click OK.
9- Give Full Control for Exchange Trusted Subsystems.
Right-click on DAG computer name and select properties.
10- Select security tab > Select Exchange Trusted Subsystem > select full control and click apply.
11- Now under security click the Add button.
12- Select Object Types.
13- Select Computers and click ok.
14- Type your First node name > click check names and click ok.
15- First Node Computer account has been added > select full control box to give permission and click apply.
16- Under the security tab, click the add button again and Type second node computer name > click check names and click ok.
17- Give full control > click Apply for the Permissions and click ok.
Now we are creating a DAG in Exchange Server 2019.
The Exchange Trusted Subsystem should be a member of the local Administrator group on the specified witness server.
I am using my active directory server as a witness server.
18- Open active directory users and computers > expand domain controller > select Microsoft Exchange Security Group and then right Exchange Trusted Subsystem and select properties.
19- Select Member of and click the add button.
20- Type administrator > click check names and click ok.
21- Click OK.
Create Database Availability Group
22- Login to Exchange Admin Center > select Servers > select Database Availability Groups and select + add button.
23- Type DAG name > Witness Server Name > Witness Location > Add Two DAG IP Address (Static IP for the DAG)
1 for Primary Site and 1 for DR site
If you have different subnet or different classes of IP Addresses on either Sites. Have Two IP addresses for the DAG so that DAG resource can be online while failover on either site If you have only one Subnet then you can have only one IP Address for the DAG.
Database Availability Groupe Membership
24- Now my DAG Configuration is Ready and Add a member to it > Select Manage DAG Membership.
25- Select the + add icon.
26- Select first node > click add and click ok.
27- Select Save.
28- First node member completed successfully and click close.
29- Now you can add the 2nd DAG member > again Select Manage DAG Membership.
30- Select the + Add icon.
31- Select 2nd node > click the add button and click ok.
32- Click Save.
33- 2nd node completed successfully and click close.
34- Now both the nodes successfully added.
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