Deploying Exchange Server 2019

2h 30mIntermediate2019-05-10

Authors

Robert McMillen

35+ Certifications, Networking Consultant, Consultant for U.S. Government

Course details

Deploying enterprise communication systems is a key skill for any IT professional. In this course, author Robert McMillen explains how to deploy Exchange Server 2019. Learn how to plan your deployment, prepare your environment, install the Exchange mailbox and Edge Transport roles, and create public folders, address lists, dynamic distributions groups, and contacts. Robert also explains how to install certificates for user authentication and configure email transport rules. Plus, learn how to set up high availability (HA) options, such as clustered mailbox servers, to ensure maximum uptime, and how to upgrade from previous versions of Exchange.

Learning objectives
Planning an Exchange Server deployment
Installing Exchange
Installing authentication certificates
Configuring authentication methods
Designing mail flow
Configuring send and receive connections
Configuring transport rules
Creating database availability groups for HA
Managing database cluster failover for HA
Accessing Exchange using Outlook

Skills covered

Microsoft Exchange ServerServer AdministrationProjectNetwork and System AdministrationMicrosoft

Concepts

Introduction

Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2019

Planning for Exchange Deployment

Requirements for deployment
Migration considerations from Exchange 2013 and 2016
AD preparation for domain controllers
Exchange 2019 installation
Exchange management tools
Accepting domain setup
Plan for database size and storage performance requirements
Plan mailbox role capacity and placement
Create and configure public folders and placement
Plan for preferred architecture
Create and configure offline address book (OAB)
How to create user and shared mailboxes
Create resource mailboxes
Create distribution groups
Create contacts

Deploying the Client Access Services

Planning for MAPI over HTTP and Outlook Anywhere
Configure an address list
Order authentication certificates
Install authentication certificates
Configure authentication methods
Planning the namespace model

Deploying Email Transport

Design intersite mail flow
Plan for Domain Security TLS
Edge Transport design
Design message hygiene solutions
Configure Send and Receive connectors
Configure transport rules

Deploying High Availability

Plan for Exchange clustering
Create database availability groups
Replicate databases in a DAG
Troubleshooting DAG database replication
Add an administrator to manage Exchange
Manual database cluster failover

Command Line Setup Options

Installing roles through CLI
Checking database integrity
Data loss prevention policy setup

Deploying Mobile and Outlook Solutions

Controlling mobile device functionality
Outlook Web Access from any computer
Accessing Exchange using Outlook

Conclusion

Next steps