Course Content
Module 1: Planning Exchange Server 2016 deployments
This module explains the requirements and considerations for planning an Exchange Server deployment.
Lessons
- New features in Exchange Server 2016
- Gathering business requirements for an Exchange Server 2016 deployment
- Planning for an Exchange Server deployment
- Designing a Unified Messaging (UM) deployment
Lab : Planning Exchange Server 2016 deployments
- Evaluating an existing messaging infrastructure
- Identifying requirements
- Discussion: Deployment design for Exchange Server 2016
Module 2: Planning and deploying Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox services
This module explains how to plan and deploy Exchange Server hardware, virtualization, mailbox databases, 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 virtualization, mailbox databases, and public folders
- Planning for virtualization
- Planning for mailbox databases
- Implementing mailbox databases
- Planning and implementing public folders
Module 3: Planning and deploying message transport
This module explains how to plan and implement mail routing internally from and to the Internet, and 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 and deploying message transport
- Planning for a redundant and secure message transport
- Planning for transport compliance
- Implementing transport compliance
Module 4: Planning and deploying client access
This module explains how to plan for client connectivity and client access in Exchange Server 2016. This module also describes how to implement Microsoft Office Online Server, and the coexistence of SharePoint 2016 with Exchange.
Lessons
- Planning for Exchange Server 2016 clients
- Planning for client access
- Planning and implementing Office Online Server
- Planning and implementing coexistence of SharePoint 2016 with Exchange
- 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 v
- Planning high availability for Exchange Server 2016
- Planning for load balancing
- Planning for site resilience
- Creating a lag database copy
- Recovering data from a lagged database copy
- Implementing site resilience
- Validating site resilience
- Using Managed Availability to improve high availability
- Implementing DSC
- Using Windows PowerShell to investigate and configure Managed Availability
- Implementing DSC
- Planning messaging security
- Designing and implementing AD RMS and Azure RMS integration
- Implementing AD RMS
- Integrating AD RMS with Exchange Server
- Creating a message transport rule to protect email
- Proteccting an email with AD RMS
- Overview of messaging records management and archiving
- Designing In-Place Archiving
- Designing and implementing message retention
- Designing message retention and archiving
- Implementing message retention and archiving
- Designing and implementing data loss prevention
- Designing and implementing In-Place Hold
- Designing and implementing In-Place eDiscovery
- Designing messaging compliance
- Implementing data los prevention
- Implementing In-Place eDiscovery
- Comparing messaging policy and compliance options
- Designing and implementing federation
- Designing coexistence between Exchange organizations
- Designing and implementing cross-forest mailbox moves
- Implementing message-routing coexistence
- Migrating user mailboxes
- Planning an upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions
- Implementing the upgrade from previous Exchange Server versions
- Documenting the Exchange Server 2013 organization
- Deploying Exchange Server 2016
- Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2016
- Removing Exchange Server 2013
- Basics of a hybrid deployment
- Planning and implementing a hybrid deployment
- Implementing advanced functionality for hybrid deployments
- Designing the integration with Exchange Online
Module 5: Designing and implementing high availability
This module explains how to design and implement a highly available solution for Exchange Server 2016.
Lessons
Lab : Designing and implementing site resiliency
Module 6: Maintaining Exchange Server 2016
This module explains how to maintain Exchange Server 2016 using Managed Availability and Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Lessons
Lab : Maintaining Exchange Server 2016
Module 7: Designing messaging security
This module explains how to plan for messaging security and design and implement Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Azure RMS in an Exchange Server organization.
Lessons
Lab : Designing messaging security
Module 8: Designing and implementing message retention
This module explains how to plan for archiving and message retention.
Lessons
Lab : Designing and implementing message retention
Module 9: Designing messaging compliance
This module explains how to plan for and implement several Exchange features to help minimize data loss and monitor email traffic and content.
Lessons
Lab : Designing and implementing messaging compliance
Module 10: Designing and implementing messaging coexistence
This module explains how to plan and implement federation, design coexistence between Exchange organizations, and design and move mailboxes between different forests and Exchange organizations.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing messaging coexistence
Module 11: Upgrading to Exchange Server 2016
This module explains how to plan and implement an upgrade from previous Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server versions to Exchange Server 2016.
Lessons
Lab : Upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2016
Module 12: Planning a hybrid Exchange Server deployment
This module explains how to plan and implement a hybrid deployment for Exchange Server 2016.
Lessons
Lab : Designing the integration with Exchange Online