Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: Administration

Learn how maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Server 2016—the most popular on-premise email solution.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Using the Exchange Control Panel

• Exchange 2016 administration center overview
• Create mailbox types
• Create distribution lists
• Configure linked mailboxes
• Configure email moderation
• Administer Exchange workload management

2. Managing the Mailbox Role

• Configure mailbox folder permissions
• Configure mailbox permissions
• Set up room mailbox delegates
• Set up site mailboxes
• Set up automapping
• Global mailbox role changes
• Add an administrator to manage Exchange

3. Managing Transport

• Manage Send and Receive connectors
• Interpret message tracking logs and protocol logs
• Manage transport rules
• Troubleshoot SMTP mail flow
• Troubleshoot Domain Security/TLS
• Understanding the new transport architecture

4. Exchange SLA

• Plan for Exchange updates
• Design an SLA solution for downtime
• Design SLA around RPO/RTO
• Design SLA for message delivery

5. Backup and Recovery

• Determine most appropriate backup solution/strategy
• Manage backups for mailbox databases
• Perform item-level recovery
• Recover the public folder hierarchy
• Recover a mailbox server role
• Perform a dial tone restore

6. High Availability

• Plan for Exchange clustering
• Create database availability groups
• Replicate databases in a DAG
• Troubleshooting DAG database replication
• Manual database cluster failover
• Manage lagged copies

7. Troubleshooting Connectivity

• Monitor database replication and content indexing
• Manage DAG database copy activation
• Troubleshoot database failures

Conclusion

• Next steps