Who should attend
This workshop is aimed at Exchange administrators who are faced with the requirement to migrate their existing Exchange 2010/2013 environment to Exchange 2016 and who want to use this workshop in advance to get to know and carry out all the necessary steps of a migration in practice. In addition, the workshop conveys the know-how for the efficient administration and setup of an Exchange 2016 environment. The innovations of Exchange 2019 are also presented and evaluated.
Course Content
Part 1: Migration (2 days) An existing preconfigured Exchange 2010/2013 environment will be updated to Exchange 2016. In detail:
- Requirements for using Exchange 2016
- Active Directory update
- Installation of Exchange 2016 in the existing 2010 environment
- Change of client access to Exchange 2016
- Configuration of autodiscover
- Setting up the virtual directories
- X.509 certificates for Exchange
- Change of mail routing
- Mailbox migration
- Public folder migration
- Removal of the old server
- Final testing
Part 2: Administration of an Exchange 2016/2019 environment (3 days)
- Overview of administration tools
- Management of recipient objects
- Mailbox role management (Exchange as database server)
- Transport and journal rules
- Address guidelines and address lists
- Management of the client access role (Exchange as HTTPS, POP3 and IMAP4 server)
- Use of mobile devices
- The exact functionality of Autodiscover and the corresponding configuration
- The importance of X.509 certificates for Exchange
- Setup options for a secure internet connection
- Management of the hub transport role (Exchange as SMTP server with its connectors)
- Public folder management
- High availability for Exchange
- Reliability for databases
- Reliability and load balancing for client access
- Reliability in mail routing
- Exchange backup and restore
- Exchange disaster recovery opportunities
- Exchange archiving options
- Prevention of loss of sensitive data
- Global search and archive in Exchange 2016
- Exchange 2016 permissions model
- Monitoring and maintenance of Exchange 2016
- What's new in Exchange 2019
- Installation on server core
- Use of SSDs for fast caching
- Search index improvements
- Use of up to 256GB RAM for caching
- New hybrid tools (Organization Configuration Transfer - OCT and Hybrid Config Agent)
- Classification of Exchange 2019