In Installing, Administering and Optimizing Exchange Server, you'll learn...
- Initial configuration settings to get you started with great performance and maximum stability
- Configure message tracking and logging to get a real picture of what’s happening on your server
- How to protect against viruses and other e-mail threats
- Techniques to eliminate downtime and keep your system running at peak performance
- And much more!
E-mail has become a critical tool for most companies. Even a short amount of downtime from a poorly performing or always crashing system can be extremely costly. As the system administrator or IT professional responsible for supporting your organization’s e-mail system, this workshop is must-have training. It concentrates on the real-world situations and challenges you face … like how to manage all-important security issues … getting peak performance out of your less-than-top-of-the-line equipment … the prerequisites for a successful install—this session alone could save hours or even days of frustration! These are just a few of the techniques this important workshop will give you for the effective administration of your Exchange servers. Register for this workshop today.
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Installing Exchange Server+
- What’s new in Exchange Server
- Introduction to Exchange Server 2007 Server Roles
- Understanding the Exchange Server Deployment Architecture
- How to use the Exchange Server Deployment Tools
- The right way to upgrade Exchange 5.5 or Exchange 2000 and the conditions that may prohibit you from upgrading your current version of Exchange
- The important steps to take before installing Exchange Server—there’s a lot more than you might imagine
- How to install and use the Exchange Server management tools
- The first things you need to do to begin using Exchange Server once you’ve installed it
Configuring Exchange Server+
- What a storage group and a store are and the best way to create them
- How to create administrative groups and how they are used in new releases of Exchange Server
- How to set a recipient policy and apply transport rules to filter message content
- How to configure your server to operate in mixed or native mode and how to switch server modes
- When to use the Exchange Management Console and when to use the Exchange Management Shell
- Step-by-step procedures to configure message tracking and SMTP logging
Implementing Exchange Server security+
- How to use the Exchange Management Console to simply delegate permissions to Exchange administrators
- How to set permissions on individual Exchange objects and how to set the Exchange extended permissions as well
- How to protect against viruses using the Edge Transport Server Role
- How to implement digital signatures and encryption functionality on your server
- Which services you should shut down and which ones need to be running on your server to provide maximum security
Managing Exchange Server recipients+
- Understanding the Exchange Management Console
- Managing recipients using the Exchange Management Shell
- Creating mailboxes from a previous list
- How to configure storage limits on individual mailboxes
- How to create mail-enabled groups and query-based distribution groups
- Using the Exchange Management Shell to make bulk recipient changes
Managing Exchange Server information storage+
- The right way to recover mailbox stores using a Recovery Storage Group
- How to create and control access to public folders
- How to quickly create a public folder index and allow client searches of the index for efficient information retrieval
- How to manage public folder replication and how to make public folders from one organization available to users in another organization
- How to use Exchange Server Management tools to create and manage storage groups
Administering Exchange Server message routing+
- How to create and administer routing groups
- How to install and configure various connectors such as SMTP, TCP/IP, X.400 and more
- When you should use an SMTP connector instead of a Routing Group connector
- How to configure the Hub Transport Server instead of the SMTP Virtual Server
- How to manage SMTP messages including message size limitations, number of recipients and undeliverable messages
Managing Exchange Server client connectivity+
- The role of the Client Access Server in Exchange and understand how to configure it for best use
- How to use the Autodiscover service in Exchange to set up your Outlook clients
- What you need to know about configuring POP3 and its limitations
- How to configure Outlook Web Access to allow client access via a Web browser
- How to configure IMAP4 on your Exchange Server
Exchange Server monitoring and troubleshooting+
- Which server resources you must monitor and which ones don’t really tell you anything about the performance of your system
- How to create administrative notifications that are automatically sent when a system problem occurs
- How to create diagnostic logs that can track specific logging levels such as minimum and maximum resource usage events
- How to configure and monitor message flow using message tracking
- Step-by-step troubleshooting techniques to solve virtually any problem you might encounter with your system, including disaster recovery techniques
