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About This Course

This five-day, instructor-led course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage an Exchange Server 2010 messaging environment. This course does not require previous Exchange Server experience, but does require that students have significant experience in managing Windows Server and Active Directory directory services or Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). This course will teach you how to configure Exchange Server 2010, as well as provide guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help you optimize your Exchange Server deployment.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for people aspiring to be enterprise-level messaging administrators. Others who may take this course include IT generalists and help desk professionals who want to learn about Exchange Server 2010. People coming into the course are expected to have at least three years experience working in the IT field, typically in the areas of network administration, help desk, or system administration. They are not expected to have experience with previous Exchange Server versions.

Prerequites

In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should have the following prerequisite knowledge:

• Fundamental knowledge of network technologies including Domain Name System (DNS) and firewall technologies.
• Experience with the Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
• Experience with Active Directory directory services in Windows Server 2003 or AD DS Windows Server 2008.
• Experience managing backup and restore on Windows Servers.
• Experience using Windows management and monitoring tools such as Microsoft Management Console, Active Directory Users and Computers, Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and Internet Information Services (IIS) Administrator.
• Experience using Windows networking and troubleshooting tools such as Network Monitor, Telnet, and NSLookup.
• Fundamental knowledge of certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Basic experience with Windows Mobile.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Install and deploy Exchange Server 2010.
• Configure Mailbox servers and Mailbox server components.
• Manage recipient objects.
• Configure the Client Access server role.
• Manage message transport.
• Configure the secure flow of messages between the Exchange Server organization and the Internet.
• Implement a high availability solution for Mailbox servers and other server roles.
• Plan and implement backup and restore for the server roles.
• Plan and configure messaging policy and compliance.
• Configure Exchange Server permissions and security for internal and external access.
• Monitor and maintain the messaging system.
• Transition an Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2007 organization to Exchange Server 2010.
• Configure the Unified Messaging server role and Unified Messaging components.
• Implement High Availability across multiple sites and implement Federated Sharing.