Designing a High Availability Messaging Solution Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Course details

Students will learn how to identify risks and create mitigation plans to maintain the business continuity of the messaging system. Students will also learn how to design a backup strategy, disaster recovery procedures, and test plans for procedures.

Course Outline

1 - Foundational High Availability Concepts for Messaging

• Introduction to Service Level Management
• Overview of High Availability Technologies
• Lab: Foundational High Availability Concepts for Messaging

2 - Evaluating High Availability Technologies for Exchange Server 2007

• Evaluating High Availability Options for Mailbox Servers
• Evaluating High Availability Options for Non-Mailbox Servers
• Lab A: Evaluating High Availability Messaging Technologies
• Lab B: Evaluating High Availability Messaging Technologies

3 - Creating a High Availability Messaging Strategy

• Designing a High Availability Strategy for Mailbox Servers
• Designing a High Availability Solution for Non-Mailbox Servers
• Lab: Creating a High Availability Messaging Strategy

4 - Designing the Messaging Portion of a Business Continuity Plan

• Overview of Business Continuity Planning
• Identifying Threats to the Messaging Organization
• Mitigating Threats to the Messaging Organization
• Designing the Business Continuity Plan
• Lab: Designing the Messaging Portion of a Business Continuity Plan

5 - Designing Backup for a High Availability Messaging Environment

• Identifying Backup Requirements
• Designing Backup Procedures
• Lab: Designing Backup for a High Availability Messaging Environment

6 - Ensuring Recovery Readiness of a High Availability Messaging Environment

• Designing Recovery Strategies
• Evaluating Disaster Recovery Readiness
• Lab: Ensuring Recovery Readiness of a High Availability Messaging Environment

Target Audience: This course is intended for people with 3 or more years experience working with previous versions of Exchange Server and experience implementing Exchange Server 2007. Most students will have managed enterprise-level Exchange Server organizations. Students are expected to be new to participating in designing high availability solutions for Exchange Server 2007 or be planning to design high availability solutions for Exchange Server 2007 in the near future. Students may have done some design for Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 deployments but want to learn how to design Exchange Server 2007 environments. Students may have experience in designing and managing high availability solutions for other network services.