This course consist of three modules to help you prepare for the MS-200 exam:
In this course, you will learn about the architecture of the modern messaging infrastructure with Exchange Server and Exchange Online and how to deploy messaging in different scenarios and organizations.
You will be guided through the initial deployment process and introduced to the messaging management tools. You will learn how to create and manage different types of recipients, and how to create and manage Exchange Server mailbox databases, which serve as storage locations for all messaging data.
Finally, you will be introduced to messaging infrastructure organizational settings, such as how to manage authentication for your messaging environment, how to configure quotas for users in the organization, and how to configure organization sharing with federation.
Because all messaging clients access Exchange Server mailboxes through client access services, we will examine how to plan, configure, and manage client access services in Exchange Server.
Since using smartphones and tablets for messaging has become very popular, and because many smartphone users use their devices intensively for email, calendar, tasks, and other collaboration purposes, you will also learn how to manage mobile devices.
This course also describes the planning and configuring message transport in an Exchange Server organization. You will learn how to plan, configure and manage transport services to provide efficient communication between your Exchange Servers, Exchange Online, and other mail servers on the Internet.
Finally, you will learn how to troubleshoot transport services when issues occur in different scenarios so that you can provide your organization with a healthy and reliable messaging infrastructure.
Messaging systems have become increasingly complex, given the abundance of new features that have been added in the last few years, as well as the increased importance placed on availability and disaster recovery.
The traditional approaches for high availability and disaster recovery are still present and exist primarily on the hardware layer, such as RAID systems for storage, block device replication, and archiving solutions using external storage.
While Microsoft Exchange supports these traditional approaches, it also offers solutions that modernize high availability and disaster recovery by providing solutions directly integrated into the messaging systems. This includes such things as continuous replication and retention solutions that are built directly inside the message databases. This saves administrators a lot of time and effort maintaining different layers of foreign solutions on hardware and software.
In this course, you’ll be introduced to each solution, you’ll learn when to use one or the other, you’ll learn how to plan deployment, and how to perform the actual implementation.
The Messaging Administrator deploys, configures, manages, and troubleshoots recipients, permissions, mail protection, mail flow, and public folders in both on-premises and cloud enterprise environments. Responsibilities include managing message hygiene, messaging infrastructure, and hybrid configuration and migration.
The Messaging Administrator also implements and manages disaster recovery, high availability, and client access. The Messaging Administrator collaborates with the Security Administrator and Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator to implement a secure hybrid topology that meets the business needs of a modern organization. The Messaging Administrator should have a working knowledge of authentication types, licensing, and integration with Microsoft 365 applications.
Knowledge and skills as an administrator of an Office365 environment are necessary to complete this course.
This bundled course helps to prepare for exam MS-200, Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform. This exam is the first part of the certification as a Microsoft Messaging Administrator. To complete this certification you also should pass exam MS-201.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Module 1 - Managing Modern Messaging Infrastructure
Module 2 - Managing Recipient Objects and Resources
Module 3 - Managing Mailbox Databases
Module 4 - Managing Organizational Settings
Lab: Managing Recipient Infrastructure
Module 1 - Managing Client Access
Module 2 - Managing Mobile Devices
Module 3 - Managing the Transport Pipeline
Module 4 - Managing and Troubleshooting Mail Flow
Lab: Managing Client Access and Mail Flow
Module 1 - High Availability for Exchange Servers
Module 2 - Managing Disaster Recovery
Module 3 - Managing Public Folders
Lab: Public Folder Management and Disaster Recovery
Exercise 2: Troubleshooting Mail Flow and Connectivity Issues
Exercise 2: Disaster recovery using eDiscovery and In-place Holds
