Managing Microsoft Exchange Server Messaging Infrastructure
This course will teach you about setting up the infrastructure for an on-premises Exchange Server environment, including how to deliver highly available and site resilient Exchange services.
What you'll learn
Even though many organizations are moving to the cloud, there are still a lot of customers who remain on-premises and need to deploy and maintain a secure, reliable email infrastructure.
In this course, Managing Microsoft Exchange Server Messaging Infrastructure, you will learn about planning and deploying the infrastructure for an on-premises Exchange Server environment. First, you will be shown how to install Exchange servers and configure them for secure client access. Next, you will explore how to create and configure mailbox databases, how to plan for and configure high availability, and how to design for site resilience in Exchange Server. Finally, you will discover how to recover from data loss and disaster scenarios.
By the end of this course, you will feel ready to plan and deploy a modern, reliable, and secure on-premises Exchange Server environment.
Table of contents
- Active Directory Requirements 7m
- Resource Forests 3m
- Active Directory Permissions Models for Exchange 3m
- Exchange Server Requirements 8m
- Demo: Exchange Server and Storage Sizing Calculator 7m
- The MetaCacheDatabase 3m
- Storage Planning 8m
- DNS Requirements 4m
- Network and Firewall Requirements 5m
- Globomantics Planning 3m
- Summary 0m
- Active Directory Schema Extension for Exchange Server 4m
- Demo: Preparing Active Directory for Exchange Installation 8m
- Demo: Preparing a Server for Exchange Installation 2m
- Demo: Installing Exchange Server with Graphical Setup 2m
- Demo: Installing Exchange Server with Command-line Setup 2m
- Demo: Installing a Cumulative Update 2m
- Demo: Installing Management Tools on Workstations 3m
- Summary 1m
- Moving Mailbox Databases 3m
- Demo: Moving a Mailbox Database to a New Location 3m
- Demo: Creating a New Mailbox Database 3m
- Mailbox Quotas 6m
- Demo: Managing Mailbox Quotas 6m
- Mailbox Placement 5m
- Demo: Configuring Auto-provisioning for Mailbox Databases 3m
- Troubleshooting Mailbox Databases 4m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction to Client Access 3m
- Demo: Outlook Connectivity Before Client Access Configuration 2m
- Client Access Namespaces 7m
- Autodiscover 8m
- Demo: Configuring Virtual Directories 4m
- Demo: Using PowerShell to Configure Virtual Directories 6m
- Certificates for Exchange Server 5m
- Demo: Provisioning an Exchange Certificate 4m
- Client Access Rules 4m
- Demo: Blocking External Administrative Access with Client Access Rules 4m
- Demo: Outlook Connectivity After Client Access Configuration 1m
- Summary 1m
- Mailbox High Availability Concepts 7m
- Demo: Creating a Database Availability Group 3m
- Demo: Managing Database Availability Group Members 3m
- Demo: Managing Database Copies 4m
- Demo: Database Switchovers and Failovers 4m
- Database Availability Group Networking 2m
- Database Availability Group Maintenance Routines 2m
- Demo: Performing Maintenance on Database Availability Group Members 6m
- Troubleshooting Database Availability Groups 4m
- Demo: Evaluating Service Health 4m
- Summary 1m
- Planning for Site Resilience 6m
- Dynamic Quorum 2m
- Datacenter Activation Coordination Mode 4m
- Best Copy and Server Selection 5m
- Activation Policies 3m
- Auto Reseed 5m
- Demo: Adding the New York Exchange Servers to Globomantics 2m
- Demo: Balancing activation preferences 4m
- Demo: Performing a Datacenter Switchover 5m
- Summary 1m
- Planning Backup and Recovery 7m
- Demo: Backing up Exchange Using Windows Server Backup 2m
- Demo: Restoring a Database from Backup 5m
- Recovery Databases 1m
- Demo: Recovering a Mailbox Using a Recovery Database 6m
- Demo: Recovering Mailbox Items Using a Recovery Database 2m
- Dialtone Recovery 3m
- Exchange Server Recovery 3m
- Demo: Recovering a Failed Database Availability Group Member 6m
- Lagged Database Copies 5m
- Summary 0m
About the author
Paul Cunningham is a consultant, trainer and author, specializing in Office 365 and Exchange Server. Paul lives in Brisbane, Australia and has over 20 years of experience deploying and managing Microsoft systems and services for enterprise and government customers. Paul has authored and co-authored several books about Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Server.
