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Unveiling Exchange Server 2000
- Understand design objectives
- Discover key differences from Exchange 5.5
- Examine the utilization of TCP/IP standards-based protocols in Exchange 2000
- Look at the impact of SMTP-based messaging
- Explore web-store features
- Interoperability
- Exchange installable file system
Exchange 2000 and Active Directory
- Intensive Active Directory for Exchange administrators
- Physical and logical structure of Active Directory
- Domain controllers
- The schema
- Single operations masters
- Exchange 2000 integration with Active Directory
- Data storage in Active Directory
- Active Directory objects versus Exchange 5.5 directory objects
- Exchange 2000 and Active Directory services & dependencies
- Working with Exchange 2000 and Active Directory
- Object-oriented Management
- Domain-based administration
- Types of recipient objects
- Mailbox-enabled users
- Mail-enabled security groups
- Distribution groups
- Mail-enabled users and contacts
- Scripting bulk directory changes
Installation and deployment of Exchange 2000
- Hardware requirements
- Planning and creating a new Exchange organization
- Preparing a forest
- Installing into an existing Exchange organization
- Preparing a domain
- Setup options including unattended and schema only installations
- Server optimization
- Server placement
- Default file locations & structures
- Share point permissions
- Installing the administration program
- Implement Exchange in mixed-mode and native mode
Configuration and management
- Utilize the Exchange system manager
- Extending administration utilities
- The Exchange server hierarchy
- Replication between servers
- Planning and enabling administrative groups
- Designing and implementing routing groups
- Administering configuration objects
- Creating address lists
- Defining and managing policies
- Configuring server-side multmedia properties
- Analyze client access strategies
- Outlook
- Outlook web access
- Outlook express
- POP3/IMAP4 clients
- Web access
The Architecture of Exchange 2000
- SMTP transport engine
- Information stores
- Native content message storage
- Multiple storage groups/information stores
- Administrative groups
- Routing groups
- System policies
- Policy-based management
- Server policies
- Mailbox store policies
- Public
- Development platform
- Exchange installable file system
- Event sinks
- HTTP-dav
- Outlook web access information stores
Information stores
- Storage groups and information stores
- Managing transaction logs
- Backup and restore considerations
- Mailbox store limits and policies
Public folders and information stores
- Exchange 2000 public folder features
- NNTP-based design
- Multiple public folder roots
- Referrals and replication
- Public folder permissions and security
- Outlook permissions
- Public store limits and policies
- Indexing
Routing group connectors/gateways
- Understanding message routing
- Routing groups and routing group connectors
- SMTP connector
- X.400 connector
- Legacy/foreign email system gateways
- Administering the link-state router
- Configuring routing group connectors
Managing internet connectivity
- Global settings
- Configuring SMTP virtual servers
- Configuring the SMTP connector
- Filtering and forwarding
- Adjusting SMTP protocol settings
- Outlook web access
Scalability and resilience
- Front-end/back-end servers
- Windows 2000 load balancing
- Windows 2000 clustering
- DNS and domain controller servers
- Firewall topology
Instant mail and data conferencing
- Instant mail design
- Supporting DNS records and protocols
- Instant messaging host and home virtual servers
- MSN messenger client
- Instant mail configuration
- Setup options
- Configuring host servers
- Configuring home servers
- Enabling instant messaging for the user
- Installing the MSN messenger client
- Logging on and online presence
- Data conferencing design
- T-120 data conferencing features
- Multicasting
- Quality of service/message streaming
- Firewall topology
- Data conferencing configuration
- Setup options
- DHCP multicast scope
- Configuring the conferencing host server
- Configuring the host conference calendar account
- Configuring home servers
- Configuring resource accounts
- Scheduling a conference in outlook
- Using and managing a conference
Troubleshooting and maintenance
- Viewing queues
- Event log
- Starting/stopping services
- Mounting information store
- Enabling logging
- Tracking
- Cleaning mailboxes
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