Plan, deploy, and manage mailbox databases
Plan, deploy, and manage high availability solutions for mailbox databases
Plan, deploy, and manage a site-resilient Database Availability Group (DAG)
Monitor and troubleshoot mailbox databases
Plan, deploy, and manage backup and recovery solutions for mailbox databases
- Plan for database size and storage performance requirements; plan mailbox database capacity and placement; plan archive mailboxes capacity and placement ; plan modern public folder capacity and placement; plan for storage architecture (SAN, DAS, RAID, JBOD); plan file system requirements; plan for auto reseed; plan for virtualization requirements and scenarios; validate storage design by running JetStress; create and configure mailbox databases; manage mailbox databases; configure transaction log properties and file placement
Plan, deploy, and manage high availability solutions for mailbox databases
- Identify failure domains; plan a solution that meets SLA requirements around scheduled downtime; plan for software updates and server maintenance; plan for change management; create, configure, and manage Database Availability Groups (DAG); create, configure, and manage DAG networks; create, configure, and manage proper placement of a file share witness (FSW); create and configure mailbox database copies; create, configure, and manage Azure file share witness (FSW); create, configure, and manage Azure DAG members
Plan, deploy, and manage a site-resilient Database Availability Group (DAG)
- Recommend quorum options with given customer requirements; plan, create, and configure cross-site DAG configuration; plan, deploy and configure Datacenter Activation Coordination (DAC); configure and manage proper placement of an alternate file share witness (FSW); test and perform site recovery
Monitor and troubleshoot mailbox databases
- Monitor mailbox database replication and content indexing; troubleshoot mailbox database replication and replay; troubleshoot mailbox database copy activation; troubleshoot mailbox database performance; troubleshoot database failures (e.g., repair, defrag, recover); resolve quorum issues; troubleshoot data center activation
Plan, deploy, and manage backup and recovery solutions for mailbox databases
- Plan most appropriate backup solution that meets SLA requirements of recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives; deploy, configure, and manage lagged mailbox database copies; recover an Exchange server, mailbox database, mailbox, public folder or mail item; recover the public folder hierarchy; perform a dial tone restore