This course provides experienced Exchange Server administrators with the knowledge to design and implement an Exchange Server messaging environment. The course covers how to design and configure advanced components in an Exchange Server deployment such as site resiliency, advanced security, compliance, archiving and discovery solutions, coexistence with other Exchange organizations or Exchange Online, and migration from previous versions of Exchange server. The course also provides guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help optimize Exchange Server deployments.

Skills gained

• Plan for Exchange Server deployments.
• Plan and deploy Exchange Server hardware, virtualization, mailbox databases, and public folders.
• Plan message transport in Exchange Server.
• Plan and deploy Client Access services in Exchange Server.
• Design and implement a highly available Exchange Server environment.
• Maintain Exchange Server by using Managed Availability and Desired State Configuration (DSC).
• Plan for messaging security and design and implement Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Microsoft Azure RMS in Exchange Server.
• Design and implement message retention and archiving.
• Design and implement data loss prevention policies, In-Place Hold, and eDiscovery.
• Design and implement messaging coexistence among Exchange Server organizations.
• Plan and implement the upgrade from previous versions of Exchange Server to Exchange Server 2019.
• Plan a hybrid Exchange deployment.

Module 1: Planning Exchange Server deployments

This module explains the key features of Exchange Server and explains how to gather business requirements. It also explains how to plan for an Exchange Server deployment and the migration of Unified Messaging to Cloud Voicemail.

Lessons

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(UM) to Cloud Voicemail

Lab : Planning Exchange Server 2019 deployments

Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure

Identifying requirements

Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server 2019

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the new features in Exchange Server 2019

Describe how to gather business requirements for an Exchange Server deployment

Plan for an Exchange Server deployment

Plan how to migrate Exchange Server 2016 UM to Cloud Voicemail

Module 2: Planning and deploying Exchange Server Mailbox services

This module explains how to plan and implement Exchange Server hardware, Exchange Server virtualization, Azure integration, 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 Server mailbox servers, databases, and public folders

Planning mailbox server configuration and location

Planning for mailbox databases

Implementing mailbox databases

Planning and implementing public folders

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement Exchange Server hardware

Plan for Exchange Server virtualization and Microsoft Azure integration

Plan and implement public folders

Module 3: Planning message transport

This module explains how to plan and implement mail routing internally as well as from and to the internet. This module also describes 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 message transport

Planning for a redundant and secure message transport

Planning for transport compliance

Implementing transport compliance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design message routing

Design transport services

Design external message routing

Design and implement transport compliance

Module 4: Planning and deploying client access

This module explains how to plan and implement Exchange Server clients, client access, Microsoft Office Online Server, and coexistence of Microsoft SharePoint with Exchange Server. It also explains the design and implementation of external client access.

Lessons

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan for Exchange Server clients

Plan for client access

Plan and implement Office Online Server

Plan and implement SharePoint and with Exchange Server coexistence

Design external client access

Module 5: Designing and implementing high availability

This module explains how to plan and implement high availability for Exchange Server. It also explains how to plan for load balancing. Finally, it explains how to plan and implement site resilience.

Lessons

Planning high availability for Exchange Server

Planning for load balancing

Planning for site resilience

Lab : Designing and implementing high availability

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan high availability for an Exchange Server

Plan for load balancing in an Exchange Server deployment

Plan for site resilience in an Exchange Server deployment

Module 6: Maintaining Exchange Server

This module explains how to maintain Exchange Server by using Managed Availability and 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use Managed Availability to improve high availability

Implement DSC

Module 7: Designing messaging security

This module explains how to plan for messaging security, and how to design and implement AD RMS and Azure RMS in an Exchange Server organization.

Lessons

Planning messaging security

Designing and implementing AD RMS and Azure RMS

Lab : Designing messaging security

Planning messaging security

Implementing AD RMS

Integrating AD RMS with Exchange Server

Creating a message transport rule to protect email

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan messaging security

Design and implement AD RMS and Azure RMS

Module 8: Designing and implementing message retention and archiving

This module explains the purpose of archiving and messaging records management. It also explains how to design and implement In-Place archiving and message retention.

Lessons

Overview of archiving and messaginng records management

Designing In-Place Archiving

Designing and implementing message retention

Lab : Designing and implementing message retention and archiving

Designing message retention and archiving

Implementing message retention and archiving

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the purpose of archiving and messaging records management

Design and implement In-Place archiving

Design and implement message retention

Module 9: Designing and implementing messaging compliance

This module explains how to design and implement data loss prevention policies, In-Place Hold, and In-Place eDiscovery.

Lessons

Designing and implementing data loss prevention policies

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and implement data los prevention

Design and implement In-Place Hold

Design and implement In-Place eDiscovery

Module 10: Designing and implementing messaging coexistence

This module explains how to design and implement federation. It also explains how to design coexistence between Exchange Server organizations. Finally, it explains how to design and implement cross-forest mailbox moves.

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design and implement federation

Design the coexistence between Exchange Server organizations

Design and implement cross-forest mailbox moves

Module 11: Upgrading to Exchange Server 2019

This module provides an overview of the options you have when choosing to implement Exchange Server 2019, and provides details on how to upgrade an existing Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2016 organization to Exchange Server 2019.

Lessons

Planning an upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions

Implementing the upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions

Lab : Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2019

Documenting the Exchange Server 2013 organization

Deploying Exchange Server 2019

Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2019

Removing Exchange Server 2013

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan an upgrade to Exchange Server 2019

Implement the upgrade to Exchange Server 2019

Module 12: Planning a hybrid Exchange Server deployment

This module explains the basics of a hybrid deployment and how to plan for authentication in a hybrid deployment. It also explains how to implement Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect, a hybrid development, and advanced functionality for hybrid deployments.

Lessons

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

Lab : Planning a hybrid Exchange deployment

Creating a plan for hybrid Exchange deployment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the basics of a hybrid deployment

Plan for authentication in a hybrid environment

Implement Azure AD Connect

Implement a hybrid deployment

Implement advanced functionality for hybrid deployments

The audience for this course includes IT professionals who are experienced messaging administrators, messaging architects, or consultants. This course is designed for people in an enterprise environment who are responsible for designing and deploying Exchange Server solutions, including environments that contain previous versions of Exchange Server or Exchange Online. Students taking this course are expected to have experience with Exchange Server 2019 or previous versions of Exchange Server.