Microsoft 70-342: Advanced Solutions of Exchange Server 2013

Explore Hyper-V features and hardware requirements, including storage best practices, site resilience, and System Center 2012 context in Windows Server 2012.

Plan Hyper-V storage by choosing suitable direct attached storage, serial attached storage, or file shares, and size disks for virtual machines, applications, data, and Exchange mailboxes to meet disk bandwidth.

Standardize hardware and deploy server core to reduce overhead; allocate memory and configure networks with multiple NICs for management, vm traffic, migration, and separate disks for SAN/ODX storage.

Learn site resilience for Exchange Server 2013 by enabling maintenance, live storage migration and live migrations, and implementing high availability with Hyper-V clustering and network load balancing for cache servers.

Leverage System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 to manage virtual environments, load balance VMs across hosts, optimize VM placement, enable self-service provisioning, and integrate with Operations Manager for host management.

Decide whether to virtualize Exchange Server 2013 based on utilization; go physical when usage exceeds 80 percent or oversubscription is needed, otherwise virtualize for low utilization environments like branch offices.

Examine Hyper-V basics and requirements, and review the requirements for virtualizing Exchange within this module of the Microsoft 70-342 course.

Compare circuit-switched and packet-switched networks, explaining how dedicated point-to-point connections differ from packet-based communication. Explore PBX, VoIP, IP gateway, and how packet switching reassembles data for delivery.

Explore how a private branch exchange connects to the public switched telephone network to support company extensions and services. Compare analog, digital, ip, and hybrid PBX types.

Explore telephony terminology and dialing concepts, including DID and direct, dial plans, PBX mapping of extensions, hunt groups, pilot numbers, coverage paths, voicemail, and call transfer.

Explore voice over ip protocols and technologies for delivering voice and multimedia over ip networks, including sip for session initiation, rtp for real-time media, and t-38 fax over ip.

Explore Exchange unified messaging components, including the call routing service, unified messaging dial plan and IP gateway, mailbox server, and SIP/TCAP ports with RTP for voicemail.

Outline hardware needs for advanced exchange server 2013: eight cores, scalable memory, language packs at 500 mb, and 250 kb per five minutes of WMI codec conversation.

Examine codecs and file formats for media streams, including PCM and other voice codecs, compare compression and quality, and explain how a dial plan selects the codec.

Configure a UM dial plan and a UM IP gateway in the Exchange admin center, defining dial codes, voice access numbers, and security settings for unified messaging.

Configure a hunt group of related extensions, using a pilot number to connect to the group and divert calls when extensions are busy or unanswered, within unified messaging IP gateway.

Configure unified messaging mailbox policies by defining dial plan, maximum greeting length, login attempt limits before password reset, pin rules, and calling restrictions; then enable unified messaging on mailboxes.

Create a unified messaging mailbox policy for managers, set pin policies and lifetime, and apply the UM mailbox policy to Kelly Rowland and Bonneau, with SIP addresses and extensions.

Configure a data auto attendant in the dial plan, assign an access number, set 5-digit extension rules, enable voice command responses, and enforce six-digit PINs and eight-digit PINs.

Explore how Exchange Server 2013 unified messaging integrates with Lync Server 2013, highlighting presence, video and audio conferencing, voip, call routing, and federation considerations.

Plan Exchange 2013 unified messaging and configure the unified components, then explore integrating Exchange Server 2013 unified messaging with Link Server 2013.

Explore site resilience and high availability in Exchange Server 2013, then plan a resilient design and create a site resilience solution.

Explore site resilience and high availability for exchange server 2013, covering daggs, load balanced servers, transport high availability, and failover to alternate sites.

Explore how Exchange Server 2013 uses DAG-based high availability, managed availability monitoring, auto reseed, and safety net transport to keep databases replicated across sites with reduced iops and rapid failover.

Plan site resilience with global server load balancing and DNS round robin to route users to the nearest healthy Exchange site, guided by service health and TTL.

Explore quorum in Exchange Server 2013, using a file share witness to secure a majority of votes. Learn about odd versus even node counts and alternate witnesses for site failover.

Configure site resilience for Exchange 2013 by defining the client facing namespace, managing SSL certificates across CAS servers, and setting internal and external URLs with load balancing and switchover process.

Design site resilience for the London production site with failover to the DR site within 30 minutes, ensuring all users can access mailboxes and send and receive emails.

Configure virtual directories and the external url for webmail in the Exchange admin center, set auto discover, enable Outlook Anywhere, and enforce ssl with correct certificates to improve site resilience.

Explore high availability in Exchange 2013 with a focus on planning site resilience. Learn to create a site resilience solution for Exchange 2013.

Learn to enforce transport compliance in Exchange Server 2013 by creating and testing transport rules, applying classifications, moderation, and journaling, with conditions, actions, exceptions, and rules stored in Active Directory.

Demonstrates creating transport rules to route messages for moderation, including sending test emails, escalating to an administrator for approval or rejection, and applying a disclaimer.

Explain how Exchange Server 2013 handles message moderation and journaling, detailing moderator workflows, arbitration mailbox roles, and standard versus premium journaling with scope options.

Configure journaling rules for the accounting department and set up a journal mailbox, then enable group moderation with designated moderators and notification options.

