Course Overview
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage a Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 messaging environment. This course will teach you how to configure Exchange Server 2013, and it will provide guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help you optimize your Exchange Server deployment.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for people aspiring to be enterprise-level messaging administrators. Others who may take this course include IT generalists and help desk professionals who want to learn about Exchange Server 2013. People coming into the course are expected to have at least 3 years of experience working in the IT field—typically in the areas of network administration, help desk, or system administration. Students are expected to have experience with Exchange Server 2013 or with previous versions of Exchange Server.
In addition, this course is intended as preparation material for IT professionals who are looking to take the exam 70-342A: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Advanced Solutions, as a stand-alone, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 certification.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Design and implement Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging.
Design and implement site resiliency for Exchange Server 2013.
Plan a virtualization strategy for Exchange Server 2013 roles.
Design and implement message transport security.
Design and implement message retention in Exchange Server 2013.
Design and implement messaging compliance.
Design and implement administrative security in an Exchange Server 2013 environment.
Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage Exchange Server 2013.
Design and implement integration with Exchange Online.
Design and implement messaging coexistence.
Design and implement Exchange Server migrations from non-Exchange messaging systems, and upgrades from previous Exchange Server versions.
Prerequisites
In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:
Passed 70-341: Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, or equivalent
Minimum of two years of experience working with Exchange Server
Minimum of six months of experience working with Exchange Server 2010 or Exchange Server 2013
Minimum of two years of experience administering Windows Server, including Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012
Minimum of two years of experience working with Active Directory
Minimum of two years of experience working with name resolution, including DNS
Experience working with certificates, including public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates
Experience working with Windows PowerShell
Students who attend this training can meet the prerequisites by attending the following courses, or by obtaining equivalent knowledge and skills:
Course 20341: Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging
This module explains the basic concept of Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2013.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Telephony technologies overview
Lesson 2: Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2013
Lesson 3: Unified Messaging components
Lab : Unified Messaging Overview
Exercise 1: Identifying Unified Messaging components
After completing this module, students will be able to explain the basic concept of Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2013.
Module 2: Designing and implementing Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging
This module explains how to design and implement Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Designing a Unified Messaging deployment
Lesson 2: Deploying and configuring Unified Messaging components
Lesson 3: Integrating Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging with Lync
Lab : Designing and Implementing Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging
Exercise 1: Designing the Unified Messaging implementation
Exercise 2: Configuring Unified Messaging features
Exercise 3: Configuring Unified Messaging integration with Lync Server 2013
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging.
Module 3: Designing and implementing site resiliency
This module explains how to design and implement site resiliency for Exchange Server 2013.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Site resiliency in Exchange Server 2013
Lesson 2: Planning a site resilient implementation
Lesson 3: Implementing site resiliency
Lab : Designing and implementing site resiliency
Exercise 1: Designing a site resilient solution
Exercise 2: Implementing site resiliency
Exercise 3: Validating site resiliency
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement site resiliency for Exchange Server 2013.
Module 4: Planning virtualization for Exchange Server 2013
This module explains how to plan a virtualization strategy for Exchange Server 2013 roles.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Hyper-V 3.0 overview
Lesson 2: Virtualizing Exchange Server 2013 server roles
Lab : Planning virtualization of Exchange Server roles
Exercise 1: Designing an Exchange Server 2013 deployment for a large organization
Exercise 2: Designing an Exchange Server 2013 deployment for a medium organization
Exercise 3: Designing an Exchange Server 2013 deployment for a medium complex organization
After completing this module, students will be able to plan a virtualization strategy for Exchange Server 2013 roles.
Module 5: Designing and implementing message transport security
This module explains how to design and implement message transport security.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Overview of policy and compliance requirements
Lesson 2: Designing and implementing transport compliance
Lesson 3: Designing and implementing AD RMS integration with Exchange Server 2013
Lab : Designing and implementing message transport security
Exercise 1: Planning a message transport implementation
Exercise 2: Implementing message transport security
Exercise 3: Implementing AD RMS and Exchange Server integration
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement message transport security.
