Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server

This module explains the requirements and considerations for planning an Exchange Server deployment.

Lessons

New features in Exchange Server

Gathering business requirements for an Exchange Server deployment

Planning for an Exchange Server deployment

Designing a Unified Messaging (UM) deployment

Lab : Planning Exchange Server deployments

Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure

Identifying requirements

Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server

This module explains how to plan and deploy Exchange Server hardware, virtualization, mailbox databases, and public folders.

Lessons

Planning Exchange Server hardware requirements

Planning Exchange Server for virtualization and Microsoft Azure integration

Planning and implementing public folders

Lab : Planning and implementing Exchange virtualization, mailbox databases, and public folders

Planning for virtualization

Planning for mailbox databases

Implementing mailbox databases

Planning and implementing public folders

This module explains how to plan and implement mail routing internally from and to the Internet, and transport-related tasks in the organization.

Lessons

Designing message routing

Designing transport services

Designing the message-routing perimeter

Designing and implementing transport compliance

Lab : Planning and deploying message transport

Planning for a redundant and secure message transport

Planning for transport compliance

Implementing transport compliance

This module explains how to plan for client connectivity and client access in Exchange Server. This module also describes how to implement Microsoft Office Online Server, and the coexistence of SharePoint with Exchange.

Lessons

Planning for Exchange Server clients

Planning for client access

Planning and implementing Office Online Server

Planning and implementing coexistence of SharePoint with Exchange

Designing external client access

Lab : Planning and deploying client access solutions

Planning and configuring namespaces

Planning and configuring client access services options

Planning and deploying Office Online Server

Planning and implementing reverse proxy

This module explains how to design and implement a highly available solution for Exchange Server.

Lessons

Planning high availability for Exchange Server

Planning for load balancing

Planning for site resilience

Lab : Designing and implementing site resiliency

Creating a lag database copy

Recovering data from a lagged database copy

Implementing site resilience

Validating site resilience

This module explains how to maintain Exchange Server using Managed Availability and Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Lessons

Using Managed Availability to improve high availability

Implementing DSC

Lab : Maintaining Exchange Server

Using Windows PowerShell to investigate and configure Managed Availability

Implementing DSC

This module explains how to plan for messaging security and design and implement Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Azure RMS in an Exchange Server organization.

Lessons

Planning messaging security

Designing and implementing AD RMS and Azure RMS integration

Lab : Designing messaging security

Implementing AD RMS

Integrating AD RMS with Exchange Server

Creating a message transport rule to protect email

Proteccting an email with AD RMS

This module explains how to plan for archiving and message retention.

Lessons

Overview of messaging records management and archiving

Designing In-Place Archiving

Designing and implementing message retention

Lab : Designing and implementing message retention

Designing message retention and archiving

Implementing message retention and archiving

This module explains how to plan for and implement several Exchange features to help minimize data loss and monitor email traffic and content.

Lessons

Designing and implementing data loss prevention

Designing and implementing In-Place Hold

Designing and implementing In-Place eDiscovery

Lab : Designing and implementing messaging compliance

Designing messaging compliance

Implementing data los prevention

Implementing In-Place eDiscovery

Comparing messaging policy and compliance options

This module explains how to plan and implement federation, design coexistence between Exchange organizations, and design and move mailboxes between different forests and Exchange organizations.

Lessons

Designing and implementing federation

Designing coexistence between Exchange organizations

Designing and implementing cross-forest mailbox moves

Lab : Implementing messaging coexistence

Implementing message-routing coexistence

Migrating user mailboxes

This module explains how to plan and implement an upgrade from previous Exchange Server or Exchange Server versions to Exchange Server.

Lessons

Planning an upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions

Implementing the upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions

Lab : Upgrading from Exchange Server to Exchange Server

Documenting the Exchange Server organization

Deploying Exchange Server

Upgrading from Exchange Server to Exchange Server

Removing Exchange Server

This module explains how to plan and implement a hybrid deployment for Exchange Server.

Lessons

Basics of a hybrid deployment

Planning and implementing a hybrid deployment

Implementing advanced functionality for hybrid deployments

Lab : Designing the integration with Exchange Online

Designing the integration with Exchange Online