Microsoft Exchange 2000 Infrastructure Design Part 4

Audience

Candidates for this course operate in medium to very large computing environments that use Exchange 2000 Server Windows 2000 Active Directory and Internet Information Server (IIS). They have a minimum of one year's experience administering Microsoft Exchange environments that have the following characteristics: Multiple physical locations Mixed client connection protocols such as POP3 IMAP4 MAPI NNTP and HTTP Internet messaging connectivity Connectivity to foreign mail systems. Course Prerequisites: This course deals with the deployment of Exchange 2000 server and the resolving of problems that may occur with during the process of deployment.

Objective

• Identify the guidelines for deploying single routing groups.
• Identify the guidelines for deploying multiple routing groups.
• Create a new routing group.
• Identify the features of Message Application Programming Interface (MAPI).
• Identify the features of Post Office Protocol v. 3 (POP3) and Internet Mail Access Protocol v. 4 (IMAP4).
• Identify the features of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol.
• Identify the factors to consider when creating a maintenance plan.
• Identify the guidelines for testing an Exchange 2000 Server system implementation.
• Identify the elements of Exchange 2000 Server trend analysis.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Network Structure

• Identify the guidelines for deploying single routing groups.
• Identify the guidelines for deploying multiple routing groups.
• Create a new routing group.
• Create a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) connector.
• Identify the considerations for using single administrative groups.
• Identify the factors to consider when creating administrative groups.
• Identify the guidelines for adding administrative groups.
• Create an administrative group.
• Configure administrative groups.

Unit 2: Deploying a Messaging Solution

• Identify the features of Message Application Programming Interface (MAPI).
• Identify the features of Post Office Protocol v. 3 (POP3) and Internet Mail Access Protocol v. 4 (IMAP4).
• Identify the features of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol.
• Identify the features of clustering in Exchange 2000 Server.
• Identify the guidelines for implementing cluster services.
• Identify the guidelines for selecting a load planning strategy.
• Identify the guidelines for upgrading an Exchange 5.5 cluster.
• Identify the factors to consider when installing Windows clustering.
• Install Exchange 2000 Server on the first cluster node.
• Create an Exchange 2000 Server cluster group.
• Create an IP address resource.
• Create a network name resource.
• Move the Local Quorum resource to a cluster group.
• Sequence the steps involved in creating a system attendant cluster resource.

Unit 3: Maintenance Policies and Troubleshooting

• Identify the factors to consider when creating a maintenance plan.
• Identify the guidelines for testing an Exchange 2000 Server system implementation.
• Identify the elements of Exchange 2000 Server trend analysis.
• Identify the methods for monitoring Exchange 2000 Server performance.
• Identify the methods of recovering space on a hard disk.
• Set the maintenance schedule in Information Store (IS).
• Identify the features of Eseutil.
• Identify the tools for diagnosing and correcting Exchange 2000 Server problems.
• Identify the guidelines for troubleshooting connection problems.
• Select the optimal solutions to some deployment problems.

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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