Exchange Server 2016 Administration with Real life scenarios

Learn to prepare and install Exchange Server 2016, including Active Directory schema and forest preparation, license acceptance, prerequisites, and initial setup steps.

Take a quick walk through Exchange Server 2016, access the admin center, review critical services like Information Store, and explore Active Directory security groups and recipient management in a lab.

Install Windows Server 2012 to add an additional domain controller for the New York office, configure it, and ensure connectivity to the Sacramento primary domain controller.

Install Exchange Server 2016 for the New York office as the second server after prerequisites. Copy files, run setup, and configure mailbox roles and services through steps 2–14.

Learn to create a user mailbox on the Exchange server by selecting user mailbox, configuring an alias, and choosing an Active Directory user or new account within an organizational unit.

Configure user mailbox properties, including display name, department, organization, and contact details, and manage mailbox usage limits, address list visibility, and delegation permissions.

Learn to create distribution, dynamic distribution, and mail-enabled security groups for departments, with ownership, open or closed membership, and automatic member resolution for streamlined mail delivery.

Learn to create resource mailboxes for rooms and equipment, enabling staff to reserve meeting spaces and projectors, and test booking through Outlook using practical lab steps.

Learn to create and configure a shared mailbox in Exchange Server 2016, grant access to multiple users, and enable sending and receiving emails from the shared mailbox.

Configure send as and send on behalf of permissions in Exchange Server 2016, enabling emails to be sent on behalf of a user and testing mailbox delegation and full access.

Install Windows 8.1 for the Sacramento office, rename and join the domain, and configure Outlook to test Exchange mail flow between Sacramento and New York.

Install and configure Outlook for the Sacramento office by provisioning Office 2016, verifying the Jeff Greene mailbox on the Sacramento Exchange server, and completing auto discovery and certificate considerations.

Install Windows 8.1 for New York office, configure a VM, assign IP, join domain, set up Outlook to send and receive with Sacramento using a shared mailbox and distribution groups.

Install and configure Outlook 2016 for the New York office, troubleshoot mailbox and contact conflicts, ensure Exchange Server accessibility, and prepare for sending and receiving emails.

Test and validate Exchange recipient configurations by provisioning and using distribution groups, dynamic distribution group, shared mailboxes, and resources mailboxes, then verify with real-world lab scenarios and troubleshooting steps.

Configure client access policies in Exchange server with Outlook Web App policies for the finance department. Restrict features like journalling, password changes, and calendar use, then apply via mailbox features.

Configure mobile access policies in Exchange Server 2016 by creating mailbox policies that enforce encryption, strong passwords, and device quarantine for noncompliant devices.

Learn to use in-place e-discovery and hold in Exchange Server 2016 to recover permanently deleted emails, manage compliance, and export results for users.

Learn how auditing tracks who accesses mailboxes and changes permissions in Exchange Server 2016, using reports, admin audit logs, e-discovery, and litigation hold to monitor administration across multiple admins.

Configure retention policies by creating retention tags and applying them to users or folders, set a retention period for delete or move to archive, with recoverable options.

Configure journaling in Exchange Server 2016 to copy all inbound and outbound messages to a dedicated journal mailbox, with rules for all users or specific groups.

Configure anti-malware in Exchange Server 2016 to protect against malware by creating a custom malware policy, selecting actions for detected attachments, and tailoring alerts and notifications for internal recipients.

Learn to move a user mailbox between mailbox databases in Exchange Server 2016, create and set the target database, run migration batches, and consider archiving and nearest location.

Understand database availability group basics for exchange 2016, including high availability without shared storage, up to 16 copies on the same Active Directory domain, and essential quorum and networking rules.

Configure an ip-less dag in exchange 2016, add dag members, designate a witness server, and copy mailbox databases across servers for high availability.