Deploying The Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure

By Author: Mike Jones
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This section focuses on actually deploying the planned setup. You’ll need to prove your mcitp server administrator ability to prepare the infrastructure for an Exchange 2010 deployment, and deploy the server itself. This includes the Edge transport, client access, hub transport, mailbox, and rules/roles for migration and coexistence. It is worth noting that you will need to be able to migrate from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, and 2010.

Deploy mailbox server role which involves database configuration and placement quota enforcement policies, deploying the mailbox server and storage, deploying the hardware configuration for mailbox servers, deploying the mailbox database, address lists and offline address books, validating mailbox server performance and access and more
Deploy server roles for coexistence and migration — this includes coexistence with and migration from Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 and third-party mail systems, coexistence with namespaces and validating Exchange deployment, among others

The security section is probably one of the most important ...
... topics (percentage and presence aside) when it comes to Exchange Server. Even putting the exam aside, from a professional standpoint, you should pay careful attention to this section.
Going back to the exam, you’ll be tested on your mcitp enterprise administrator ability to design and deploy messaging security, permission models, “message hygiene,” client access security, and object permissions. This encompasses everything from certificates to public folders.

Here are the specifics for this category:
Design and deploy messaging security besides securing relaying and defining message security requirements, planning is the key for this objective and includes planning SMTP connector security, secure routing between partner organizations, client-based message security, integration of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Exchange Server 2010, ControlPoint Encryption and Outlook Protection Rules
Design and deploy Exchange permissions model which includes role-based access control (RBAC) assignments, scopes, and roles, Exchange Control Panel (ECP), modification of default RBAC roles, creation of custom RBAC roles, planning administrative permissions using the built-in management roles and custom management roles
Design and deploy message hygiene including Edge security, anti-spam and anti-virus solution for the messaging deployment, safe list aggregation, block lists, phishing confidence level (PCL), spam confidence level (SCL), sender reputation level (SRL) and more
Design and deploy client access security including ActiveSync policies, certificates for Exchange CAS, alternate authentication (such as smart cards, client certificates, time-based two-factor authentication tokens), authentication protocols (such as plain text, NTLM, forms based, Kerberos) and OWA segmentation
Design and deploy Exchange object mcsa exams permissions including public folder security, mailbox, resource security, distribution groups, and mailbox client access security (POP, IMAP, ActiveSync, OWA, MAPI)