Microsoft 70-341: Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013

Deploy Exchange Server 2013 by addressing Active Directory dependencies and installing the Exchange 2013 server with the extended management tools.

Identify Exchange 2013 Active Directory dependencies, review prerequisites for Active Directory before putting Exchange servers in place, and review software and hardware requirements for preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2013.

Explore Active Directory fundamentals, including forest roots, domains and trees, global catalog servers, and how domain controllers maintain separate NTDS.dit databases and back up system state for restore.

Understand the three essential Active Directory partitions—schema, configuration, and domain—and how they control object classes, replication across domain controllers in the forest, and domain-wide management via the schema master.

Map Exchange partitions to show how the schema and configuration partitions host the Exchange organization and servers, while the domain partition holds recipients and mailboxes for the global address list.

Assess and align schema master and global catalog service levels. Ensure all domain controllers share the same forest and domain functional levels, typically Server 2003, with consistent global catalog servers.

Install Exchange Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012; upgrading the OS underneath Exchange is not supported. Include .NET Framework 4.5, WMF 3.0, RSAT, UCMA 4.0 runtime 64-bit, and Office 2012 64-bit.

Outline the hardware requirements for exchange server 2013, including 64-bit processors, 8 gb memory, disk layout for database and logs on separate ntfs disks, and use the mailbox calculator.

Prepare Active Directory for Exchange by running schema preparation on the schema master, then repair the domain with prepare switches, and optionally name the organization during installation.

Explore installing Exchange Server 2013, covering server versions, architecture, hybrid on-premises and cloud mailboxes, upgrade options from 2007 or 2010, installation steps, and virtual deployment considerations.

Highlight Exchange server 2013 editions, standard vs enterprise databases (five vs fifty), and CALs—standard plus enterprise CALs—unlocking features like journal, unified messaging, data loss prevention, and information rights management.

Exchange 2013 relies on roles: client access and mailbox. The client access role authenticates users and routes to mailbox servers; the mailbox role manages databases, public folders, and transport services.

Explore how a hybrid deployment of Exchange 2013 and cloud or Office 365 enables a shared smtp namespace and a unified global address list.

Explore upgrade options for Exchange Server 2013, including mixed 2007/2010 organizations and supported paths from 2007 SP3 with Update Rollup 10 or 2010 SP3, noting 2003 requires an intermediate upgrade.

Use the graphical installer to check for updates, accept the license, apply recommended settings, configure roles, set malware settings and installation location, and enter organization name for Exchange install.

After installation, verify automatic services run, list servers and roles, check setup log, create a mailbox, and test mail between new and legacy Exchange servers by sending and replying.

Explore the browser-based Exchange administration center, PowerShell syntax, and Exchange Management Shell with practical mailbox management examples in Outlook Web app, highlighting differences from the previous management console.

Explore the Exchange admin center to manage mailboxes, groups, migration, and policy settings, while applying RBAC, auditing, e-discovery, data loss prevention, retention, and address lists in Exchange Server 2013.

Explore the Exchange Administration Center to manage mail flow, transport rules, delivery reports, and excepted domains. Configure e-mail address policies, received and send connectors, and mobile device policies.

Explore PowerShell syntax, the verb-noun command structure, and how to use common cmdlets such as Get-Service and Stop-Service, including Import-Module and Get-Help for Exchange Server management.

The Exchange management shell, built on PowerShell, handles Exchange tasks beyond the GUI and is governed by RBAC; with over 700 commands, it demonstrates creating mailboxes, databases, and listing servers.

Explore the Exchange management shell by connecting to a server, starting a session, listing and filtering commands with Get-Command and Get-Mailbox, and learning command parameters and examples.

Demonstrate listing mailboxes on a specific server, refine output with format list for detailed information, and view mailbox statistics such as item count and size with get mailbox.

Explore the Exchange management shell to query mailbox details and create a mailbox with a user account, using parameters like alias, database, password, and reset password on next log on.

Manage mailboxes via OWI, configuring out-of-office and calendar reminders. Set regional options, time zone, and review mobile devices with remote wipe, plus inbox rules and distribution group access.

Outlook web app options, configure mailbox settings, inbox rules, automatic replies, groups, site mailboxes, and calendar preferences under the mailbox role assignment policy.

Explore active directory dependencies and prerequisites and prepare for your Exchange 2013 server. Review installing Exchange Server 2013 and its software prerequisites, plus the Exchange admin center and management shell.

