20345-2: Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016

Categories: Infrastructure, Microsoft

About Course

Course Objective :

  • Plan and design a Microsoft Exchange Server deployment

  • Deploy and configure Exchange Mailbox services and databases

  • Design and implement secure and redundant message transport

  • Plan and configure client access services and namespaces

  • Implement high availability and site resilience using Database Availability Groups (DAG)

  • Manage and maintain Exchange Server using PowerShell and Managed Availability

  • Implement messaging security using AD RMS and transport rules

  • Configure archiving, retention policies, and messaging records management

  • Design and implement compliance features such as eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

  • Plan coexistence and migration between Exchange environments

  • Design and implement hybrid deployments with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365

 

Course Outlines:

Module 1: Planning Exchange Server deployments

  • New features in Exchange Server 2019
  • Gathering business requirements for an Exchange Server deployment
  • Planning for an Exchange Server deployment
  • Planning the migration of Unified Messaging to Cloud Voicemail
  • Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure
  • Identifying requirements
  • Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server 2019

Module 2: Planning and deploying Exchange Server Mailbox services

  • Planning Exchange Server hardware requirements
  • Planning Exchange Server for virtualization and Microsoft Azure integration
  • Planning and implementing public folders
  • Planning mailbox server configuration and location
  • Planning for mailbox databases
  • Implementing mailbox databases
  • Planning and implementing public folders

Module 3: Planning message transport

  • Designing message routing
  • Designing transport services
  • Designing the message-routing perimeter
  • Designing transport compliance
  • Planning for a redundant and secure message transport
  • Planning for transport compliance
  • Implementing transport compliance

Module 4: Planning and deploying client access

  • Planning for Exchange Server clients
  • Planning for client access
  • Planning and implementing Office Online Server
  • Planning and implementing coexistence of SharePoint 2019 with Exchange Server 2019
  • Designing external client access
  • Planning and configuring namespaces
  • Planning and configuring client access services options
  • Planning and deploying Office Online Server
  • Planning and implementing reverse proxy

Module 5: Designing and implementing high availability

  • Planning high availability for Exchange Server
  • Planning for load balancing
  • Planning for site resilience
  • Planning high availability and site resilience
  • Creating a site-resilient DAG
  • Validating site resilience
  • Creating a lagged database copy
  • Recovering data from a lagged database copy

Module 6: Maintaining Exchange Server

  • Using Managed Availability to improve high availability
  • Implementing DSC
  • Using Windows PowerShell to investigate and configure Managed Availability
  • Implementing DSC

Module 7: Designing messaging security

  • Planning messaging security
  • Designing and implementing AD RMS and Azure RMS
  • Planning messaging security
  • Implementing AD RMS
  • Integrating AD RMS with Exchange Server
  • Creating a message transport rule to protect email

Module 8: Designing and implementing message retention and archiving

  • Overview of archiving and messaginng records management
  • Designing In-Place Archiving
  • Designing and implementing message retention
  • Implementing message retention and archiving

Module 9: Designing and implementing messaging compliance

  • Designing and implementing data loss prevention policies
  • Designing and implementing In-Place Hold
  • Designing and implementing In-Place eDiscovery
  • Designing messaging compliance
  • Implementing data loss prevention
  • Implementing In-Place eDiscovery
  • Comparing messaging policy and compliance options

Module 10: Designing and implementing messaging coexistence

  • Designing and implementing federation
  • Designing coexistence between Exchange organizations
  • Designing and implementing cross-forest mailbox moves
  • Implementing message-routing coexistence
  • Migrating user mailboxes

Module 11: Upgrading to Exchange Server 2019

  • Planning an upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions
  • Implementing the upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions
  • Documenting the Exchange Server 2013 organization
  • Deploying Exchange Server 2019
  • Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2019
  • Removing Exchange Server 2013

Module 12: Planning a hybrid Exchange Server deployment

  • Basics of a hybrid deployment
  • Planning and implementing a hybrid deployment
  • Implementing Azure AD Connect
  • Implementing a hybrid deployment
  • Implementing advanced functionality for hybrid deployments
  • Creating a plan for hybrid Exchange deployment

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