Introduction

This one-day course teaches messaging specialists to recover Exchange mailboxes and servers in a variety of disaster scenarios. Students will learn how to perform full and dial-tone recoveries of a mailbox server, as well as repair a mailbox database. They will also learn how to perform a full recovery of Client Access servers, Hub Transport servers, Unified Messaging servers, and Edge Transport servers.

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

• Working knowledge of malware.
• Working knowledge of how PKI is managed in the directory.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server 2003 operating system.
• Working knowledge of network technologies.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory directory service.
• Working knowledge of Exchange Server 2007.
• Conceptual understanding of firewalls.
• Conceptual understanding of e-mail technologies.
• Experience using these tools and applications: NT Backup, NSLookup, Microsoft Windows Explorer, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Sites and Services, Internet Information Services (IIS) Admin, Microsoft Office Outlook
• Completion of the following equivalent knowledge: Course 5047A: Introduction to Installing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Recover messaging databases.
• Prepare for and recover from Mailbox server failures.
• Prepare for and recover from non-Mailbox server failures.