Course Length:

1 Day

Course Description:

This one-day course teaches messaging specialists to recover Exchange mailboxes and servers in a variety of disaster scenarios. Students will learn how to perform full and dial-tone recoveries of a mailbox server, as well as repair a mailbox database. They will also learn how to perform a full recovery of Client Access servers, Hub Transport servers, Unified Messaging servers, and Edge Transport servers.

Who Should Attend:

The audience for this course includes people who have experience with Exchange Server 2007 or previous Exchange Server versions. These people will have experience installing and configuring Exchange Server, configuring recipients and mailboxes, and supporting Exchange Server clients. People beginning this course are expected to have at least three years experience working in the Information Technology field—typically in the areas of network administration or Windows Server administration—and one year of Exchange Server administration experience.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Recover messaging databases.
• Prepare for and recover from Mailbox server failures.
• Prepare for and recover from non-Mailbox server failures.

Prerequisites:

This course requires that students have working knowledge of malware, how PKI is managed in the directory, Windows Server 2003 operating system, network technologies, Active Directory directory service, and Exchange Server 2007. Students should also have conceptual understanding of firewalls and e-mail technologies. Finally, students should have experience NT Backup, NSLookup, Microsoft Windows Explorer, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Sites and Services, Internet Information Services (IIS) Admin, and Microsoft Office Outlook. Students should have also completed course 5047A: Introduction to Installing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or have equivalent experience.

Course Outline:

• Module 1: Recovering Messaging Databases
  1. Overview of Database Recovery Scenarios
  2. Recovering a Messaging Database Using Dial-Tone Recovery
  3. Lab: Recovering Messaging Databases in Exchange Server 2007
  4. Performing a Storage Group Backup
  5. Performing a Dial-Tone Recovery
  6. Repairing a Damaged Database
• Module 2: Preparing for and Recovering from Mailbox Server Failures
  1. Preparing for a Mailbox Server Recovery
  2. Recovering Mailbox Servers Overview
  3. Lab: Preparing for and Recovering from Mailbox Server Failures
  4. Performing a Mailbox Server Backup
  5. Recovering a Mailbox Server
  6. Recovering Mailbox Server Data
• Module 3: Preparing for and Recovering from Non-Mailbox Server Failures
  1. Preparing for a Non-Mailbox Server Recovery
  2. Recovering Non-Mailbox Servers
  3. Lab: Preparing for and Recovering from Non-Mailbox Server Failures
  4. Performing a Non-Mailbox Server Backup
  5. Restoring a Client Access Server Certificate
  6. Restoring a Hub Transport Server
  7. Restoring an Edge Transport Server