Explore the mailbox server role by examining its features and functions, and learn how to plan deployment and configure mailbox databases.

Explore the mailbox server role in Exchange 2013, including hosting mailbox databases, transport services, unified messaging, DAG-based high availability, and mailbox data import/export.

Understand the edv database file and log files in Exchange 2013, with sizes from 25 gig to 2 terabytes, and including checkpoint and reserve log files with truncation by backups.

Plan log file storage for Exchange Server 2013, covering separate disks for transaction logs, DAG copies, circular logging options, backups that truncate logs, and RAID strategies for ample log space.

Import and export mailbox data via the Exchange management shell, export to a pst file, import to an sd file, and manage the import export role and requests.

Plan the mailbox deployment by reviewing hardware requirements, using the mailbox calculator tool, and addressing database high availability, virtualization, performance verification, and storage considerations.

Assess hardware requirements for exchange mailbox roles by allocating cores for physical or virtual deployments, starting with 4 gb of ram plus per mailbox memory per 50 messages per day.

Use the mailbox server calculator tool to input tiered user profiles and database copies, then output disk space and IOPS while guiding retention and single instance recovery decisions.

Explore database high availability for DAGs, including unique mailbox database names, Windows failover clustering, and identical database and log file paths across up to 16 nodes in the same domain.

Assign static memory to Exchange servers, avoid dynamic memory and dynamic disks, stress test with Jetstress, and ensure three or more database copies with separate disks and hardware RAID.

Explore managing mailbox databases in Exchange Server 2013, including creating databases, configuring high availability with DAGs, migrating public folders to mailboxes, and moving user mailboxes with online moves.

Create a new mailbox database in the Exchange admin center by selecting a server, choosing a name, configuring database and log file paths, and mounting the database immediately.

Configure and verify a mailbox database's mounted status in Exchange Server 2013, adjust startup options, review circular logging and daggs considerations, summarize quotas and retention settings for deleted items.

Review the mailbox role in Exchange 2013, including its management of mailbox databases, transport, and unified messaging. Demonstrates planning the mailbox overall and configuring and creating mailbox databases.

Explore creating and managing Exchange recipient objects, including address lists and address book policies, with demos on configuring recipients, public folders changes, and migration basics.

Explore creating and managing Exchange recipient objects, configure mailboxes, and work with resource mailboxes and site mailboxes in Exchange Server 2013.

Explore Exchange recipient types, including mailbox-enabled users, mail-enabled users, mail contacts, site and resource mailboxes, and distribution groups for collaboration and routing.

Create and configure user mailboxes, move mailboxes, and create distribution groups, mail-enabled users, and mail contacts using Exchange commands such as move, get move request, and set mailbox.

Create a mailbox in the Exchange admin center, configure alias, UPN, logon name, and database, then tailor delivery options, permissions, and policies.

Explore managing mailboxes and groups in Exchange Server 2013, including creating a new operations group, setting ownership, membership, moderation, and delivery options for authenticated and open group scenarios.

Create a dynamic distribution group based on Active Directory department attribute for marketing, allowing Exchange to query AD for members; also configure a conference room resource mailbox for automatic booking.

Configure conference room properties, capacity, and booking policy in Exchange Server 2013, enabling automatic booking for repeating meetings up to 365 days with a 24-hour limit.

Demonstrates booking an event, selecting a conference room via the scheduling assistant, and creating a new mail user and a mail contact in Exchange Server 2013.

Learn how to migrate mailboxes in Exchange Server 2013 by moving a mailbox from one database to another, including online moves, batch processing, and completion.

Complete a mailbox move, remove the migration entry, and review mailbox configuration, while creating a mailbox, distribution groups (normal and dynamic), a resource, and a contact.

Learn how site mailboxes work by setting up an exchange site mailbox created in SharePoint, stored in SharePoint documents storage; ensure Outlook 2013, Exchange 2013, and SharePoint 2013 are available.

Manage public folders by migrating to a public folder mailbox, understand the public folder hierarchy, and protect the active copy with DAGs amid downtime considerations.

Learn how to migrate public folders to Exchange 2013, including planning, downloading migration scripts, preparing statistics, mapping with CXVII and CSP files, and managing downtime with testing.

Explore address lists and the offline address book in Exchange Server 2013, see how to create address lists via department-based queries, and learn about address book policies.

Understand offline address book (oab) in exchange server 2013, generated by organization mailbox server and distributed via web services, with cached mode enabling offline access to the global address list.

