Microsoft 365 Messaging Admin Exchange Online Course w/ SIMS

Learn how to create a free Microsoft 365 and Azure trial, verify with a phone number, and cancel after 30 days while navigating marketplace changes.

Explore how the default global address list populates from licensed users and groups in the 365 admin center and outlook on the web, and manage it with exchange online PowerShell.

Manage address book policies in Exchange Online with PowerShell, creating global address lists, address lists, room lists, and offline address books, then assign policies to users via recipient filters.

Configure Outlook web app policies in the Exchange admin center to restrict features, create a demo policy, and apply it to a user, noting a 15-45 minute delay.

Assign licenses to users to create Exchange Online mailboxes; licenses automatically provision mailboxes. Manage mailbox settings, delegation permissions, and policies in the Exchange Admin Center.

Create and configure room and equipment resources in the exchange admin center, including name, capacity, location, and booking rules, then learn how users book them in Outlook.

Learn how to manage mailbox permissions in Exchange Online, including full access, and delegation, with send as and send on behalf options, using the Exchange Admin Center.

Learn to create and manage public folders in Exchange Online, including mail-enabled folders and permissions, while noting Microsoft is de-emphasizing this feature in favor of SharePoint and OneDrive.

Learn hybrid migrations to exchange online using the exchange admin center, create migration batches, and select migration types such as remote move, cut over, cross tenant, google workspace, or iMap.

Compare the newer Exchange Online migration via the portal and the older Hybrid Configuration Wizard, outlining prerequisites, PowerShell 5.5 requirements, and migration options such as cutover and stage migration.

Plan and configure exchange connectors in the Exchange admin center to control mail flow between on premises and Microsoft 365. Learn when to use connectors, routing options, and security considerations.

Plan and implement mail flow rules in Exchange Online to block outside emails, apply disclaimers, and enforce policy through the Exchange Admin Center with testing and auditing.

Understand how email authentication uses SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to prevent spoofing and phishing. Learn how DNS TXT records and mail headers verify sending servers and protect message integrity.

Learn how to implement email authentication with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC by adding DNS TXT and CNAME records with your registrar, verifying domains, and handling propagation delays.

Track and analyze emails in Exchange Online with message trace, reviewing delivery status and quarantines using the Exchange Admin Center or the git dash historical search PowerShell.

Learn to view header details in Outlook on the web and Outlook, inspect TLS 1.2, SPF, and DKIM results, and analyze headers with a header analyzer such as Azurewebsites.net.

Explore how to use PowerShell to search and filter RBAC roles in Exchange Online, including locating role groups, filtering role entries, and inspecting role memberships.

Explore how privileged identity management (PIM) works with RBAC in Azure AD, enabling just-in-time, time-bound admin access with approvals, MFA, and audit history.

Explore how to create and assign custom user role policies in Exchange Online, granting managers selective permissions while avoiding full mailbox admin rights, using both the graphical portal and PowerShell.

The instructor explains that the course videos are split into smaller segments to align with exam objectives, warns of occasional cut-offs, and reassures that the next video will resume seamlessly.

Configure and manage anti-phishing policies in Microsoft Defender for Office 365, using threat policies and presets to apply impersonation protection, spoof intelligence, and safe links and attachments.

Configure and manage quarantine policies in Microsoft 365 by creating custom quarantine policies, defining recipient access and release actions, and evaluating Microsoft Defender without impacting production.

Configure a Microsoft 365 retention policy for a specific mailbox using Microsoft Purview, choosing static or adaptive scopes and applying a retain forever setting for John Christopher.

Enable the archive mailbox (in-place archiving) in Exchange Online for individual users via the admin center, and use PowerShell to enable it for multiple users with retention policies.

Configure journal rules in exchange online to copy emails to an external address, such as Gmail, using Microsoft Purview, with settings for undeliverable reports and a specific user.

Admins use Purview eDiscovery (standard or premium) to search across Teams, Exchange, and SharePoint, create cases, and apply legal holds to prevent deletion while exporting results.