Integrate AD RMS with Exchange Server 2013 to enable digital rights management, supporting transport and journal decryption, while planning scope, access, and templates for protected content.

Demonstrates testing a transport protection rule: recipients can read the message but cannot forward, print, or copy content, while replies remain possible.

Create an Outlook protection rule quickly, applying a rights protection template to the accounting recipients to prevent forwarding. Demonstrate setting up transport and Outlook protection rules within Exchange.

Examine messaging policy compliance, configure transport compliance, and review 80 or M-S integration in Exchange Server 2013.

Explore message retention and messaging records management, and examine archiving options, including in-place archiving, to understand how to manage Exchange Server 2013 data.

Explore messaging records management (MRM) options, including per-folder and entire-mailbox retention, deletion after a set period, user classifications, and enterprise-scale or third-party archiving solutions.

Discover how native in-place archiving stores data in an archive mailbox within Exchange, accessible via Outlook Web App, enabling on-premises deployment and multi-mailbox e-discovery.

Integrate in-place archiving with Lync Server 2013 for linked servers. Archive meeting content, presentations, documents, and messaging into user mailboxes with retention policies; recoverable items folder stores archived data.

Set up a personal archive for Aiden by enabling archiving, choosing a database, and applying the default MRM retention policy to move items older than two years into the archive.

Explore messaging records management by configuring retention tags, retention policies, and archive policies for different groups, ensuring legal compliance and controlling the deleted items folder.

Define retention tags and policies, showing how tags apply to folders with a retention period and actions such as delete permanently, delete with recovery, or archive.

Learn how to configure MRM by creating retention tags, building retention policies, and applying them to user mailboxes, via manual, provisioning scripts, or scheduled tasks.

Apply in-place hold to mailboxes to preserve messages for litigation or messaging records management. Configure search queries, durations, recoverable items, versions, and delegated permissions to manage multiple holds.

In place holds require more storage, so avoid unnecessary retention; set recoverable item quotas and ensure legal hold access to manage long holds.

Discover how DLP policies enforce compliance using transport rules in the exchange admin center or management shell, with predefined templates, custom policies, and testing before enforcement via policy tips.

Create and enforce a DLP policy from the US financial data template, customize block and reject messages with an explanation, and generate incident reports to the administrator while activating the policy.

Create and enforce data loss prevention rules to block emails containing IP addresses and financial data, notify senders, audit with medium severity, and report to an administrator.

Configure policy tips in Exchange Server 2013 to notify senders, block messages, or allow overrides. Customize locale text and IP address rules to enforce data protection and modify tips.

Learn what e-discovery is, how it works, and how to plan and implement it with SharePoint 2013 integration, PowerShell scripts, and discovery mailboxes for compliant mailbox searches.

Perform an e-discovery search by adding the administrator to the discovery management group, configuring in place e-discovery and hold, and filtering for e-mail items across mailboxes.

Explore RBAC and administrative security in Exchange Server 2013, and implement split permissions that separate AD user and security group management from Exchange admins, audit logging for admins and mailboxes.

Explore role based access control (RBAC) in Exchange server 2013, including management role groups, role assignment policies, and ROA entries that define mailbox and recipient permissions.

Explore RBAC best practices by creating custom role groups like mailbox managers, granting recipient management to Aiden and mailbox management privileges to Brad, and testing enable/disable mailbox actions.

Explore how the management role assignment policy governs every mailbox in Exchange Server 2013, controlling actions like updating contact information, creating public distribution groups, and managing retention policies.

Discover PowerShell 3.0 features, including modules, remote management, web access setup with self-signed or trusted certificates, scheduled jobs, and robust session connectivity with IntelliSense and ISE.

Explore Windows PowerShell modules and how to load them, import the Active Directory module, list loaded modules with Get-Module, and distinguish binary modules from script modules.

Explore PowerShell basics, aliases, and help commands; import modules like Active Directory, manage processes and services with get-service and where object, and navigate the registry and file system.

Manage Exchange 2013 with the Exchange management shell, exploring management examples and PowerShell jobs. Analyze verbs like get, set, new, test, and remove, and monitor mailboxes, transport queues, and databases.

Explore the exchange management shell by listing mailbox commands. Retrieve mailbox statistics from a server, piping to select-object for display name, total item size, and item count.

Demonstrates creating a new mailbox with the Exchange Management Shell, prompting for a secure password, setting up UPN, alias, database, and display name, and verifying via the admin center.

Demonstrates using the Exchange Management Shell to import users from a csv file, create mailboxes, and set up a new organizational unit with PowerShell modules.

Discover how to use test cmdlets to verify service health and dependency services, ensuring required components are up. Validate exchange active sync connectivity and outlook connectivity to exchange.

Learn to create and run background and scheduled PowerShell jobs across multiple mailbox servers. Manage them with Start-Job, Get-Job, Wait-Job, and Remove-Job, and schedule tasks using Register-ScheduledJob with triggers.

Harness Windows PowerShell workflows to automate long-running, multi-server tasks, with stop, pause, resume, and event-wait capabilities, illustrated by automating Exchange installation and server reboot handling.

Use the exchange management shell to monitor exchange and retrieve queue data such as last error status, last retry time, next retry time, and message count, plus event log details.