Administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2016

About this Course

This 5-day instructor-led course teaches IT professionals how to administer and support Exchange Server 2016. Students will learn how to install Exchange Server 2016, and how to configure and manage an Exchange Server environment. The course covers how to manage mail recipients and public folders, including how to perform bulk operations using Exchange Management Shell. Students also will learn how to manage client connectivity, message transport and hygiene, how to implement and manage highly available Exchange Server deployments, and how to implement back up and disaster recovery solutions. 

The course also teaches students how to maintain and monitor an Exchange Server 2016 deployment. In addition, students will learn how to administer Exchange Online in an Office 365 deployment.

Audience Profile

This course is primarily intended for people aspiring to become enterprise-level messaging administrators for Exchange Server 2016. IT generalists and help-desk professionals who want to learn about Exchange Server 2016 might also take this course. Students taking this course are expected to have at least two years of experience working in the IT field—typically in the areas of Windows Server administration, network administration, help desk, or system administration. They are not expected to have experience with previous Exchange Server versions.

The secondary audience for this course includes IT professionals who take this course as preparation material for exam 70-345: Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, or as part of the requirement for the MCSE: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 certification.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to

• Perform deployment and basic management of Exchange Server 2016.
• Manage Exchange Server 2016.
• Create and manage various recipient objects in Exchange Server 2016.
• Use Exchange Management Shell to create and manage various recipient objects in Exchange Server 2016, and perform various tasks to automate Exchange management procedures.
• Configure client connectivity to Exchange Server 2016, and manage Client Access services.
• Implement and manage high availability.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery for Exchange Server 2016.
• Configure message transport options.
• Configure message hygiene and security options.
• Implement and manage Exchange Online deployments.
•  Monitor and troubleshoot Exchange Server 2016.
• Secure and maintain Exchange Server 2016.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A minimum two years of experience administering Windows Server, including Windows Server 2012 R@ or Windows Server 2016.
• A minimum two years’ experience working with active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).  
• A minimum two years of experience working with name resolution including Domain Name System (DNS).
• Understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts.
• Understanding of Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, and AD DS, including planning, designing, and deploying.
• Understanding of security concepts such as authentication and authorization.
• Understanding of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
• Working knowledge of public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies, including Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS).

MS 20740-Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016

About this course

This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.

Audience profileThis course is intended for IT professionals who have some experiencing working with Windows Server, and who are looking for a single five-day course that covers storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016. This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server 2016.

Candidates suitable for this course would be:

• Windows Server administrators who are relatively new to Windows Server administration and related technologies, and who want to learn more about the storage and compute features in Windows Server 2016.

• IT professionals with general IT knowledge, who are looking to gain knowledge about Windows Server, especially around storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016.

The secondary audience for this course are IT professionals looking to take the Microsoft 70-740 certification exam, Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016.At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy.
• Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes.
• Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation.
• Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.
• Install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Deploy, configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers.
• Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016.
• Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster.
• Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation.
• Create and manage deployment images.
• Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.