Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Discover how Exchange provides storage and management for email, calendars, and address books, routes mail via Active Directory, and supports Outlook and Outlook Web Access through the Exchange Administration Center.

Explore Exchange Server 2013 server roles: mailbox server, client access server, and edge transport server, with embedded hub transport, unified messaging, and ADAM with Edge Sync for security and compliance.

Discover how Exchange Server and Active Directory rely on DNS, why Microsoft recommends DNS domain controllers and AD integrated DNS zones, and split-brain DNS with internal and external namespaces.

Domain controllers run on Windows Server and host Active Directory domain services, storing domain objects and forest information, authenticating users, and replicating data for fault tolerance.

Discover how global catalog servers act as white pages for Active Directory across domains and forests, helping Exchange locate mailboxes and route messages, with a single global catalog per site.

Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 covers daily and periodic database maintenance, including continuous online defragmentation, online data compaction, contiguity maintenance, backups, mail flow checks, disk space monitoring, and performance monitoring.

Learn how a mail user in Exchange 2013 uses an active directory account to access resources, while routing mail to an external email address instead of maintaining a separate mailbox.

Create and manage dynamic distribution groups that query Active Directory in real time to populate recipients when emails arrive, using rules based on state, province, and department.

Learn how to manage recipient permissions in Exchange by delegating access to mailboxes, including send as, send on behalf of, and full access, via the Exchange Admin Center.

Explore storage configuration options for Exchange 2013, comparing storage architectures and physical disk types, while ensuring Active Directory integration, database availability groups, and separate database and log disks.

Create customized address lists to subdivide default and global address lists, then use Exchange admin center rules to filter by state such as Tennessee and test in Outlook Web App.

Discover high availability concepts in Exchange 2013, including five nines uptime, Windows network load balancing, and database availability groups that replicate mailbox databases across servers.

Exchange 2013 eliminates multi-master public folders and directs users to the nearest replica via Active Directory, so place heavily used folders on separate mailbox servers near users to balance load.

Explore configuring virtual directories in exchange server 2013: manage via EAC, the exchange management shell, and IIS manager, covering auto discover, Outlook Web application, ECP, and offline address book settings.

Learn to set up and execute an Exchange 2013 backup using Windows Server Backup, choosing a mailbox database for backup and testing restore in a lab environment.