Building an Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Infrastructure: Hands-On

Exchange Server 2010 Architecture

• Identifying the Exchange Server roles
• Investigating the Exchange Management Console (EMC)
• Analysing the new remote Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and PowerShell

Maximising High-Availability Exchange

Leveraging high availability through Database Availability Groups (DAG)

• Creating and managing Database Availability Groups
• Configuring DAG Properties
• Mailbox database copies
• Database activation

Transporting and Routing E-mail

Processing of agent-submitted e-mail

• Scoping out e-mail content conversion
• Generating DSN message packages

Defining intraorganisational routing components

• Configuring Active Directory sites and site links
• Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service
• Reviewing routing group functions for transitional organisations, including RGCs and SMTP

Configuring interorganisational routing components

• Overview of the Edge Transport Server role
• Preparing the list of accepted domains
• Testing out Active Directory site-based routing

Investigating the moderated Exchange transport

• Pickup and replay directories
• Send and Receive connectors
• Processing recipient resolution
• Shadow redundancy

Creating a Security Model for Exchange 2010

Implementing TLS in Exchange 2010

• Reviewing Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Deploying inbound and outbound anonymous TLS certificates
• Setting up inbound STARTTLS certificates

Exchange 2010 Transport Engine functions

• Testing MailTips functionality for Outlook 2010 and OWA
• Inspecting the SMTP firewall for mail header processing
• Analysing message flow with Shadow Redundancy

Federation Trusts for Exchange organisations

• Creating and managing Federation Trusts
• Organising Federated Organisation identifiers
• Defining Federation Trust properties

Defining Permission Sets with RBAC

Setting up Exchange access

• Differentiating between Exchange and Windows administration
• Coexisting Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 permissions
• Scoping out Cross-Forest Permissions Management

Role-based access control

• Addressing the Exchange 2010 management roles
• Building a tailored management role assignment policy

Built-in management roles

• Defining the Exchange 2010 organization management structure
• Setting up View-Only organisation management

Setting up Exchange Policies

Specifying message classifications and metadata

• Analysing message metadata
• Classifying Outlook messages for transport rule processing

Applying message journaling

• Positioning Exchange message journaling in respect of legal and regulatory requirements
• Applying standard mailbox database journaling
• Assigning a user with premium message journaling

Integrating Compliance Features

Leveraging message records management

• Applying retention tags to categorise messages
• Configuring AutoTagging to simplify message classification

Setting up rights protection

• Configuring the Active Directory Rights Management Service
• Assessing the AD RMS prelicensing agent
• Building ControlPoint Encryption
• Editing AD RMS Rights Policy templates

Creating a Discovery Search

• Configuring the Discovery engine
• Performing a Search
• Inspecting the Discovery Management role
• Reviewing Advanced Query Syntax

Automating the e-mail archive

• Defining archive and retention policies
• Applying provisional settings for personal archiving
• Creating retention policy tags