Module 6: Designing and implementing message retention
This module explains how to design and implement message retention in Exchange Server 2013.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Message records management and archiving overview
Lesson 2: Designing in-place archiving
Lesson 3: Designing and implementing message retention
Lab : Designing and implementing message retention
Exercise 1: Designing message retention and archiving
Exercise 2: Implementing message retention and archiving
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement message retention in Exchange Server 2013.
Module 7: Designing and implementing messaging compliance
This module explains how to design and implement messaging compliance.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Designing and implementing data loss prevention
Lesson 2: Designing and implementing an in-place hold
Lesson 3: Designing and implementing in-place e-discovery
Lab : Designing and implementing messaging compliance
Exercise 1: Designing messaging compliance
Exercise 2: Implementing data loss prevention
Exercise 3: Implementing in-place e-discovery
Exercise 4: Comparing messaging policy and compliance options
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement messaging compliance.
Module 8: Designing and implementing administrative security and auditing
This module explains how to design and implement administrative security in an Exchange Server 2013 environment.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Designing and implementing role based access control
Lesson 2: Designing and implementing split permissions
Lesson 3: Planning and implementing audit logging
Lab : Designing and implementing administrative security and auditing
Exercise 1: Designing a solution to fulfill requirements
Exercise 2: Implementing role based access control
Exercise 3: Implementing mailbox access and administrative logging
Exercise 4: Implementing and testing split permissions
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement administrative security in an Exchange Server 2013 environment.
Module 9: Managing Exchange Server 2013 with Exchange Management Shell
This module explains how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage Exchange Server 2013.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Overview of Windows PowerShell 3.0
Lesson 2: Using Exchange Management Shell to manage Exchange Server recipients
Lesson 3: Managing Exchange Server 2013 with Exchange Management Shell
Lab : Managing Exchange Server 2013 with Exchange Management Shell
Exercise 1: Exploring Exchange Management Shell
Exercise 2: Using Exchange Management Shell to manage recipients
After completing this module, students will be able to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage Exchange Server 2013.
Module 10: Designing and implementing integration with Exchange Online
This module explains how to design and implement integration with Exchange Online.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Planning for Exchange Online
Lesson 2: Planning and implementing the migration to Exchange Online
Lesson 3: Planning coexistence with Exchange Online
Lab : Designing integration with Exchange Online
Exercise 1: Designing integration with Exchange Online
Exercise 2: Implementing integration with Exchange Online
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement integration with Exchange Online.
Module 11: Designing and implementing messaging coexistence
This module explains how to design and implement messaging coexistence.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Designing and implementing federation
Lesson 2: Designing coexistence between Exchange organizations
Lesson 3: Designing and implementing cross-forest mailbox moves
Lab : Implementing messaging coexistence
Exercise 1: Implementing Message Routing Coexistence
Exercise 2: Migrating user mailboxes
Exercise 3: Configuring administrative coexistence
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement messaging coexistence.
Module 12: Designing and implementing Exchange Server migrations and upgrades
This module explains how to design and implement Exchange Server migrations from non-Exchange messaging systems, and upgrades from previous Exchange Server versions.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Designing migration from non-Exchange email systems
Lesson 2: Planning the upgrade from previous Exchange versions
Lesson 3: Implementing the migration from previous Exchange versions
Lab : Designing and implementing Exchange Server migrations
Exercise 1: Planning the migration strategy
Exercise 2: Deploying Exchange Server 2013 in an Exchange Server 2007 organization
Exercise 3: Migrating all messaging components to Exchange Server 2013
Exercise 4: Removing the Exchange Server 2007 server
After completing this module, students will be able to design and implement Exchange Server migrations from non-Exchange messaging systems, and upgrades from previous Exchange Server versions.