Exchange Server 2003: Administration

Course Overview

Exchange Server 2003 promises advances in system performance and user productivity. Combined with Outlook, Exchange Server 2003 offers a new level of advanced functionality, which includes increased mail security, enhanced Outlook Web access and multiple databases.

In this course, you gain the skills to install and configure Exchange Server 2003 in a Windows Server 2003 network.

Audience

This course is essential for those evaluating or implementing Exchange Server 2003. Course 595, " Windows Server 2003 ", is assumed. Familiarity with e-mail systems and the concepts of enterprise messaging is helpful.

Skills Gained

• Build an Exchange Server 2003 e-mail network hosted on a Windows Server 2003 domain
• Create mailbox and mail-enabled Users along with Contacts, Distribution Groups and Query Groups
• Manage Exchange servers through the System Manager MMC
• Back up and restore Exchange databases and mailboxes
• Connect multiple clients to Exchange Server 2003 including Outlook Web Access
• Monitor Exchange services and SMTP traffic using advanced built-in tools

Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

Advantages of Exchange Server 2003

• Enhancements to the feature set
• How Exchange compares to competitors

Integration with Windows Server 2003

• Active Directory (AD) fundamentals
• Locating Exchange in the AD

Installing Exchange Server 2003

Running the ExDeploy Wizard

• Modifying the AD schema
• Adding the SMTP and NNTP service
• Loading Exchange 2003 SP2

Installing the System Manager MMC

• Setting Exchange permissions
• Navigating the Exchange hierarchy

Managing Mail-Enabled Objects

Mail-enabling AD objects

• Working with User Object properties
• Running the Exchange Tasks Wizard

Properties of Contacts

• Creating mail-enabled Contacts
• Examining Contact object attributes

Group Objects and Exchange

• Differentiating between Group types
• Enabling Distribution Query Groups

Clients for Exchange

Outlook

• RPC and RPC over HTTPS
• Defining mailbox profiles
• Testing the Outlook advanced feature set

Outlook Web Access (OWA)

• Running Web-based clients for Exchange
• OWA feature sets
• Connecting via a front-end server

Managing Exchange Servers

System Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) for Exchange Server 2003

• Installing and running management tools onto Windows XP
• Assessing User Exchange properties
• Setting up permissions for the hierarchy

Placing policies

• Defining System Policies
• Setting parameters for addressing policies
• Managing mailbox limits

Backup and restore functionality

• Initialising the Recovery Storage Group
• Executing a mailbox Restore

Mail Routing Across the Enterprise

Routing Groups defined

• Creating new Routing Groups
• Examining the Link State table

Routing Group connectors for Exchange

• The Default SMTP Virtual Server
• Configuring Routing Group connectors

Deploying Exchange Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Solutions

Preventing SPAM e-mail

• Implementing the Intelligent Message Filter
• Enabling SPAM prevention in Outlook

Protecting mail data from infections with anti-virus options

• Install a commercial anti-virus solution
• Determining the scope of virus scanners

Connecting to the Internet

Outbound SMTP mails

• Creating an SMTP connector
• Analysing SMTP Virtual Server queues

Receiving Internet e-mail

• Firewall roles and Exchange
• Defining front-end and back-end services

Building Public Folders

Setting up public folders

• Creating the public folder tree
• Adding public folder content

Replicating public folders

• Configuring the replication topology
• Switching on public folder referrals

Monitoring Exchange

IIS and Exchange

• Logging SMTP Virtual Server traffic
• Analysing message flow

Server monitoring

• Setting up threshold limits
• Configuring notifications

Exchange repair tools

• Running the Exchange Best Practice Analyser
• Offline defragmentation and repair

Exchange Server 2003: Administration / MES03-A-5