Exchange Server 2007: Upgrading your Skills from Exchange 2003

Course Overview

The course will allow the delegate to install, maintain, and manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The course covers the features of e-mail and information sharing, security issues, and implementing different messaging environments.

This course is delivered based on delegates having a good knowledge of the concepts of Exchange. Only where concepts are new or greatly changed will time be spent going over them. Where features are the same as previous versions they will be mentioned for completeness only.

Audience

Delegates with a STRONG background in Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 should attend this course. Please check the outline for these courses and ensure that the topics covered there are understood in order to attend this course.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a good depth of knowledge of Windows 2000 or 2003 server and should be familiar with the concepts of Active Directory. This knowledge can be gained from our Windows 2000 or 2003 Administration course. Delegates should have attended the course 'Exchange 2000 / 2003 Administration' or have equivalent knowledge which can be checked against by ringing our experienced staff.

Course Outline

ARCHITECTURE & DEPLOYMENT

• • Architecture and Deployment
  • Active Directory Components
  • AD as Exchange Configuration Element
  • Active Directory in Application Mode
  • Exchange 2007 Server Roles
  • Mailbox, Client Access, Hub Transport, Edge Transport and Unified Messaging
  • Deployment Considerations
  • INSTALLATION, TRANSITIONING AND MIGRATION
• • Installing Exchange 2007
  • Installation Requirements
  • Deploying Exchange
  • Administration Tasks Post-Installation
  • Transitioning and Migration

• EXCHANGE RECIPIENTS IN EXCHANGE 2007

• • Creating and Managing Mailboxes
  • Mail Contacts
  • Distribution Groups
  • Dynamic Distribution Groups
  • CLIENT SUPPORT WITH OWA
  • Outlook Web Access Configuration
  • MANAGING THE MAILBOX SERVER ROLE - CHANGES FROM Ex2003
  • Introducing the Mailbox Server Role
  • Address Lists
  • Offline Address Books
  • Mailbox Policies
  • Storage Groups
  • Creating and Managing Databases
  • Maintaining Databases

• MANAGING THE CLIENT ACCESS ROLE - CHANGES FROM Ex2003

• Exchange ActiveSync
• ActiveSync Policies
• ActiveSync Configuration
• Outlook Anywhere
• Configuring the RPC over HTTP Service
• Configuring Outlook for Outlook Anywhere
• Additional Management
• MANAGING THE HUB TRANSPORT ROLE - CHANGES FROM Ex2003
• Including protocol support, hub transports,
• Introduction To Message Routing, Internet connectivity, connection objects, Active Directory Site usage.
• AVAILABILITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
• High Availability
• Redundancy with Single Servers
• Redundancy with Multiple Servers
• Disaster Recovery
• Backup and Restore
• Recovery Storage Groups
• Role and Server Recovery
• USING THE EXCHANGE TOOLBOX
• Configuration Management Tools
• Disaster Recovery Tools
• Mail Flow Tools
• Performance Tools
• EXCHANGE SECURITY
• Exchange Permissions Management
• Installing and Subscribing The Edge Transport
• Anti-Spam and Other Security
• IMPLEMENTING UNIFIED MESSAGING
• Unified Messaging Concepts
• Configuring the Unified Messaging Server
• PUBLIC FOLDERS IN EXCHANGE 2007 - CHANGES FROM Ex2003
• Managing Public Folders

Exchange Server 2007: Upgrading your Skills from Exchange 2003 / MES07-UG