Microsoft 365 Messaging Admin Exchange Online Course w/ SIMS

Master how to access assignments and simulations: start the assignment, right-click the 'click here' button and open in a new tab, then submit; certificates rely on video checkboxes, not assignments.

Set up a lab with Microsoft 365 and Azure, sign up for an Office 365 E5 trial to activate Microsoft 365 E5, and start a 30-day Teams trial via portal.microsoft.com.

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.

Understand offline address books (OABs) and how they provide a downloadable address list for users when offline, with admin control, automatic eight-hour updates, and steps to download in Outlook.

Grant the address list admin role in exchange online, then create or remove an offline address book with PowerShell and manage user access via Outlook.

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.

Learn how to redo simulations after completing an assignment by navigating to summary, returning to the assignment, and opening the instructions to access the simulation link.

Identify recipients and resources in Exchange Online, including user and shared mailboxes, mail contacts, room and equipment mailboxes, distribution groups, and Microsoft 365 groups.

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.

Create a shared mailbox in Exchange Online via the Exchange Admin Center. Configure delegation and permissions such as full access and send as, then verify in Outlook on the web.

Create and manage mail contacts and mail users in the Exchange admin center, configuring external addresses, display names, and aliases, and verify their presence in the global address list.

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.

Configure accepted and remote domains in microsoft 365 admin center, prove ownership with dns text records, and manage mail flow settings such as mx records and out of office options.

Explore how Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Defender for Office 365 layer security for hybrid and on-prem email, including anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-malware, safe links, and safe attachments.

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.

Analyze non-delivery reports (nwdrs) in Exchange Online by examining message trace, headers, and status codes to troubleshoot failed deliveries, often caused by typos or blocked emails.

Learn how to manage default and custom admin role groups in exchange online, including global, exchange, recipient, and discovery management roles, and create tailored role groups.

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 privileged identity management in Azure enables you to assign eligible roles, activate roles with MFA, set activation duration, and review access, using a practical Chris Jones example.

Activate a privileged identity management role for a user in azure active directory, verify with mfa, set an 8-hour activation window, and enable user creation capabilities.

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 anti-spam policies in microsoft 365, covering inbound and outbound rules, connection filtering, bulk email thresholds, spam scores, url checks, and safe or block lists.

Explore anti-malware management in Exchange Online, including default policies, attachment protection, zero hour auto-purge, quarantine settings, and admin notifications to quickly detect, quarantine, and release infected messages.

configure and manage safe attachments with a detonation chamber to analyze and block, monitor, or replace malicious files, with dynamic delivery and quarantine policies.

Configure safe links with a protection policy to analyze email URLs in a detonation chamber VM, rewrite links, perform real-time URL scanning, and apply policies to emails within your organization.

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.

Identify and manage inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online using Purview retention policies and litigation holds, and use PowerShell to locate, preserve, and restore as needed.

Centralize exchange online auditing in purview; explore search by dates, items, and users, then export reports or use PowerShell for admin audit logs.

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.

Explore content searches in Microsoft Purview, set eDiscovery roles and permissions, specify search locations, and export results with deduplication and reporting.

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.