Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate: MS-200: Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform
Certification Exam:
- 13 Courses | 15h 9m 28s
- 11 Courses | 16h 54m 56s
- 1 Book | 3h 52m
Discover how to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor messaging infrastructure, and explore cloud enterprise environments, permissions, client access, mail protection, and mail flow as you prepare for the MS365 Certified MS-200 and MS-201 exams.
GETTING STARTED
Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Planning Hybrid Environments
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Messaging Infrastructure Lifecycle
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COURSES INCLUDED
Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Planning Hybrid Environments
This course prepares learners for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this 10 video course, you will learn what to consider prior to implementing hybrid deployment services and components. Learn the primary administrative tools in the EAC (Exchange admin center), then explore Microsoft's Exchange Server hybrid deployment to extend on-premises features to the cloud. Next, learn about the management tools for on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online organizations, and how to share free/busy information between on-premises and Exchange Online users. This course examines required components for implementing a hybrid configuration, including on-premises Exchange servers and Office 365 subscription, the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, an Azure Active Directory authentication system, and Azure Active Directory synchronization. You will also learn about the HybridConfiguration Wizard. Finally, learners will explore what to consider when evaluating Federation to authenticate users in a hybrid coexistence.
10 videos |
38m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Deploying Hybrid Environments
This 19-video course prepares learners for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this course, you will use the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and learn how to deploy a hybrid Exchange environment while learning about OAuth authentication, transport options, and the OCT (Organization Configuration Transfer) utility. Next, learners will examine Edge transport servers, and how to use them with hybrid deployments, transport options, and transporting routing of inbound and outbound messages. You will examine how federation is implemented by the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and learn how to use the Organization Configuration Transfer Wizard. You will install and set up the Hybrid Agent; install additional agents with the Hybrid Configuration Wizard; check their status, and test and validate by using the Performance Monitor. Finally, examine how to use the Hybrid Modern Authentication with Outlook for iOS, including connection flow, licensing requirements, and the implementation of Hybrid Modern Authentication.
19 videos |
1h 17m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Migration
Prepare for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam with this 19-video course. The exam tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this course, you will learn to plan, implement, and troubleshoot issues when migrating mailboxes in a hybrid Exchange environment. Learners will then examine the configuration of migration batches and migration endpoints, and how to use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to view the status of existing batches. Explore three options for migrating mailboxes from Exchange Server using the office 365 Import Service to migrate .pst files, and how users can import their own e-mail and contacts to Office 365. You will next learn how to add an Office 365 account to a local Outlook client, ways to migrate multiple e-mail accounts for a staged migration to Office 365, and how users can import their e-mail and contacts. Finally, you will learn migration endpoints, and features of the Remote Connectivity Analyzer.
19 videos |
1h 33m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Public Folders
The MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this 20-video course, learners prepare for that exam by exploring public folders in Exchange Server 2019, including how to create and manage them, and how to migrate public folders to Office 365 in Exchange Online. Begin by examining public folders in an Exchange organization, including migration scenarios, quotas, and how to create public folder mailboxes. Next, study differences between public folders and Office 365 groups, and examine public folder architecture in both Office 365 and Exchange Online. Learners then explore what to consider before moving public folder mailboxes to Exchange Online, and demonstrate how to use the Exchange administrative center (EAC) to create a public folder. Finally, explore permissions required to implement an in-place hold, and use the EAC to configure a query-based hold, copy search results to a discovery mailbox, and remove an in-place hold.
20 videos |
1h 31m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Role-based Permissions
In this 18-video course, learners continue preparations for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. Learners will observe how to restrict access in Exchange Server to authorized users with RBAC (role-based access control). Explore role-based permissions, how to manage both the RBAC and the discovery management role group. Moving on to the role of group layers, you will learn how to plan RBAC roles for eDiscovery; how to add users to the discovery management role group; how to assign a role group delegate; and how to verify membership details. Learners observe how to use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to create, copy, view and remove a role group, add a management role to a role group, and change the scope. Finally, you will learn how to use the EAC to create a new assignment policy and how to change the assignment policy on a mailbox.
18 videos |
1h 12m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Message Hygiene
This 23-video course continues preparing learners for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this course, learners examine several built-in features of Exchange to manage and ensure message hygiene, including malware, spam filters, and quarantining. You will examine message hygiene in both Exchange Server on-premises and Exchange Online, and use the Exchange administrator center to edit the default connection filter policy. Then you will learn to configure and allow block lists, and outbound filtering. You will learn anti-spam message headers, and how to quarantine e-mail messages. Next, examine viewing quarantined messages, files and their details, and options for managing items in quarantine, and learn to configure the quarantine retention period. Finally, you will learn the ATP (advanced threat protection) capabilities in Office 365, set up and recognize different ATP anti-phishing policy options, and create a custom anti-spam policy by using the Security & Compliance Center.
23 videos |
1h 32m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
In preparation for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings, this 14-video course explores protecting organizations against malicious threats by using Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) capabilities. You will examine MS Office 365 ATP, a cloud-based e-mail filtering service with several capabilities, including real-time protection. You will also learn how to set up a custom list of blocked URLs, and to edit a custom "Do not write" URL list. Next, learners will examine dynamic delivery options for e-mails with attachments, and Office 365 ATP for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. This course then demonstrates how to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for scanning, how to access real-time messaging reports, and explore the use of threat trackers against cyber threats. Finally, learn features of the Threat Explorer tool and how to use the Attack Simulator tool.
14 videos |
1h 2m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Compliance
Learners continue preparing for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam in this 17-video course exploring Exchange Online features concerning security and compliance to preserve e-mail records, meet regulatory requirements, and fulfill eDiscovery requests. The exam tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this course, you will examine Exchange online features in the Messaging Policy Compliance and Security, and Compliance Center. You will also learn Data Encryption Options, and Office 365 Message Encryption. Next, learners see how to enable an Archive mailbox, explore In-Pace eDiscovery, and handle Inactive Mailboxes. Then explore Auditing Reports, the MRM (Messaging Records Management) feature in Exchange Online, and S/MIME (secure multipurpose internet mail extensions) for message signing and encryption. This course examines journaling in Exchange Online, and demonstrates the Content Search eDiscovery tool. Finally, explore holds in Exchange Online including, In-Place and Litigation Holds, Holds and the Recoverable Items folder, Holds and Mailbox Quotas, and Holds and E-mail Forwarding.
17 videos |
1h
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Retention & Data Loss Prevention
This course prepares you for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this 17-video course, explore how retention and DLP (data loss prevention) policies help define how organizations share and protect sensitive and valuable data. You will learn how to protect sensitive information, comply with business standards and industry regulations. This course provides an overview of DLP policies, examines what a DLP policy should contain, and how to create and manage DLP policies. Learners see how to configure data loss prevention policies by using preconfigured templates and how to create custom policies and templates. You will examine how DLP policies are prioritized, and how to edit which order they are in. Finally, view DLP reports to view policy matches and incidents, manage permissions for DLP reports, and provide an overview of retention policies.
17 videos |
1h 24m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Sharing
This course prepares learners for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam, which tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this 16-video course, learners can examine information sharing in Exchange Online, including how to create and manage organizational relationships, and policies to share calendar information with external users. You will examine organizational relationships in Exchange Online; learn to use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to create an organizational relationship; and learn to add a domain to a relationship. Next, observe how to use the EAC to disable and change free/busy access levels for an organizational relationship, as well as how to remove a relationship. You will learn how to create sharing policies, and how to use the EAC to apply the sharing policy to single or multiple mailboxes. Finally, this course explores how to set the policy as a default, and to disable a sharing policy.
16 videos |
49m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: E-mail Address Policies and Workload Management
This 20-video course prepares learners for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam by examining Exchange Server e-mail address policies, available policy templates, and filtering methods. The exam tests abilities of messaging administrators to plan and implement a hybrid configuration, manage migration, secure the messaging environment, and manage organizational settings. In this course, you will learn to use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to create and modify e-mail address policies, apply policies to e-mail recipients, and remove e-mail address policies. Then you will examine managed availability, workload management components, and user resource consumption. Next, learn how to use the Get-ThrottlingPolicy cmdlet (lightweight command in PowerShell) to determine user throttling settings; use the new throttling policy cmdlet to create a user throttling policy; and use the Set-ThrottlingPolicy association cmdlet to assign policies to users. Then examine how to view and remove existing throttling policy associations, and delete policies. Finally, learners examine the available scopes in custom throttling policies and considerations for throttling in coexistence environments.
20 videos |
1h 20m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Address Lists
Exchange allows mail-enabled recipient objects to be collected and grouped together in an address list. In this course, we're going to explore the creation and management of the different types of Address Lists available in Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange Online. You'll start by learning the different types of Address Lists in Exchange Online, including Global Address Lists, built-in address lists, and custom address lists. You'll then see how to create an address list using Exchange Online PowerShell, and examine the use of recipient filters. Next, you'll see how to create, modify, and remove Global Address Lists using Exchange Online PowerShell. Lastly, you'll examine hierarchical address books in Exchange Online, including their use and configuration. These topics will help prepare you for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam.
11 videos |
39m
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Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform: Offline Address Books
An offline address book is a copy of a user address book that can be downloaded and used in an offline environment. In this course, you'll explore offline OABs in Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange Online, including how to create, use, and manage them. You'll start by examining the fundamentals of OABs, as well as OAB generation and the Mailbox Assistant. You'll then explore the OAB distribution process, planning a deployment, and moving OAB generation to another server. Next, you'll see how to download OABs using Outlook and how to use PowerShell to create an OAB. You'll continue on to see how to add and remove address lists from OABs and how to change the default OAB using Exchange Online PowerShell. You'll learn how to assign an OAB to users and how to remove an OAB using Exchange Online PowerShell. Lastly, you'll see address book policies, including how to create them using the Exchange Management Shell. These topics will help prepare you for the MS-201 Implementing a Hybrid and Secure Messaging Platform certification exam.
15 videos |
51m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Messaging Infrastructure Lifecycle
Learners can prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam by exploring how to manage the messaging infrastructure lifecycle in this 23-video course. You will learn how to plan an Exchange Server installation, prepare Active Directory for Exchange, and install and update Exchange services. Then examine the process for planning for an Exchange server installation, including Exchange architecture, requirements, and prerequisites. You will learn to use the Exchange Deployment Assistant, and install and configure an Office online server. Learners next examine Active Directory communication, changes made to the schema by Exchange installations, and changes made to the Active Directory forest and domains. This course demonstrates how to prepare Active Directory for Exchange Server, to install the Exchange mailbox, and describes Exchange Edge server roles. Learn how to perform an unattended installation, delegate an installation of Exchange, and upgrade Exchange to the latest cumulative update. Finally, you will learn about Exchange integration options and post installation tasks, how to verify the Exchange installation, and how to install management tools.
23 videos |
1h 54m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Database Management
In this 14-video course, learners can explore how to plan, create, configure, and troubleshoot databases for a modern messaging infrastructure, as they prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam. You will begin the course by exploring what to consider when planning mailbox database requirements, followed by a demonstration of how to create a Microsoft Exchange Mailbox and access and set its properties. Next, learners watch a practical demonstration of how to use shell cmdlets (lightweight commands in PowerShell) to move, mount, dismount, and remove a mailbox. Learn the basic rudiments of troubleshooting mailboxes. Finally, you will follow a demonstration of how to verify the Exchange Mailbox Assistant Services as healthy. After completing this course, you will be able to test to be sure that the Exchange search feature is enabled and functioning and be able to test the health of an instance of the Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication Service.
14 videos |
1h 3m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Recipient Resources
This 20-video course helps learners prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam by exploring how to manage recipient resources, including groups, mailboxes and license options. The course begins by examining the different recipient types in Exchange and demonstrating how to create a user mailbox, change the mailbox properties, and add or remove email addresses for a mailbox. Then you will learn how to create distribution, mail-enabled security, and dynamic distribution groups. Next, use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to create mail contacts and users, create room mailboxes, and assign permissions to a mailbox. Learners examine mailbox moves, and collaboration features such as public folders, shared mailboxes, archives, and distribution groups. From there, you will watch demonstrations of how to create shared mailboxes, view and configure Outlook on the web policies and manage mailbox archives. Finally, learners explore the various licensing options available in Exchange server: standard and enterprise licenses, distinguished by number of database mailboxes per server.
20 videos |
1h 36m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Database Availability Groups
Learners can prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam with this 23-video course exploring how to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot database availability groups (DAGs) to provide high availability and data recovery features in Exchange 2019. The course opens by exploring what to consider when planning for DAGs and how to create one with the EAC (Exchange administrator center). You will examine DAG membership, properties, and networks, then learn how to configure DAG members and add a mailbox database copy. Learners will see demonstrations of how to perform maintenance and install updates on DAG members, view the health of a DAG, and monitor for low disk space. Next, examine crimson channel event logging, switchovers and failovers, and how to use the EAC to perform a server switchover and remove a DAG. The course provides an overview of the high availability deployment process, active manager, disaster recovery, and site resilience. Finally, you will explore the third-party replication API included in exchange server and mailbox database copy management.
23 videos |
1h 57m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Client Access
Explore management and implementation of client access, including virtual directories, client access policies, the Autodiscover service, and Exchange certificates, in this 23-video course used to prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam. Learners will start by exploring namespaces, including design, planning considerations, and models. You will then examine Client Access services in Exchange, Client Access Rule components, and using the Exchange Management Shell to create Client Access Rules. Next, you will look at troubleshooting connectivity issues, and the benefits of load balancing. Examine virtual directories including how to configure their properties, and external URLs for Outlook, as well as troubleshooting virtual directories. Learners will see a demonstration of how to create a web mailbox policy using the Exchange admin center, and how to remove a web mailbox policy from a mailbox. Then you will explore the Exchange AutoDiscover service including DNS requirements, Outlook configuration methods, and certificate requirements. The course concludes by examining digital certificates and encryption, certificates in Exchange, and self-signed certificates.
23 videos |
2h 8m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Disaster Recovery
Explore how to manage disaster recovery, including planning and execution of an effective backup and recovery strategy, in this course preparing learners for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam. The 18-video course begins by exploring different backup scenarios, Exchange Native Data Protection, and Exchange-aware and VSS-based backups. Next, you will examine the Exchange Server VSS Writer and Unified Context Store (UCS) recovery. Then explore various strategies for implementing backup and recovery scenarios. Learners will watch a practical demonstration of using Windows Server Backup to backup and restore Exchange, as well as how to recover an Exchange Server and a DAG member server. You will then examine recovery databases, including when to use them and how to create and restore data with recovery databases, and discuss dial tone portability and recovery. The course closes by exploring the use of dial tone databases to restore mail functionality and how to restore all data after a dial tone recovery.
18 videos |
1h 37m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Transport Pipeline
This 15-video course, used to prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam, explores the transport pipeline, including planning the architecture, designing multisite mail flow, and planning for high availability mail flow solutions. Learners begin by examining the transport pipeline-a collection of components responsible for moving mail around within an organization, and to and from the organization-and the transport service on both mailbox servers and Edge Transport servers. Then you will hear descriptions of message redundancy in the Front End Transport service on Mailbox servers, and Shadow Redundancy in Exchange. Next, explore SMTP timeouts and the message processing procedure after an outage. Other key topics covered in this course include maintaining shadow messages, message loss, safety nets and their maximum sizes, and message resubmissions. The course concludes with discussions of how the Safety Net feature in Exchange works, Safety Net configuration settings, and how message resubmission from the Safety Net is processed.
15 videos |
1h 15m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Connectors
Explore how to plan, configure, and manage send connectors and receive connectors in this 22-video course, designed to help in preparation for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam. Learners begin the course by examining receive connectors, including default receive connectors, local address bindings, and remote addresses. Then you will explore receive connector usage types, authentication mechanisms, and permission groups. Next, learners examine scenarios for custom receive connectors and demonstrate how to modify the SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) banner and allow anonymous relay. Then you will move on to examine send connectors, including usage types, network settings, address spaces, permissions, and scope. Also covered in this course are key considerations for implementing custom receive connectors, including the widely used Exchange Server default connectors. Finally, the course gives practical demonstrations of how to create Internet mail and outbound mail send connectors; how to configure proxy outbound mail send connectors; and how to enable protocol logging.
22 videos |
1h 40m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Mail Flow
This 17-video course, which helps learners to prepare for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam, explores mail flow management, how to manage transport rules and domains, and how to implement hybrid multisite mail flow. You will begin the course by examining mail flow rule components and how mail flow rules are applied. Then examine conditions and exceptions on Mailbox and Edge transport servers, along with property types used in conditions and exceptions. Next, you will examine and configure actions in mail flow rules on Mailbox and Edge transport servers, and examine available action properties. Then learn to configure a signature disclaimer along with fallback options, custom formatting options, and rule processing configuration. You will hear descriptions of various types of accepted domains and subdomains in Exchange, and watch a demonstration of how to use the EAC (Exchange administrator center) to view accepted domains and configure the domain type. The course concludes by examining how to manage hybrid mail flow with mailboxes in multiple locations.
17 videos |
1h 26m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Troubleshooting Mail Flow Problems
This 17-video course, which helps prepare learners for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam, explores how to troubleshoot mail flow problems. The course includes pointers on working with transport logs and message traces, and monitoring mail flow. You will begin the course by examining how to troubleshoot mail flow issues caused by connectors and incorrect SPF (sender policy framework) records or mail exchanger (MX) records. Then watch demonstrations of how to use delivery reports and tracking logs and how to configure message tracking. Next, you will learn to search the message tracking logs and analyze external connectivity with the remote connectivity analyzer. Here descriptions of information found in nondelivery reports (NDRs), and the different enhanced status codes. Then examine pipeline logging and agent logging, and describe how to use connectivity, protocol, and routing table logging to troubleshoot mail flow issues. The course concludes by examining the use of the test mail flow cmdlet (lightweight command) for diagnosing mail flow issues.
17 videos |
1h 16m
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Configuring a Messaging Platform: Mobile Devices
Learners explore how to manage mobile devices, including configuring mobile device mailbox policies and managing mobile device access, in this 16-video course preparing for the MS-200 Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform certification exam. Begin by examining mobile device support for ActiveSync and device security settings. After reviewing Exchange ActiveSync features, learn how to manage ActiveSync configuration; enable or disable access to mailboxes using Exchange ActiveSync; and configure default access and quarantine notification settings for Exchange ActiveSync. Next, learn how to block use of Outlook for iOS and Android, and watch a demonstration of configuring a device access rule to enable it. See how to allow or block devices quarantined based on the ActiveSync configuration, and use the Exchange admin center (EAC) to remotely wipe a device. After an overview of mobile device mailbox policies, learn to use the EAC to configure a mobile device mailbox policy, and assign a policy to specific mailboxes. Finally, learn how security and authentication work with Outlook for iOS and Android, and examine PIN lock and encryption features.
16 videos |
57m
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