Designing a Messaging Infrastructure using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Audience Profile: This course is intended for people with three or more years experience working with previous Exchange Server versions and experience implementing Exchange Server 2007.

Most students will have managed enterprise-level Exchange Server organizations.

Students are expected to be new to participating in designing Exchange Server 2007 deployments on the job or to be planning to design Exchange Server 2007 deployments in the near future.

Students may have done some design for Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 deployments, but want to learn how to design Exchange Server 2007 environments.

Students will also have experience in designing and managing Active Directory directory services and network infrastructure deployments.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Gather business and technical requirements for a messaging infrastructure.

Design an Active Directory directory service and message routing infrastructure.

Design the hardware and system configuration for Exchange servers.

Design security for the messaging environment.

Design strategies for coexistence and interoperability.

Design a strategy for upgrading to Exchange Server 2007.

Design messaging policies.

Obtain approval for a messaging infrastructure design.

Gathering Business Requirements

Identifying Additional Requirements

Analyzing the Current Messaging Environment

Creating a Requirements Document

Evaluating an Existing Messaging Infrastructure

Creating a Requirements Document

Discussion: Real-World Best Practices for Setting Budget Expectations

Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

Designing Message Routing

Designing the Message Routing Perimeter

Designing a Message Routing Topology

Designing a Messaging Perimeter

Discussion: Improving an Active Directory and Message Routing Desig

Designing Mailbox Servers

Designing Non-Mailbox Servers

Designing a Public Folder Architecture

Designing a Lab Environment

Planning an Exchange Server Deployment

Defining Test Lab Requirement

Designing an Administrative Model

Designing Message Security

Designing Antivirus and Anti-spam Solutions

Designing an Administrative Model

Designing Message Security

Designing Antivirus and Anti-spam Solutions

Designing Exchange Recipient and Message Policies

Designing Mobile Device Policies

Designing Messaging Policies for Compliance

Designing Messaging Policies

Overview of Coexistence and Interoperability with Other Messaging Systems

Designing a Coexistence Strategy with Previous Exchange Versions

Designing an Interoperability Strategy with Other Messaging Systems

Designing a Coexistence Strategy with Exchange 2000 Server

Designing an Interoperability Strategy

Overview of Available Upgrade Strategies

Designing a Transition From Previous Versions of Exchange

Designing a Migration From Other Messaging Systems

Discussion: Reviewing the Exchange Server 2007 Design

Designing an Upgrade Strategy

Preparing to Obtain Approval

Presenting and Finalizing a Design

Presenting a Messaging Infrastructure Design

Discussion: Characteristics of Effective Design Review Processes