Microsoft 70-342: Advanced Solutions of Exchange Server 2013

Explore virtualization for microsoft exchange 2013, detailing hyper-v setup, virtualization considerations, and the hypervisor requirements essential for deploying exchange in a virtual environment.

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.

design a virtual mailbox and virtual client access server on a validated hypervisor, with all exchange roles supported, strict memory and cpu limits, and avoid dynamic or differencing disks.

Designing a virtual mailbox server deployment requires memory planning: 8 gb per server plus 3 mb per mailbox per 50 messages daily, with a dag to protect databases.

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.

Gain an overview of Exchange 2013 unified messaging, including telephony technologies and the components of Exchange 2013 unified messaging.

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.

Discover how unified messaging in Exchange 2013 consolidates voicemail, email, and fax into one inbox, with voicemail playback and Outlook voice access to mail and calendar.

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.

Explore unified messaging objects in Exchange Server 2013, including dial plan mapping to PBX extensions, IP gateway management, hunt groups, and mailbox policies with pin and greeting settings.

Configure unified messaging with Outlook clients and Outlook Web App, enabling auto attendant with greetings and directory search. Define call answering rules to route voicemail by busy or unanswered status.

Assess business requirements for planning Exchange 2013 unified messaging, including infrastructure needs, high availability, PBX and IP gateways, and network bandwidth for voice, voicemail, and fax.

Explore unified messaging infrastructure requirements for Exchange 2013, detailing the client access server, mailbox server, voicemail and auto attendant, AD DS, and IP PBX or IP gateway integration via SIP/RTP.

Ensure IP PBX or gateway compatibility with Exchange and plan for multiple dial plans, unified messaging mailbox policies, and number block switching to route numbers to secondary PSTN lines.

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.

Ensure high availability for unified messaging with pstn lines and voip gateways, and integrate Office 365 unified messaging with Exchange 2013 via an SBC for secure cloud and on-premises voice.

Explore unified messaging security by examining encryption modes for SIP and media traffic, and ensure devices and Exchange 2013 mailbox service use the same encryption levels with trusted certificates.

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.

Create and configure unified messaging components in Exchange, including the UM IP gateway object, dial plan objects, and unified messaging mailbox policies, then enable unified messaging on mailboxes.

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 protected voicemail policy configuration, security implications, and deployment requirements for Exchange 2013, including ADR as the management service, SQL Server setup, and client support.

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.

Explore database availability groups enabling up to 16 mailbox copies with an active copy across Active Directory sites, and load balance CAS servers via NLB, balancers, or DNS round robin.

Drive transport-level high availability with shadow queue and shadow safety net to safeguard in-transit messages and enable failover when the primary hub transport fails, with two days kept by default.

Explore planning site resilience for Exchange Server deployments, covering active and passive sites, witness and Diyar sites, Corum transport, multiple Daggs, databases, and bandwidth considerations.

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.

Ensure site resilience by configuring a safety net aligned with lag time, enabling passive database recovery, and reconfiguring edge and MX records, DNS, and local domain controllers.

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.

Discover how to configure databases for resilience by planning active and passive copies, distributing them evenly, and setting the activation preference with lag or truncation across primary and ADR sites.

Perform a site-wide failure switchover by stopping the dag on the offline site, marking servers as stopped, and restoring the dag with Stop-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup and Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup.

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.

Pre-stage Dagh computer accounts, set security and Exchange trusted subsystem, configure alternate file share witness, enable data center activation coordination mode, then create Dagh with mailbox services and database copies.

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

Explore what messaging policy and compliance mean, learn how to configure transport compliance, and review rights management service integration.

Explore how legal and corporate compliance requirements govern medical record privacy, personal data such as social security numbers, external message disclaimers, and ethical firewalls, while controlling information leaving the company.

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.

Create transport rules in the exchange admin center to add a test disclaimer to all messages, wrapping the original message, and set up moderation for the company distribution group.

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.

Create custom message classifications, including localized versions, for Outlook 2007+ and use them in transport rules as conditions or actions; distribute via group policy preferences.

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.

Create a transport protection rule in mail flow rules, ADR set up already, to apply rights protection to messages from the accounting group using the default template and prevent forwarding.

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.

Explain how transport decryption happens at the first exchange server transport service, then messages are re-encrypted, with journal report decryption and federation mailbox steps.

Implementing AD RMS integration guides you to choose client options for external uses, distribute templates via group policy preferences, and establish federated trust with Active Directory Federation Services.

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.

Learn archiving features for messaging records management, including personal archives, retention policies, and Exchange search across primary and archive mailboxes, with in place hold and recoverable items.

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.

Enable in-place archiving on a mailbox, choose archive storage location, and plan archive servers or storage tiers; mailbox moves may target primary, archive, or both, with independent quotas and statistics.

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.

Create and apply a new I.T. department retention policy using retention tags, with seven-day delete for deleted items and a one-year move to archive, via compliance center and management shell.

Explore messaging records management and archiving, including in-place archiving and message retention, in module 6.

Explore messaging compliance in module 7, covering in place hold, data loss prevention, and e-discovery to protect information and meet governance requirements.

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.

Configure an in-place hold in the exchange admin center under compliance management to search mailboxes, filter for exchange in the email body, and hold items indefinitely or for 365 days.

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

Learn data loss prevention concepts across data in use, in motion, and at rest, with DLP policy creation, tips, and demonstrations in Exchange 2013.

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.

Test outbound emails against a data loss prevention policy by sending files with customer data and an IP address; both attempts fail, showing the DLP rule blocks sensitive information.

Explore policy tips in Exchange Server 2013 that notify users when emails contain restricted data, and demonstrate override options such as notify only, reject, and silent override.

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 in-place holds, data loss prevention, and discovery in module 7, detailing how holds are managed, data is protected, and discovery workflows are executed for Exchange Server 2013 administrators.

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.

Examine built-in management role groups in Exchange, including organization management (default) and additive groups like recipient, unified messaging, discovery, records, server, delegated setup, and hygiene management.

Apply rbac best practices with built-in role groups and avoid modifying roles; duplicate a built-in role to create custom roles, and add the mailbox import export role to a group.

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.

Test rbac by validating permissions and scopes using the Exchange management shell, creating and verifying custom scopes, and ensuring admins can only modify intended recipients.

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.

Modify the default management role assignment policy or create one for different user groups, and designate a default, since policies are assigned to mailboxes to control user mailbox administration.

Explains modifying the management role assignment policy in the exchange admin center to tailor mailbox permissions, create a managers policy, and assign it to a user to broaden management capabilities.

Explore rbac and split permissions in exchange server 2013, understanding why you use them and how to set them up, and examine administrative and mailbox audit logging.

Explore the Exchange Management Shell and Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage Exchange 2013 with the EMS.

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.

Master PowerShell remoting to manage Exchange server remotely, opening sessions from your computer to a remote server and returning results. Explore one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one remoting for multi-admin environments.

Learn to navigate the Exchange management shell by accessing help, mastering piping and formatting with format-list, format-wide, and format-table, and using sort-object, select-object, where-object, and measure-object to analyze mailbox data.

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.

discover how to use variables in loops, apply if and while conditions, and perform boolean comparisons in PowerShell, with script execution policies like restricted, remote signed, unrestricted, and bypass.

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.

Create and run simple PowerShell jobs, retrieve application log events with get-eventlog, display the newest five entries, and inspect the received job output.

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.