Discover how to segment the global address list with a custom address book policy, then create Kontos address list, Cantos GAL, and its online address book.

Create a new address list for rooms and resources inside the recipient container, update it, set up an address book (OAB), and apply a new address book policy to mailboxes.

Open Outlook, set up a profile, and use automatic discovery to access the global address list; verify mailboxes, rooms, and contents, confirming the address policy is functioning.

Address book policies introduced in Exchange 2010 let you create GALs for each division, including contacts, rooms, groups, and public folders, and assign them to users via Exchange Management Shell.

Explain how the default email address policy in Exchange assigns aliases and generates addresses, and how to create custom policies using the company field or a custom attribute.

Create and apply e-mail address policies in exchange server 2013, manage the default policy, define address formats, and configure excepted domains for department-specific addresses.

Summarize module three by reviewing exchange recipients creation and management, public folders, address lists, address book policies, and e-mail address policies; preview the client access server role.

Plan, deploy, and configure client access servers in Exchange Server 2013, covering deployment steps, role configuration, and ongoing management of client access services.

Examine client access server deployment, hardware requirements, and multi-site cache behavior, and explain how Outlook Anywhere and CAS handle connections without direct MAPI access.

Outline hardware and deployment requirements for Exchange Server 2013 core, including raid 1 os disk, adequate network cards, multiple cache servers, and a 4:1 mailbox to cas core ratio.

Explore how the client access server proxies Outlook Anywhere, OWA, and Exchange Active Sync through firewalls to the mailbox server, including pop3/imap4, SMTP, and unified messaging.

Understand the supported Exchange 2013 clients, noting Outlook 2003 is unsupported and recommending ActiveSync or web access (OWA) for mailbox, calendar, and contacts.

Configure the client access server by designing the namespace and certificates, configuring virtual directories, authentication, mail flow, and supporting multiple domains; discover DNS records.

Walks through creating a new certificate via the wizard, generating a CSR to a certification authority, and configuring the common name mail.datum.com for Outlook Anywhere.

Configure and install an SSL certificate for the Exchange CAS deployment by generating a request, submitting to a certification authority, importing the issued certificate, and assigning it to Exchange services.

Configure virtual directories on cache servers, aligning internal and external urls for Outlook Web App; set external access domain and authentication, and decide direct file access for public computers.

Explore the client access server role and its services, including the Exchange Admin Center, discovery services, availability for free/busy, mail tips, address book, and Exchange Web Services.

Outlook clients from 2007 onward automatically discover their configuration via the auto discover service, using SCPs in Active Directory or DNS lookups to obtain the necessary profile details.

Configure Autodiscover with the Exchange management shell, set site affinity, publish DNS records, and verify connectivity using the Microsoft test exchange connectivity site or test-outlook-web-services.

Explore how the availability service retrieves free busy data from mailboxes and delivers mail tips, out of office, invalid recipients, external recipients, and static tips for large distributions.

Configure mailtips in Exchange Server 2013 by adjusting organization config and enabling external recipient tips, group metrics, and mailbox tips, then test by sending to groups and external recipients.

Summarize module 4 by detailing client access server deployment, cache server placement in ad sites with mailboxes, configuring the client access server and virtual directories, and managing discovery and availability.

Explore Exchange Server clients, configure client connections, examine security considerations, and review the common ports in module 5 messaging client connectivity.

Explore Exchange server clients, including Outlook Web App (OWA), Outlook Anywhere, and Exchange ActiveSync for mobile devices. Learn about OWA lite introduced in Exchange 2013 and support for POP3.

Explore how the Outlook Web App provides browser-based access to mail, calendar, inbox, tasks, and contacts across major browsers, including external access.

Outlook Anywhere lets remote users connect with Outlook without a VPN by encapsulating MAPI packets in HTTP over port 443 to the Exchange server, simplifying namespace design for cloud services.

Exchange active sync widely delivers mail, calendar, and contacts on smartphones and tablets, with BlackBerry licensing it and port 443 for secure server access, while OWA lite covers older devices.

Explore POP3 and IMAP4 in Exchange Server 2013, enabling mail access for devices and clients that lack ActiveSync or Outlook compatibility, including non-Outlook clients.

Configure exchange side client connections with virtual directories and policies, including offline mode, for access and app use; enable Office Web Apps integration to view or edit Word documents online.

Create and tailor Outlook Web App policies and mobile device policies, assign them to departments or users, and enforce password and security settings with automation options.

