Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: Throttling Polices for Mobile Devices.
Summary
In this article we will walk through the steps to control the number of mobile devices connecting with Microsoft Exchange environment for email synchronization through throttling policies. Throttling policies in Exchange enable you to change the amount of resources can be used by mailboxes that are assigned that throttling policy. For example, you may want to increase the maximum concurrent Outlook and OWA connections for a mailbox that needs to have many concurrent open connections. Similarly, people used more than one mobile devices for email synchronization which can obviously put unnecessary load on your Exchange Server. We can create a one device policy in Exchange Environment & force it to all users mailboxes so that everybody can connect only one mobile device at a time.
Steps
We will create three throttling polices to categories the people in organization. Top-Management
- Top-Management
- Middle-Management
- Lower-Management
Most of the cases we have to consider Top management as exceptions or separate policy for Top management so you can allow two or three devices to top management mailboxes.
Creating a New Throttling Policy
We will create three throttling policies as per above scenario for only mobile device connectivity. Go any your Exchange Server and open Exchange PowerShell to run these commands.
For Top-Management
New-Throttlingpolicy "Top-Management" -EasMaxDevices 3 -EasMaxConcurrency 3
For Middle-Management
New-Throttlingpolicy "Middle-Management" -EasMaxDevices 2 -EasMaxConcurrency 2
For Lower-Management
New-Throttlingpolicy "Lower-Management" -EasMaxDevices 1 -EasMaxConcurrency 1
At this point we have created three throttling custom polices as per our requirements. Now we will enforce these polices to the mailboxes which belongs to different category.
Enforcing Throttling Policy to Mailboxes
We will apply these policies for mailboxes belongs to different department or designations.
For Top-Management
Set-Mailbox shakir.hussain@mstechguru.ae -ThrottlingPolicy "Top-Management"
After applying this command, the mailbox will be connected as per top management policy settings.
For Middle-Management
Set-Mailbox shakir.hussain@mstechguru.ae -ThrottlingPolicy "Middle-Management"
After applying this command, the mailbox will be connected as per middle management policy settings.
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For Lower-Management**
Set-Mailbox shakir.hussain@mstechguru.ae -ThrottlingPolicy "Lower-Management"
After applying this command, the mailbox will be connected as per lower management policy settings.
Conclusions
This is how we can control mobile devices in Exchange environment. Similarly, we can also control number of connection coming from Outlook and OWA, in this way we have the advantages to control un-necessary traffic to your Exchange Server.
Also See
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351264(v=exchg.160).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205(v=exchg.160).aspx