Introduzione

This course provides experienced Exchange Server administrators with the knowledge to design and implement an Exchange Server messaging environment. The course covers how to design and configure advanced components in an Exchange Server deployment such as site resiliency, advanced security, compliance, archiving and discovery solutions, coexistence with other Exchange organizations or Exchange Online, and migration from previous versions of Exchange server. The course also provides guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help optimize Exchange Server deployments.

The audience for this course includes IT professionals who are experienced messaging administrators, messaging architects, or consultants. This course is designed for people in an enterprise environment who are responsible for designing and deploying Exchange Server solutions, including environments that contain previous versions of Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Students taking this course are expected to have experience with Exchange Server 2019 or previous versions of Exchange Server.

Obiettivi del corso

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Plan for Exchange Server deployments

Plan and deploy Exchange Server hardware, virtualization, mailbox databases, and public folders

Plan message transport in Exchange Server

Plan and deploy Client Access services in Exchange Server

Design and implement a highly available Exchange Server environment

Maintain Exchange Server by using Managed Availability and Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Plan for messaging security and design and implement Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Microsoft Azure RMS in Exchange Server

Design and implement message retention and archiving

Design and implement data loss prevention policies, In-Place Hold, and eDiscovery

Design and implement messaging coexistence among Exchange Server organizations

Plan and implement the upgrade from previous versions of Exchange Server to Exchange Server 2019

Plan a hybrid Exchange deployment

Struttura del Corso

MODULE 1: Planning Exchange Server deployments

This module explains the key features of Exchange Server and explains how to gather business requirements. 

It also explains how to plan for an Exchange Server deployment and the migration of Unified Messaging to Cloud Voicemail.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the new features in Exchange Server 2019

Describe how to gather business requirements for an Exchange Server deployment

Plan an Exchange Server deployment

Plan how to migrate Exchange Server 2016 Unified Messaging (UM) to Cloud Voicemail

Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure

Identifying requirements

Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server 2019

Lab : Planning Exchange Server 2019 deployments

MODULE 2: Planning and deploying Exchange Server Mailbox services

This module explains how to plan and implement Exchange Server hardware, Exchange Server virtualization, Azure integration, and public folders.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement Exchange Server hardware

Plan for Exchange Server virtualization and Microsoft Azure integration

Plan and implement public folders

Planning mailbox server configuration and location

Planning for mailbox databases

Implementing mailbox databases

Planning and implementing public folders

Lab : Planning and implementing Exchange Server mailbox servers, databases, and public folders

MODULE 3: Planning message transport

This module explains how to plan and implement mail routing internally as well as from and to the internet. This module also describes transport-related tasks in the organization.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design message routing

Design transport services

Design external message routing

Design and implement transport compliance

Planning for a redundant and secure message transport

Lab : Planning message transport

MODULE 4: Planning and deploying client access

This module explains how to plan and implement Exchange Server clients, client access, Microsoft Office Online Server, and coexistence of Microsoft SharePoint with Exchange Server

It also explains the design and implementation of external client access

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for Exchange Server clients

Plan for client access

Plan and implement Office Online Server

Plan and implement SharePoint and with Exchange Server coexistence

Design external client access

Plan and configure namespaces

Plan and configure client access services options

Plan and deploy Office Online Server

Plan and implement reverse proxy

Lab : Planning and deploying client access solutions

MODULE 5: Designing and implementing high availability

This module explains how to plan and implement high availability for Exchange Server. 

It also explains how to plan for load balancing. 

Finally, it explains how to plan and implement site resilience.

Lessons

Planning high availability for Exchange Server

Planning for load balancing

Planning for site resilience

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan high availability for an Exchange Server

Plan for load balancing in an Exchange Server deployment

Plan for site resilience in an Exchange Server deployment

Plan high availability and site resilience

Create a site-resilient DAG

Validate site resilience

Create a lagged database copy

Recover data from a lagged database copy

Lab : Designing and implementing high availability

MODULE 6: Maintaining Exchange Server

This module explains how to maintain Exchange Server by using Managed Availability and DSC.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use Managed Availability to improve high availability

Using Windows PowerShell to investigate and configure Managed Availability

Implement DSC

Lab : Maintaining Exchange Server

MODULE 7: Designing messaging security

This module explains how to plan for messaging security, and how to design and implement AD RMS and Azure RMS in an Exchange Server organization.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan messaging security

Design and implement AD RMS and Azure RMS

Create a message transport rule to protect email

Lab : Designing messaging security

MODULE 8: Designing and implementing message retention and archiving

This module explains the purpose of archiving and messaging records management. 

It also explains how to design and implement In-Place archiving and message retention.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the purpose of archiving and messaging records management

Design and implement In-Place archiving

Design and implement message retention

Lab : Designing and implementing message retention and archiving

MODULE 9: Designing and implementing messaging compliance

This module explains how to design and implement data loss prevention policies, In-Place Hold, and In-Place eDiscovery.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and implement data loss prevention

Design and implement In-Place Hold

Design and implement In-Place eDiscovery

Design messaging compliance

Implement data loss prevention

Compare messaging policy and compliance options

Lab : Designing and implementing messaging compliance

MODULE 10: Designing and implementing messaging coexistence

This module explains how to design and implement federation. 

It also explains how to design coexistence between Exchange Server organizations. 

Finally, it explains how to design and implement cross-forest mailbox moves.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and implement federation.

Design and implement the coexistence between Exchange Server organizations.

Implement message-routing coexistence

Design and implement cross-forest mailbox moves.

Migrating user mailboxes

Lab : Implementing messaging coexistence

MODULE 11: Upgrading to Exchange Server 2019

This module provides an overview of the options you have when choosing to implement Exchange Server 2019, and provides details on how to upgrade an existing Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2016 organization to Exchange Server 2019.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan an upgrade to Exchange Server 2019.

Implement the upgrade to Exchange Server 2019.

Document the Exchange Server 2013 organization

Deploy Exchange Server 2019

Upgrad from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2019

Remov Exchange Server 2013

Lab : Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2019

MODULE 12: Planning a hybrid Exchange Server deployment

This module explains the basics of a hybrid deployment and how to plan for authentication in a hybrid deployment. 

It also explains how to implement Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect, a hybrid development, and advanced functionality for hybrid deployments.

Lessons

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the basics of a hybrid deployment

Plan for authentication in a hybrid environment

Implement Azure AD Connect

Implement a hybrid deployment

Implement advanced functionality for hybrid deployments

Creat a plan for hybrid Exchange deployment

Lab : Planning a hybrid Exchange deployment