Enable offline mode in Exchange 2013 by choosing use mail offline under settings; data will be stored on the computer, and you can add offline access to favorites.

Explore Office Web Apps Server integration to open and edit Word and Excel documents in a browser, with Office 365 included and on-premises setup available if needed.

Explore mobile device connections with Exchange ActiveSync, including direct push, conversation view, provisioning, and rights management for protected emails.

Direct push delivers immediate message synchronization over mobile data or Wi-Fi, with a continuous connection needed for optimal performance, and may require firewall timeout adjustments.

Enable remote wipe as a built-in Exchange feature that lets administrators or end users erase all data on a lost device once it connects, with third-party tools offering alternatives.

Enable mobile device quarantine to control connections by device family or type with allow, block, or quarantine settings; quarantined devices trigger end-user emails and admin alerts for approval.

Explore security in Exchange Server 2013 by implementing mobile device policies, enforcing password requirements, alphanumeric rules, and encryption, with automatic device wipe after multiple failed logins and inactivity disconnect.

Learn exchange server ports for connections, including HTTP 80, HTTPS 443, POP3 110 and 995 with SSL, IMAP 143 and 993 with SSL, SMTP 25 and 587, DNS 53 UDP.

Examine exchange server clients, including exchange active sync, configure client connections, discuss security, and disable unused ports and services to complete the module.

Explore how message transport works in Exchange 2013, plan and configure transport settings, and apply transport rules that reflect the major changes in this module.

Discover how Exchange 2013 routes messages from front end to hub transport, then to mailbox transport (delivery and submission), with mailbox services interfacing with the database.

Explore the Exchange Server 2013 message transport diagram, detailing front end, hub, and mailbox transport services, SMTP send/receive, queues, categorization, and delivery paths.

Explore routing destinations and delivery groups in Exchange Server 2013, including active copy routing to mailbox databases, connectors and bridgeheads, and distribution group expansion servers and DAG-based delivery groups.

See how front and transport services route mail via hub and mailbox transport services, using delivery groups such as a DAG or mailbox delivery group or Active Directory site.

Learn to modify the default message flow in Exchange Server 2013 by configuring hub sites, AD sites, and exchange-specific costs to route mail through a central HQ.

Explore troubleshooting tools for exchange server 2013, using message tracking and tracking log explorer to verify delivery, enable smtp protocol logging to view mail conversation, and test connectivity with telnet.

Configure and demo message transport in Exchange Server 2013, covering accepted domains, send and receive connectors, remote domains via management shell, and transport service options.

Configure accepted domains, receive and send connectors to manage mail flow in Exchange server 2013. Learn how internal relay domains, smart hosts, and MX records route internet mail.

Review receive connectors, including client proxy and outbound proxy, with ports 587, 717, 25, 465, and create front end or hub transport connectors with IP binding and anonymous authentication.

Explore transport rules to control messages in transit, include AD variable-driven disclaimers, and moderate recipients, then apply data protection rules to block IP addresses, emails, and social security numbers.

Explore transport rules in Exchange Server 2013, including message moderation, disclaimers, size filters, and data loss prevention policies like the France data protection act, with testing and enforcement.

Examine transport and data protection rules, review SMTP basics, and configure exchange message transport, received and other connectors, and domain settings to enable mail flow.

Explore how Exchange 2013 high availability builds on Exchange 2010, configuring DAGs and mailbox database copies to enable load balancing and client access availability.

Explore how Exchange 2013 achieves high availability through database availability groups, database seeding, and log shipping, and learn about active manager, shadow redundancy, site resilience, and failover.

Database availability groups provide high availability for mailbox databases by hosting up to 16 copies within a DAG and enabling rapid failover across sites via continuous replication.

Demonstrate DAG seeding and replication for Exchange 2013, covering initial database copy seeding, log shipping to passive copies, and block versus file mode.

Orchestrates database failover across all mailbox servers in the dag, routing to the active copy. Manages two modes, Pam and Sam, to determine the active database location and failover behavior.

Explain how shadow redundancy preserves in-transit messages to ensure delivery and support high availability, and how safety net stores three days of messages for replay after mailbox server failover.

Explore site resilience for exchange server 2013, covering partial and full site failures. Ensure the secondary site has active directory, domain controllers, global catalog, dns, and cas configured.

Explore configuring mailbox database high availability by examining quorum, DAG node requirements, DAG configuration, database copies, and the failover process.

Explain how quorum drives dag configurations in Exchange Server 2013, including node majority, fileshare witness, and how odd versus even node counts create or resolve voting ties.

