3910 Getting Started With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Session 1: Overview of Exchange Server 2007

This session introduces the most important new features of Exchange Server 2007. The clinic covers most of these features in more detail later. During the session, students are encouraged to think about the benefits to your organization of adopting Exchange Server 2007.

Introducing Exchange Server 2007

Introducing the Exchange Server 2007 Architecture

Introducing the Exchange Server 2007 User Experience

Session Review

Demonstration: Using the Calendaring Concierge

Create an appointment in Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA) and move it around in the Work Week view to view the transparency feature

Use advanced calendar features in OWA to create and modify a meeting

View the schedule of a resource

Demonstration: Using the New Features in OWA

Use the Out-of-Office Assistant

Access shared documents in OWA

Using Search in OWA

After completing this session, students will be able to:

Contrast the features of Exchange Server 2007 with earlier versions of the software.

Describe how to make the best use of the new features of the Exchange Server 2007 architecture.

Describe how Exchange Server 2007 will benefit users.

Summarize the most important new features of Exchange Server 2007.

Session 2: Overview of Exchange Server 2007 Administration

This session describes new features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that have the greatest potential for reducing the workload of administrators.

Lessons

Installing Exchange Server 2007

Introduction to Exchange Server 2007 Administration Tools

Administering Recipients

Configuring Exchange Server 2007

Administering Client Access Servers

Session Review

Demonstration: Scripting Exchange Management Shell Tasks

Use the Exchange Management Console to change the telephone number for some users in the organization

Use the Exchange Management Shell to change the telephone number for all users in the organization

Use the Exchange Management Shell to change the telephone number for all users that have a name beginning with K

Demonstration: Creating and Moving Recipients

Create and move a mailbox using the Exchange Management Console

Create and move multiple mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell

Demonstration: Configuring Server Roles by Using the GUI

Configuring the Mailbox Server Role

Configuring the Client Access Server Role

Administering Bridgehead Settings

After completing this session, students will be able to:

Compare the GUI method of installation to the command-line method of installation.

Compare the Exchange Management Console to the Exchange Management Shell and evaluate which to use in a given situation.

Evaluate how Exchange Server 2007 introduces efficiencies into the administration of recipients.

List best practices for the administration of Exchange Server 2007.

Compare Exchange Server 2007 client access servers with front-end servers in earlier versions of Exchange Server.

Identify how the administration of Exchange Server 2007 requires less time than the administration of previous versions of Exchange Server.

Session 3: Overview of Exchange Server 2007 Architecture

This session describes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server roles and enables you to choose where to deploy a given server role. It also describes how Exchange Server can help you to comply with messaging regulations and how Exchange Server 2007 achieves high availability.

Lessons

Introduction to Exchange Server Roles

Implementing Security, Compliance, and Archiving

High Availability

Session Review

Demonstration: Adding Server Roles by Using the Command Line

Adding the Unified Messaging role to the MTL-MSG2 server

After completing this session, students will be able to:

Evaluate which Exchange server role is appropriate in a given scenario.

Discuss how Exchange Server 2007 can improve an organization’s security and compliance with corporate policies.

Describe how higher availability can be achieved with Exchange Server 2007 than with earlier versions of Exchange Server.

List the major improvements to the Exchange Server architecture and the advantages of each improvement.

Session 4: Overview of Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007

This session describes Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2007. During this session, you will learn how you can use Unified Messaging to give users unprecedented access to their messages, both in the office and at remote locations.

Lessons

Unified Messaging

Session Review

Demonstration: Administering Unified Messaging Users

Creating a dial plan using the Exchange Management Console

Creating a Unified Messaging (UM) IP gateway using the Exchange Management Console

Enabling the Sales users for Unified Messaging by using the Exchange Management Shell

After completing this session, students will be able to:

List best practices for enabling users to access their messages.

Summarize the features of Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging.