Candidates for this course operate in medium to very large networked computing environments that use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Candidates have a basic understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Certificate Services, RADIUS, Routing and Remote Access, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, IMAP, POP3, RDP, SMTP, and SSL. They have a minimum of one year of experience implementing and administering networks and operating systems in environments that have the following characteristics:
| Installing and Configuring Microsoft Exchange Servers |
- Prepare the infrastructure for Exchange installation.
- Prepare the servers for Exchange installation.
- Install Exchange.
- Configure Exchange server roles.
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| Configuring Recipients and Public Folders |
- Configure recipients.
- Configure mail-enabled groups.
- Configure resource mailboxes.
- Configure public folders.
- Move mailboxes.
- Implement bulk management of mail-enabled objects.
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| Configuring the Exchange Infrastructure |
- Configure connectors.
- Configure the antivirus and anti-spam system.
- Configure transport rules and message compliance.
- Configure policies.
- Configure public folders.
- Configure client connectivity.
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| Monitoring and Reporting |
- Monitor mail queues.
- Monitor system performance.
- Perform message tracking.
- Monitor client connectivity.
- Create server reports.
- Create usage reports.
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| Configuring Disaster Recovery |
- Configure backups.
- Recover messaging data.
- Recover server roles.
- Configure high availability.
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| Planning and Installing ISA Server 2004 |
- Plan an ISA Server 2004 deployment
- Assess and configure the operating system, hardware, and network services
- Deploy ISA Server 2004
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| Installing and Configuring Client Computers |
- Install Firewall Client software
- Configure client computers for ISA Server 2004. Types of client computers include Web Proxy
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| Firewall Client, and SecureNAT |
- Configure a local domain table (LDT)
- Configure ISA Server 2004 for automatic client configuration by using Web Proxy Automatic
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| Discovery (WPAD) |
- Diagnose and resolve client computer connectivity issues
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| Configuring and Managing ISA Server 2004 |
- Configure the system policy
- Back up and restore ISA Server 2004
- Define administrative roles
- Configure firewall settings
- Configure ISA Server 2004 for Network Load Balancing
- Configure ISA Server 2004 to support a network topology
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| Configuring Web Caching |
- Configure forward and reverse caching
- Optimize performance of the ISA Server 2004 cache
- Diagnose and resolve caching issues
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| Configuring Firewall Policy |
- Plan a firewall policy
- Create policy elements, access rules, and connection limits. Policy elements include schedule, protocols, user groups, and network objects
- Create policy rules for Web publishing
- Create policy rules for mail server publishing
- Create policy rules for server publishing
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| Configuring and Managing Remote Network Connectivity |
- Configure ISA Server 2004 for site-to-site VPNs
- Configure ISA Server 2004 as a remote access VPN server
- Diagnose and resolve VPN connectivity issues
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| Monitoring and Reporting ISA Server 2004 Activity |
- Monitor ISA Server 2004 activity
- Configure and run reports
- Configure logging and alerts
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