Deploying Exchange Server 2019

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

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2019

1. Planning for Exchange Deployment

02 - Requirements for deployment
03 - Migration considerations from Exchange 2013 and 2016
04 - AD preparation for domain controllers
05 - Exchange 2019 installation
06 - Exchange management tools
07 - Accepting domain setup
08 - Plan for database size and storage performance requirements
09 - Plan mailbox role capacity and placement
10 - Create and configure public folders and placement
11 - Plan for preferred architecture
12 - Create and configure offline address book (OAB)
13 - How to create user and shared mailboxes
14 - Create resource mailboxes
15 - Create distribution groups
16 - Create contacts

2. Deploying the Client Access Services

17 - Planning for MAPI over HTTP and Outlook Anywhere
18 - Configure an address list
19 - Order authentication certificates
20 - Install authentication certificates
21 - Configure authentication methods
22 - Planning the namespace model

3. Deploying Email Transport

23 - Design intersite mail flow
24 - Plan for Domain Security TLS
25 - Edge Transport design
26 - Design message hygiene solutions
27 - Configure Send and Receive connectors
28 - Configure transport rules

4. Deploying High Availability

29 - Plan for Exchange clustering
30 - Create database availability groups
31 - Replicate databases in a DAG
32 - Troubleshooting DAG database replication
33 - Add an administrator to manage Exchange
34 - Manual database cluster failover

5. Command Line Setup Options

35 - Installing roles through CLI
36 - Checking database integrity
37 - Data loss prevention policy setup

6. Deploying Mobile and Outlook Solutions

38 - Controlling mobile device functionality
39 - Outlook Web Access from any computer
40 - Accessing Exchange using Outlook

Conclusion

41 - Next steps

Deploying Exchange Server 2019

Authors

Robert McMillen