Microsoft Exchange 2000 - Technical Overview

Audience

This course is appropriate for Technical Managers System Administrators and Network Administrators. Participants should be proficient with the features and functionality of groupware or messaging applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 or later. Additionally participants should have hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Windows 2000 with an emphasis in using Active Directory.

Objective

• Match the design goals of Exchange 2000 Server with the features that support them.
• Describe the concepts related to Active Directory and the uses of the security subsystems.
• Identify the method that will be used to modify a schema in a given situation.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that contribute to its increased reliability scalability and performance.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enable easy access to information and enhance its viewing and searching capabilities.
• Describe the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enhance its collaboration with Web based applications.
• Identify the areas in which Exchange 2000 Server enhances platform services for unified messaging and the enhancements to Outlook Web Access.
• Describe the features of Exchange 2000 Server that provide anytime communication to increase worker productivity.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Active Directory and Schema

• Match the design goals for Exchange 2000 Server with the features that support the design goals.
• Select the benefits of integrating Exchange 2000 Server with Active Directory.
• Match the types of operations masters with their functions.
• Select the benefits of using the ADC.
• Identify the method that will be used to modify a schema in a specified situation.
• Select the considerations for deactivating a schema component.
• Match the components of the security subsystem with their functions.

Unit 2: Reliability Administration and Security

• Match the features of multiple message databases with the benefits they provide.
• Match the features of storage groups with their benefits.
• Select the features of Active/Active clustering in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enable a distributed configuration to be implemented.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enhance its performance for Internet mail messaging.
• Select the MMC feature used to perform a specific administrative task.
• Match the tasks that can be performed using CDO for Exchange Management in Exchange 2000 Server with their applications.
• Identify the features of policy-based administration in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Match the security features of Windows 2000 Server that provide security for Exchange 2000 Server with their uses.

Unit 3: Information Access and Web Applications

• Match the features of the Web Store with the benefits they provide.
• Select the features of Exchange 2000 Server that provide enhanced viewing and searching capabilities over Exchange 5.5 Server.
• Match the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enable it to collaborate with Web-based applications with the benefits they provide.
• Identify the benefits of integrating programming interfaces in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the enhancements to CDO 1.2 that are provided by Exchange 2000 Server in CDO 3.0.
• Match the various types of events in Exchange 2000 Server with their uses.

Unit 4: Anytime Access to Information

• Identify the enhancements to Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that provide unified messaging capabilities.
• Identify the features of Exchange 2000 Server that enable anytime communication.
• Match the key areas of data conferencing with their uses.
• Select the enhancements to the Exchange 5.5 Server chat services that are introduced in Exchange 2000 Server.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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