This two-day instructor-led clinic will provide IT Professionals with a broad awareness and understanding of the new features and tools of Exchange Server 2007.
Audience
This clinic is intended for current messaging IT Professional and generalists wanting to learn more about Exchange Server 2007. Students must be familiar with messaging technologies and have at least 6 months of experience using either Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003.
Session 1: Overview of Exchange Server 2007
This session introduces the most important new features of Exchange Server 2007. The clinic covers most of these features in more detail later. During the session, students are encouraged to think about the benefits to your organization of adopting Exchange Server 2007.
Lessons
Introducing Exchange Server 2007
Introducing the Exchange Server 2007 Architecture
Introducing the Exchange Server 2007 User Experience
Session Review
Demonstration:
Using the Calendaring Concierge
Create an appointment in Microsoft Office Outlook® Web Access (OWA) and move it around in the Work Week view to view the transparency feature
Use advanced calendar features in OWA to create and modify a meeting
View the schedule of a resource
Demonstration:
Using the New Features in OWA
Use the Out-of-Office Assistant
Access shared documents in OWA
Using Search in OWA
After completing this session, students will be able to:
Contrast the features of Exchange Server 2007 with earlier versions of the software.
Describe how to make the best use of the new features of the Exchange Server 2007 architecture.
Describe how Exchange Server 2007 will benefit users.
Summarize the most important new features of Exchange Server 2007.
Lab 1: Installing Exchange Server 2007
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Installing Exchange Server 2007 by using GUI.
Verifying a successful Exchange Server 2007 installation.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Installing Exchange Server Using the Graphical User Interface
Exercise 2: Verifying a Successful Exchange Server Installation
Session 2: Overview of Exchange Server 2007 Administration
This session describes new features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that have the greatest potential for reducing the workload of administrators.
Lessons
Installing Exchange Server 2007
Introduction to Exchange Server 2007 Administration Tools
Administering Recipients
Configuring Exchange Server 2007
Administering Client Access Servers
Session Review
Demonstration:
Scripting Exchange Management Shell Tasks
Use the Exchange Management Console to change the telephone number for some users in the organization
Use the Exchange Management Shell to change the telephone number for all users in the organization
Use the Exchange Management Shell to change the telephone number for all users that have a name beginning with K
Demonstration:
Creating and Moving Recipients
Create and move a mailbox using the Exchange Management Console
Create and move multiple mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell
Demonstration:
Configuring Server Roles by Using the GUI
Configuring the Mailbox Server Role
Configuring the Client Access Server Role
Administering Bridgehead Settings
After completing this session, students will be able to:
Compare the GUI method of installation to the command-line method of installation.
Compare the Exchange Management Console to the Exchange Management Shell and evaluate which to use in a given situation.
Evaluate how Exchange Server 2007 introduces efficiencies into the administration of recipients.
List best practices for the administration of Exchange Server 2007.
Compare Exchange Server 2007 client access servers with front-end servers in earlier versions of Exchange Server.
Identify how the administration of Exchange Server 2007 requires less time than the administration of previous versions of Exchange Server.
Lab 2: Administering Exchange Server 2007
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Administering an Exchange Server 2007 organization using the Exchange Management Console.
Administering an Exchange Server 2007 organization using the Exchange Management Shell.
Creating basic scripts to automate administrative tasks in an Exchange Server organization.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Using the Exchange Management Console
Exercise 2: Using the Exchange Management Shell
Exercise 3: Creating Administrative Scripts
Lab 3: Administering Server Rules and Mailboxes
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Creating an Exchange Management Shell script to balance mailboxes across multiple mailbox databases.
Configuring Exchange Server 2007 AutoDiscovery.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Moving Mailboxes Between Mailbox Stores
Exercise 2: Configuring Exchange Server 2007 AutoDiscovery
Session 3: Overview of Exchange Server 2007 Architecture
This session describes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server roles and enables you to choose where to deploy a given server role. It also describes how Exchange Server can help you to comply with messaging regulations and how Exchange Server 2007 achieves high availability.
Lessons
Introduction to Exchange Server Roles
Implementing Security, Compliance, and Archiving
High Availability
Session Review
Demonstration:
Adding Server Roles by Using the Command Line
Adding the Unified Messaging role to the MTL-MSG2 server
After completing this session, students will be able to:
Evaluate which Exchange server role is appropriate in a given scenario.
Discuss how Exchange Server 2007 can improve an organization’s security and compliance with corporate policies.
Describe how higher availability can be achieved with Exchange Server 2007 than with earlier versions of Exchange Server.
List the major improvements to the Exchange Server architecture and the advantages of each improvement.
Lab 4: Configuring Server Mail Flow and Rules
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Performing a command-line installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Enforcing compliance by creating an ethical firewall.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Performing a Command-Line Installation of Exchange Server 2007
Exercise 2: Enforcing Compliance by Creating an Ethical Firewall
Lab 5: Using and Administering Exchange Server 2007 Client Access
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Administering a Client Access Server.
Using the new features of OWA.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Administering a Client Access Server
Exercise 2: Using Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access
Lab 6: Setting Up Policies, Archiving, and Compliance
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in
Configuring e-mail life-cycle policies.
Exercise
Exercise: Configuring E-Mail Life-Cycle Policies
Lab 7: Using Exchange Server 2007 Local Continuous Replication
This hands-on lab provides the student with experience in:
Administering and using Local Continuous Replication to provide increased resilience in the event of disk failure.
Exercise
Exercise: Using Exchange Server 2007 Local Continuous Replication
Session 4: Overview of Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007
This session describes Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007. During this session, you will learn how you can use Unified Messaging to give users unprecedented access to their messages, both in the office and at remote locations.
Lessons
Unified Messaging
Session Review
Demonstration:
Administering U
Before attending this clinic, students must:
- Work regularly with Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003.
- Work regularly with Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003.
- Work regularly with Active Directory® directory service.
- Possess fundamental networking knowledge and experience.
- Possess fundamental Windows Server 2003 knowledge and experience.
After completing this Clinic, students will be able to:
- Contrast the features of Exchange Server 2007 with earlier versions of the software.
- Describe how to make the best use of the new features of the Exchange Server 2007 architecture.
- Describe how Exchange Server 2007 will benefit users.
- Summarize the most important new features of Exchange Server 2007.
- Compare the graphical user interface (GUI) method of installation to the command-line method of installation.
- Compare the Exchange Management Console to the Exchange Management Shell and evaluate which to use in a given situation.
- Evaluate how Exchange Server 2007 introduces efficiencies into the administration of recipients.
- List best practices for the administration of Exchange Server 2007.
- Compare Exchange Server 2007 client access servers with front-end servers in earlier versions of Exchange Server.
- Identify how the administration of Exchange Server 2007 requires less time than the administration of previous versions of Exchange Server.
- Evaluate which Exchange server role is appropriate in a given scenario.
- Discuss how Exchange Server 2007 can improve your organization’s security and compliance with corporate policies.
- Describe how you can achieve higher availability with Exchange Server 2007 than with earlier versions of Exchange Server.
- List the major improvements to the Exchange Server architecture and the advantages of each improvement.
- List best practices for enabling users to access their messages.
- Summarize the features of Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging.