About Exam

• Designing an Upgrade or Migration and Coexistence Strategy
• Designing the Exchange Server 2003 Infrastructure
• Designing Connectivity for Exchange Server 2003
• Designing the Security Strategy

Exam Objectives

• Designing an Upgrade or Migration and Coexistence Strategy
• Design an upgrade strategy from previous versions of Exchange. Considerations include upgrading from Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 5.5, whether to upgrade the existing organization or create a new organizational structure, and designing connection agreements.
• Upgrade from Exchange Server 5.5.
• Upgrade from Exchange 2000 Server.
• Design coexistence and migration of Exchange Server 2003 with other messaging systems. Considerations include cc:Mail, MSMail, previous versions of Exchange, Lotus Notes, X.400 messaging systems, PROFS, SNADS, and Groupwise.
• Plan for coexistence/migration with foreign mail systems, such as Notes, cc:Mail, GroupWise, MS Mail, PROFS, TAO, and SNADS.
• Plan for coexistence with Exchange Server 5.5.
• Plan for coexistence with Exchange 2000 Server.
• Design the integration with the existing or planned Active Directory. Considerations include potential changes to the current or planned Active irectory structure, and inter-organizational connectivity and synchronization.
• Identify any changes needed to the Active Directory.
• Design inter-organizational connectivity and synchronization.
• Designing the Exchange Server 2003 Infrastructure
• Design an Exchange Server 2003 administrative model. Considerations include business factors, existing and planned administrative model, organizational unit (OU) structure, policies, administrative group placement and boundaries, and permissions.
• Designate and design servers. Server configurations include server placement, connectors, client computer access, and multiple protocols.
• Design server placement.
• Design Server Specialization.
• Design Exchange Server 2003 Public Folder Infrastructure. Considerations include company structure, geographical structure, maintenance policies, permissions, replication and indexing.
• Determining Public Folder Referrals.
• Design Public Folder Security.
• Design the storage strategy. Considerations include optimal database sizing, logging strategy, stores and storage group configurations.
• Design servers to achieve fault tolerance and increased performance. Considerations include server scalability, storage fault tolerance, front-end back-end topology, and clustering.
• Determine approach for scalability.
• Hardware fault tolerance (RAID).
• Design the front-end/back-end servers.
• Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) Clustering.
• Design a backup and recovery solution. Considerations include planning backup scope, defining the backup schedule, media storage and rotation, backup type, recovering the entire messaging system, individual databases, and servers; re-associating user mailboxes with accounts; and designing mailbox stores to support recovery.
• Designing Connectivity for Exchange Server 2003
• Design an Exchange Server 2003 routing group topology.
• Plan traffic flow. Considerations include ADC computer and bridgeheads, routing group boundaries, bandwidth, public folder replication, and existing network connections.
• Design Exchange 2003 Connectors.
• Design Exchange 2003 Virtual (protocol) Server Strategy.