Identify DAG node requirements: mailbox servers in the same Active Directory domain, two NIC adapters on separate subnets for mapping and replication, and a dedicated file share witness for failover.

Configure dag requirements for Exchange Server 2013, including per-subnet ip addresses, a file share witness, and optional replay and truncation lag times, plus cross-site witness.

Explore the failover process in Exchange Server 2013, including lag times, activation of the most up-to-date copy, and log file handling for automatic and lossless availability options.

Create and configure a database availability group in Exchange Server by provisioning a dag named dag one, configuring security, and adding mailbox servers.

Configure a dag by adding a second server, create mailbox database copies, and verify failover by mounting healthy copies and monitoring activation preferences, lag time, and indexing.

Discover client access high availability using database availability groups and network load balancing, including hardware load balancers and Windows NLB, with certificate considerations to avoid single points of failure.

Use Windows network load balancing to achieve high availability and scalability for Exchange, VPN, and web servers with virtual IPs, up to 32 nodes, and heartbeat-based failover.

Examine Exchange 2013 high availability by configuring and testing a database availability group for mailbox databases in a lab environment.

Explore modular disaster recovery and disaster mitigation, examining backup and recovery strategies for mailboxes, servers, and databases.

Explore disaster mitigation by analyzing data loss scenarios and using Exchange Server native data protection, backup, and restore features to recover deleted items or mailboxes with high availability reducing downtime.

Adjust item and mailbox recovery time from a 14-day default. Protect databases with DAGs, and enable safety net and replay to aid recovery.

Learn Exchange server native data protection: run three or more database copies to skip raid and backups, use lag copies for recovery, and enable circular logging when not backing up.

Enable single item recovery to preserve deleted messages for discovery, with purge and versions folders, while retention, legal holds, and backups drive restore strategies.

Learn how to back up key Exchange Server components, including system state, Active Directory, databases, transaction logs, and configuration files, using backup software and online options.

Explore backup software options for Exchange Server 2013, comparing third‑party tools with Windows Server Backup, detailing VSS backups, brick‑level backups, and the handling of active versus passive database copies.

Learn server and database recovery options, address database corruption with a recovery database, and rebuild a pristine Exchange server by restoring the same OS, same name, and domain membership.

Explore database recovery options for Exchange Server, including database restore, recovery databases, and DAG backups for maintaining mail flow during failures.

Explore database corruption in Exchange Server 2013, where mounts work but data is wrong, and use built-in mailbox repair requests to fix mailboxes or public folders without downtime.

Mount a recovery database to access an older production database version, ensure the same Exchange version and service pack, then extract mailbox items or entire mailboxes to other mailboxes.

Learn how to perform dial tone recovery by creating a temporary recovery database, moving mailboxes with the management shell, and later re-mounting the original database to migrate data back.

Evaluate disaster mitigation for exchange server by identifying data loss items—mailboxes, servers, databases—and review backups, dial-tone recovery, recovery databases, built-in protection, single-item recovery, and DAGs.

Explore messaging security in microsoft exchange 2013 by examining anti-virus and anti-spam measures, and learn how these controls safeguard email.

Explore the smtp gateway solution for messaging security with anti-spam and anti-malware features. Learn to configure edge deployments, dns entries, and static dns records for dmz and internal Exchange servers.

Learn client access security by using digital signatures with a private key to sign messages, proving origin, ensuring non-repudiation, and maintaining data integrity.

Explore message flow restrictions in Exchange Server 2013, including transport rules for encryption, message delivery restrictions, data loss prevention, and message moderation to control who can send and receive.

Explore smtp connector security using ipsec at the network layer to encrypt server-to-server communications, site-to-site vpn, and transport layer security for smtp connections within your control.

Establish domain security for partner organizations by exchanging or obtaining trusted certificates (mutual tls) and configuring inbound and outbound security via the Exchange management shell.

Explore S/MIME in Exchange Server 2013, including certificate-based encryption, authentication, and data integrity, and learn how sender and recipient certificates enable encrypted mail and key management.

Explore built-in anti-malware protection in Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Online Protection, compare on-server antivirus with perimeter and hosted cloud solutions, and review quarantine, reporting, and web-based management options.

Explore anti-spam features in Exchange Server 2013, including content filtering, recipient and sender filtering, and greylisting, combined with SPF records and DNS TXT records for malware protection.

Explore messaging security in Exchange Server 2013, and review anti-virus and anti-spam options to strengthen email protection.