5047 Introduction to Installing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Training and Courseware

Quick Enroll

This course will provide you with the enabling knowledge and skills to configure and manage a messaging environment in accordance with technical requirements. Because this is the first course messaging administrators take, the enabling knowledge includes a significant amount of procedural knowledge as well as guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help you make implementation and system management decisions and tradeoffs. This strategy gives you the experience of installing and managing Exchange Server 2007 from a real world perspective because it provides time for you and the instructor to discuss previous experiences.

What you will learn
	After completing this course, students will be able to: Describe how Exchange Server 2007 and the Active Directory® directory service work together. Install Exchange Server 2007. Configure Mailbox server roles. Manage recipient objects. Manage e-mail addresses and address lists. Manage client access. Manage message transport. Manage availability, backup and recovery. Maintain the message system.

Prerequisites
	Before attending this course, students must have: Fundamental knowledge of network technologies including DNS and firewall technologies. Experience administering Exchange Server 2007. Experience with the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Experience with Active Directory® directory service in Windows Server 2003. Experience with 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 IIS Administrator Experience using Windows networking and troubleshooting tools such as Network Monitor, Telnet and NSLookup.

Audience
	The audience for this course includes people who are learning how to be enterprise-level messaging administrators. Others who may take this course include IT generalists and help desk professionals who want to learn about Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. People coming into the course are expected to have at least 3 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 versions of Exchange or with Exchange Server 2007.

Duration
	Three days, Instructor-led or eLearning

Course Outline

Module 1: “Overview of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and Active Directory® Directory Service” describes how Exchange Server 2007 integrates with the Active Directory directory service. In this module, you will learn how Active Directory is used by Exchange Server 2007 to store and access information.

Module 2, “Installing Exchange Server 2007” covers the information for performing a successful installation of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007. You will learn the roles that can be installed by Exchange Server. In addition, this module also discusses the infrastructure, hardware, and software requirements for introducing Exchange Server 2007 into a messaging environment. Finally, this module covers how to verify, troubleshoot, and secure the installation.

Module 3: “Configuring Mailbox Server Roles” explains that one of the most important components in an Exchange Server 2007 system is the Mailbox server role. The Mailbox server role is the most commonly implemented server role in Exchange Server, because it maintains user mailboxes. As an administrator, you should understand what the Mailbox server role does, how it works, and how to manage it.

Module 4: “Managing Recipient Objects” explains that managing recipient objects is a primary and fundamental task. Recipient objects are the Active Directory® directory service objects with Exchange-specific attributes defined, including an e-mail addresses. This module covers how Exchange Server uses these objects to manage mailboxes, manage address lists, and forward messages. In addition, you can configure public folders as recipients.

Module 5, “Managing E-Mail Addresses and Address Lists” describes that the initial configuration of a Microsoft® Exchange Server organization includes configuring the email domains for which it is responsible and configuring recipients with e-mail addresses. After this is complete, you can organize the recipients into address lists that are available to clients. It is important to know you can also use bulk management of recipients to quickly and efficiently make changes to many recipients.

Module 6, “Managing Client Access” covers how Exchange Server 2007 provides access to user mailboxes for many different clients. All non–MAPI clients access Exchange Server mailboxes through a Client Access server role. The importance of this module is that it provides details on how to implement the Client Access server role in Exchange Server 2007.

Module 7, “Managing Message Transport” describes how Exchange Server 2007 uses a new system for transporting messages when compared to previous versions of Exchange Server. In Exchange Server 2007, each of the Active Directory directory service sites where Exchange mailboxes are hosted must have a Hub Transport server role to control messaging between sites and even within a single site. This module describes how message transport is performed and how to configure the message transport pipeline.

Module 8, “Managing Availability, Backup, and Recovery” covers several methods of high availability for Mailbox server roles, and how to back up and restore computers running Exchange Server 2007.

Module 9, “Maintaining the Messaging System” explains change management and how it is an essential process used by organizations to ensure that system changes do not negatively impact system performance and reliability. This module also covers the types of updates that are likely to be required and process for implementing them.

We regularly offer classes in these and other cities. Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Montreal, New York City, Orlando, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC.