This exam is designed for candidates who are responsible for the Exchange messaging environment in an enterprise environment. They are senior administrators who act as the technical lead over a team of administrators. These candidates are a third level of support between the Exchange Recipient Administrator and the Exchange Server Administrator.

Audience Profile

Candidates for this exam are responsible for the planning and deployment of the Exchange servers in an enterprise environment. They should have a minimum of two years of experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing Exchange servers.

These candidates typically:. have a minimum of two years of experience working with Exchange Server. have a minimum of six months of experience working with Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007. have a minimum of two years of experience administering Windows Server, including Windows Server 2008. have a minimum of two years of experience working with Active Directory. have a minimum of two years of experience working with name resolution, including DNS. have experience working with certificates, including PKI certificates. have experience working with Windows PowerShell

Credit Toward Certification

Exam 70-663: Pro: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: counts as credit toward the following certification(s): Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010

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Skills Being Measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.

Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure (20 percent)

* Design the Exchange Server 2010 installation.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: define Exchange server physical locations; Exchange DNS requirements; plan for common namespaces; SLA requirements; Active Directory site topologies; network topology; Exchange federation; multi-domain; multi-forest; resource forest; analysis and design of ongoing infrastructure improvements due to increased capacity, performance, and requested features

* Design message routing.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: inter-site and intra-site hub routing; connectors; coordinate messaging topics between Exchange departments, CIO, security, and LOB providers within the enterprise; develop connectors between Exchange and other messaging applications; design and deploy hub mail flow; design and deploy Edge connectors/scoping; design message transport; reverse zone (PTR records); scale hub transport server performance; storage requirements (shadow redundancy); multi-domain; multi-forest; resource forest; accepted domains; remote domains; send connector configuration; analysis and design of ongoing infrastructure improvements due to increased capacity, performance, and requested features

* Design the mailbox server role.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: plan database sizing; storage performance requirements - I/O and disk latency requirements; multi-domain; multi-forest; resource forest; public folders; design recipient, distribution group, and mailbox provisioning and deprovisioning policies; analysis and design of ongoing infrastructure improvements due to increased capacity, performance, and requested features

* Design client access.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: local vs. remote access; mobile access policies; identify and plan for supported messaging clients such as IMAP, POP, Exchange ActiveSync; Outlook Anywhere; Web services; OWA; MAPI (RPC Client Access); MAPI on the Middle Tier (MOMT); scale CAS server performance; storage requirements; multi-domain; multi-forest; resource forest; analysis and design of ongoing infrastructure improvements due to increased capacity, performance, and requested features; plan the location and configuration of Client Access servers; plan the AutoDiscover implementation; plan for Federated Sharing

* Plan for transition and coexistence.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: plan and investigate consolidation of Exchange servers; plan intra-org and inter-org migration; decommission legacy environment; free/busy; inter-org message routing; how to preserve the ability to reply to a message (x500, SMTP, and legacyExchangeDN); public folders (free/busy lookup, replication); identify when to use a transition rather than a migration

Deploying the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure (20 percent)

* Prepare the infrastructure for Exchange Server 2010 deployment.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: requirements to prepare schema, prepare domain, and prepare Active Directory; legacy permissions; prepare forest; forest functional level; domain controller versions, roles (excluding RODC/ROGC) and placement; prepare DNS (MX, sender ID, federation, PTR records)

* Deploy Edge transport server role.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: validate Exchange deployment; EdgeSync; configure transport agents; replace perimeter e-mail gateway; configure address rewriting

* Deploy client access server role.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: deploy CAS hardware and protocols; deploy mobile messaging services and connectivity; validate client connectivity; validate client functionality; autodiscover; multi site/domain/forest

* Deploy hub transport server role.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: validate Exchange deployment; multi site/domain/forest; configure transport rules; accepted domains; remote domains; send connector configuration; message and recipient limits; deploy message flow to and from the Internet; deploy e-mail relay; configure the accepted domain; validate message transport

* Deploy mailbox server role.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: database configuration and placement quota enforcement policies; deploy the mailbox server and storage; deploy the hardware configuration for mailbox servers; deploy the mailbox database; deploy address lists and offline address books; validate mailbox server performance; validate mailbox server access; deploy public folders; configure public folder replication; configure client access to public folders; configure public folder permissions

* Deploy server roles for coexistence and migration.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: coexistence with and migration from Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 and third-party mail systems; coexistence with namespaces; validate Exchange deployment; server transition process; transport rule coexistence; conversion from LDAP to OPATH filtering; routing group connector (RGC) configuration

Designing and Deploying Security for the Exchange Organization (20 percent)

* Design and deploy messaging security.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: secure relaying; S/MIME; certificates; MTLS; RMS (security related to using transport rules); define message security requirements; planning SMTP connector security; planning secure routing between partner organizations; planning client-based message security; planning the integration of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Exchange Server 2010; planning ControlPoint Encryption; planning Outlook Protection Rules

* Design and deploy Exchange permissions model.

o This objective may include but is not limited to: role-based