Introduction

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design a messaging infrastructure. Students will learn to assess an existing infrastructure and determine technical and business requirements for both new Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 deployments and migrations. Students will create a design that addresses security, architecture, scalability, coexistence, and client access needs. They also will learn strategies for gaining approval for designs from stakeholders.

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

• Gather business and technical requirements for a messaging infrastructure.
• Design an Active Directory directory service and message routing infrastructure.
• Design the hardware and system configuration for Exchange servers.
• Design security for the messaging environment.
• Design strategies for coexistence and interoperability.
• Design a strategy for upgrading to Exchange Server 2007.
• Design messaging policies.
• Obtain approval for a messaging infrastructure design.

Outcomes

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

• Use the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 to monitor Exchange servers.
• Monitor and troubleshoot client performance and connectivity, mail flow, Mailbox servers, and external and additional services.
• Identify and resolve issues related to access of resources and messages.
• Identify trends in a messaging system.