If you opened the Start Screen in
Windows Server 2012, you will notice that there is no
Exchange Management Console as we were used to manage
Exchange Server 2010. On the Start Screen, you can only
find Exchange Management Shell and Exchange Toolbox.

Previously, with Exchange Server 2010 and older
versions, we used to have Exchange Management Console
inside the All Programs Start menu


So how do we administer Exchange
Server 2013 ? Well, Exchange Management Console (EMC)
has been replaced with Exchange Admin Center (EAC).
Exchange Admin Center is a web interface management
console used to
manage Exchange Server 2013.
To access Exchange Admin Center, you can have one
URL for its Internal Address and another URL for
Accessing it from an External Network. As this is
still a fresh installation of Exchange Server 2013, we
only have an Internal URL. Later on once you logon to
EAC, you can configured EAC external URL.
To access it from an Internal Network , Open
Internet Explorer, and type the following :
https://<CASServerName>/ecp,
where CASServerName is the name of the Client Access
Server
To access it from an External Network (from
the Internet) then open internet Explorer and type
the following :
https://mail.DomainName.tld/ecp , where
DomainName is your domain name and tld is the top
level domain , example https://mail.elmajdal.com/ecp
Follow the below steps to access it
from an Internal Network:
-
First you have to know your Exchange Server computer
name. Right click on Computer and click on
Properties

The computer name for my server is : ELMAJDAL-EX13
as displayed in the below screenshot.

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Then open Internet Explorer

-
Type the url of Exchange Admin Center :
https://<CASServerName>/ecp
where CASServerName is the name of the Client Access
Server
My Computer Name is : elmajdal-ex13, so the url will
be https://elmajdal-ex13/ecp , type
it inside the address bar and then hit Enter

-
To logon to EAC, you will need to authenticate with
a user account that has the required permission to
logon. I will logon with the same user who was used
to install Exchange Server. My user account before
installing Exchange was a member of Schema Admins,
Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins groups. After
installing Exchange, it automatically became a
member of Organization
Management group

Type your DomainName\Username and
your Password and then click sign in

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You will be asked to choose your
preferred display language and time
zone. Then click save

-
Exchange admin center will be opened,
and you can start administrating and
configuring your Exchange Server.

Below you can find sample screen
shots of Exchange Admin Center.
Note : Although
Exchange Admin Center is a web interface management
console, it can not be accessed from any operating
system or web browser !
In the below section, I will be showing your the
supported operating systems and web browsers.
Supported Operating Systems
and Browsers
For the best experience with the EAC, use one of the
operating system and browser combinations labeled
“Premium”.
- Premium: All functional features are
supported and fully tested.
- Supported: Has same functional
feature support as premium. However,
supported browsers will be missing
features that the browser and operating
system combination doesn’t support.
- Unsupported: The browser and
operating system isn’t supported or
tested.
Web Browser
|
Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003
|
Windows Vista
|
Windows 7 and
Windows Server 2008
|
Windows 8 and
Windows Server 2012
|
Mac OSX
|
Linux
|
Internet Explorer 8
|
Supported
|
Supported
|
Premium
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Internet Explorer 9
|
Unsupported
|
Supported
|
Premium
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Internet Explorer 10 or
later
|
Unsupported
|
Supported
|
Premium
|
Premium
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Firefox 11 or later
|
Supported
|
Supported
|
Premium
|
Premium
|
Premium
|
Supported
|
Safari 5.1 or later
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Unsupported
|
Premium
|
Unsupported
|
Chrome 18 or later
|
Supported
|
Supported
|
Premium
|
Premium
|
Premium
|
Unsupported
|
Other operations system and browser
combinations not listed in the above table are
unsupported.
Summary
Exchange Admin Center is a totally
new web management console for managing Exchange Server
2013. Now you can manage exchange server from Windows,
MAC and Linux machines as well.
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