This Exchange Server 2003 training course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully design and plan an Exchange Server 2003 organisation in an enterprise network, including a plan for upgrading from previous versions of Exchange.

This course is intended for senior IT professionals with three or more years of messaging and network experience, including one year designing messaging infrastructures.

Before attending this Exchange Server 2003 training course, students must have:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows ServerT 2003 and Active Directory
• Working knowledge of Active Directory design principles
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003
• Working knowledge of networking, including Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Internet Information Services (IIS)
• Working knowledge of network infrastructure concepts including routing and routers, and available bandwidth
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols, including Post Office Protocol version 3(POP3) or Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP4), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
• Three or more years of messaging and network experience, including one year designing messaging infrastructures

In addition, it is recommended that you have completed:

• Course 2400, Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, or have equivalent knowledge.
• Workshop 2011, Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, or have equivalent knowledge.
• Course 2282, Designing a Microsoft Windows ServerT 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, or have equivalent knowledge.

On completion of this Exchange Server 2003 training course, students should be able to:

• Analyse Active Directory® and design an administrative plan.
• Design a routing topology and server roles and placement.
• Design public folders and client connectivity.
• Design an Exchange Server 2003 security strategy.
• Design for high availability and reliability.
• Design inter-organisational connectivity.
• Design an Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003 deployment strategy.

• Analysing Your Current Environment
• Designing Active Directory Groups for an Exchange Server 2003 Organisation
• Designing an Administrative Plan

This unit provides the knowledge and skills needed to design an effective routing topology. This process includes determining how many routing groups are needed, where to locate each group, how messages will flow through the various groups, and how to connect them to one another. In addition, the roles that Exchange servers can hold in an Exchange organisation and the placement of servers are examined.

• Planning Routing Group Boundaries
• Planning Connectors Between Routing Groups
• Planning Server Roles and Placement

• Planning Business and Logistical Requirements for Public Folders
• Planning Administrative and Permission Requirements for Public Folders
• Planning Hardware Requirements for Public Folders

• Designing a Security Strategy
• Planning Exchange Server 2003 Perimeter Security
• Planning Exchange Server 2003 Intranet Security
• Planning an Encryption Strategy

This unit explains how to design a highly available and reliable messaging system, including front-end and back-end servers, reliable Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, storage technologies, and clustering.

• Introduction to Designing a Highly Available Exchange Server Organisation
• Providing Redundant Supporting Services for the Exchange Server Organisation
• Designing a Highly Available Internet Client Access Strategy
• Designing a Highly Available Back-End Server Strategy
• Designing a Highly Available Data Storage Strategy

This unit explains how to design a global directory system by propagating users, contacts, and groups from one forest GAL as contacts into the GAL of the other forest so Exchange Server users in one forest can search for employees from another forest in their local GAL which is stored in their forest's Active Directory.

• Identifying Requirements for Inter-organisational Connectivity
• Planning for Inter-organisational Global Address List (GAL) Synchronisation Strategy
• Planning an Inter-organisational Public Folder Strategy

This unit explains how to design an upgrade or migration strategy that minimises costs and downtime, and ensures that the upgrade or migration is performed in an efficient manner.

• Preparing to Migrate from Exchange Server 5.5
• Planning a Directory Upgrade Strategy
• Planning a Server Migration Strategy
• Planning to Switch from a Mixed Mode to Native Mode Organisation

Unfortunately we do no have any courses scheduled at this time. Please email us your requirements and we will endeavour to provide this course for you.