Microsoft Exchange 2000 - New Features

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

• Identify the benefits of AD integration a situation in which the ADC can reduce migration costs and stores and storage groups can be used.
• Select the benefits of clustering distributed configuration SMTP routing and the security features.
• Select the benefits of the Exchange 2000 Server Web Store fulltext content indexing Outlook Web Access the event triggered by Exchange 2000 Server in a situation and the services provided by the Internet protocols used in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the benefits of the messaging and groupware features provided by Exchange 2000.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Scalability and Reliability

• Identify the benefits of Active Directory integration to network administrators.
• Identify the benefits of Active Directory integration to network users.
• Select a situation in which the Active Directory Connector can be used to reduce the costs of migrating to Exchange 2000 Server.
• Select a situation in which deploying multiple message databases improves the reliability and scalability of Exchange 2000 Server.
• Select a situation in which the Storage Groups feature of Exchange 2000 Server can be used.
• Select the benefits of the Active/Active clustering feature of Exchange 2000 Server.
• Select the benefits of a distributed configuration of Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the benefits of the fault-tolerant SMTP routing used by Exchange 2000 Server.
• Match the security features of Windows 2000 Server with the benefits that they provide to Exchange 2000 Server.

Unit 2: Web Integration

• Select the benefits of using the Exchange 2000 Server Web Store in a particular situation.
• Match the Internet protocols that are used in Exchange 2000 Server with the services they provide.
• Identify the benefits of full-text content indexing in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the event sink fired by Exchange 2000 Server in a particular situation.
• Identify the most significant benefit of using Outlook Web Access to access an Exchange 2000 server in a specified situation.

Unit 3: Groupware Features

• Identify the benefits of implementing a unified messaging solution by using Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the benefits of using newsgroups on an Exchange 2000 server.
• Select the most significant benefit of using Exchange 2000 Server-based data and voice conferencing in a specified scenario.
• Identify the benefits of using IP multicast on Exchange 2000 Server.
• Select the most significant benefit of the Instant Messaging feature of Exchange 2000 in a specific situation.
• Identify the benefits of using enhanced chat services on 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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