Course Outline
Explore transport services
- The transport components of the Exchange
- Plan an effective message routing for your organization
- Modify message flow for your organization
- Describe which transport agents exist and what they do
Configure message transport
- Plan and set up domains for your organization
- Understand how the receive and send connectors work
Manage transport rules
- Understand what transport rules are
- Describe how transport rules work
- Configure custom transport rules
- Describe how transport rules can be used for data loss prevention
Manage mail flow
- Manage mail flow in Exchange organizations
- Understand mail flow for Exchange Servers
- Manage mail flow for Exchange Online
- Describe and manage mail flow in hybrid environments
Troubleshoot mail flow
- Understand how to troubleshoot SMTP mail flow issues
- Describe how to troubleshoot issues with a shared namespace
- Describe how to troubleshoot Transport Layer Security encryption issues
- Understand how Alert policies can be used to troubleshoot mail flow issues
Troubleshoot transport issues
- Troubleshoot network-based issues
- Plan troubleshooting procedures for connector and agent issues
- Plan troubleshooting procedures for architectural issues
- Describe how to troubleshoot transport issues with coexistence
Troubleshoot mail flow using logs
- Create searches for the message tracking log
- Describe how to troubleshoot using the protocol logs
- Understand how to work with the event logging for Exchange
Plan for message security
- Explain the use and features of Exchange Online Protection
- Plan message routing for Exchange Online Protection
- Investigate the available EOP reports and logs that enable organizations to monitor message hygiene
Manage anti-malware and anti-spam policies
- Understand the different message header fields relevant to spam and spoofing protection.
- Configure anti-spam and anti-malware filters in Exchange Server
- Manage extra features for outbound spam filtering and quarantine
- Implement protection features against phishing and spoofing
- Create transport rules for custom requirements
Explore threat protection in Microsoft 365 Defender
- Describe the threat protection features of Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Understand how the Configuration analyzer reviews threat protection policies and provide suggestions for improvement
- Describe the protection provided by Safe Attachment and Safe Links policies
- Understand the spoof intelligence features provided by Exchange Online Protection
- Describe how Microsoft Defender anti-phishing policies work
- Understand the process of managing the Tenant Allow/Block list in Microsoft 365 Defender
Explore messaging compliance in Microsoft 365
- Describe different policy and compliance features for messaging
- Evaluate the different administrator roles in Microsoft 365
- Plan retention policies for Exchange Online mailboxes
- Create message traces to understand the mail flow in your Exchange Online organization
Explore messaging compliance in Exchange
- Describe litigation and in-place holds in Exchange Server
- Plan retention and deletion with Message Records Management (MRM)
- Analyze your Exchange organization's message tracking log
Manage Exchange Online archiving and auditing
- Describe what in-place archiving is and how it works
- Understand the differences between journaling and archiving
- Identify how mailbox and administrator audit logs are used
Manage Content Search
- Design content searches to search for messages in your organization
- Describe eDiscovery cases and in-place eDiscovery for Exchange
Manage authentication for messaging
- Configure password policy options
- Configure self-service password management
- Implement multi-factor authentication
- Plan password policies
- Configure modern authentication in Exchange Online
Configure organizational settings
- Configure workload policies and throttling
- Configure quota configurations
- Deploy Microsoft 365 Integrated apps
Configure organizational sharing
- Provide an overview of Exchange federated delegation sharing features
- Describe federated sharing components
- Identify considerations for designing and implementing federation trusts and certificates
- Implement organization relationships
- Implement sharing policies
Manage administrator roles
- Describe how RBAC is used to assign roles to users
- Understand management role groups and their administrative tasks
- Assign the built-in management roles for messaging administration
- Create custom management roles and assign them through role assignment policies to users
- Troubleshoot RBAC management roles
Manage user roles
- Describe the built-in end-user roles
- Configure role assignment policies
- Create new custom roles and role assignment policies
Analyze role-based permissions
- Identify the differences between shared permissions and split permissions
- Describe multi-forest permissions
- Identify the differences between the permission models
Explore the different types of Exchange recipients
- Describe the different recipient objects in Exchange
- Examine how organizations use resource mailboxes
- Compare shared mailboxes to linked mailboxes
- Describe how recipients can be grouped together to improve collaboration
- Examine how organization public folders
Create and manage Exchange recipients
- Manage mailbox settings
- Manage resource mailboxes and shared mailboxes
- Create and manage mail contacts and mail users
- Manage permissions for recipients
- Create and manage groups
- Create and manage public folders
Manage email addresses, lists, and resources
- Describe address lists
- Create and manage address lists
- Describe address book policies
- Configure offline address books
- Describe email address policies
Explore Exchange hybrid deployment requirements
- Describe connection options that are available for connecting on-premises Exchange to Microsoft 365
- List and describe components of a hybrid deployment
- Describe Azure Active Directory Connect (Azure AD Connect)
- Identify Microsoft 365 identity options for Exchange hybrid
- Compare Exchange delegated federation to OAuth
Plan and configure a hybrid deployment using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
- Plan for Exchange Hybrid configuration
- Describe Organization Configuration Transfer
- Explain Exchange Modern Hybrid and Hybrid Agent
- Plan mail flow options for a hybrid deployment
- Describe the prerequisites to run the Microsoft 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard
- Explain best practices for implementing a hybrid deployment
Provide a gateway for Internet email using Edge Transport servers
- Describe the purpose and functionality of Edge Transport servers
- Explain the infrastructure requirements for Edge Transport servers
- Describe the Edge Subscription process using EdgeSync
- Plan for message flow with an Edge Transport server
Implement advanced hybrid functionality
- Manage a hybrid deployment
- Describe when you must configure Public Folder coexistence with Microsoft 365
- Explain how to configure OAuth for a mixed Exchange environment
- Describe how to configure OneDrive attachments for on-premises mailboxes
Troubleshoot hybrid deployments
- Troubleshoot directory synchronization
- Troubleshoot pass-through authentication and single sign-on
- Troubleshoot transport with Exchange Online
- Troubleshoot client access in coexistence
- Troubleshoot the Mailbox Replication service
Plan mailbox migrations
- Describe the migration and coexistence strategies with Exchange Online
- Describe considerations that affect which migration option to use
- Determine whether DNS MX records must be changed during a mailbox migration
Run IMAP migrations
- Describe the requirements for an IMAP migration and how it’s carried out
- Move mailbox data using an IMAP migration
Run cutover and staged migrations
- Describe the requirements for both cutover and staged migrations
- Identify the steps involved in running both cutovers and staged migrations
- Create and manage migration batches in the Exchange Admin Center
Run advanced mailbox migrations
- Import PST Files to Exchange Online mailboxes
- Migrate Public Folders to Exchange Online
- Plan for a cross-tenant mailbox migration
- Prepare target user objects for cross-tenant migration