EMC Advanced EmailXtender Administration (XTEX590)

This course is designed for system administrators, support personnel, installation planners, field representatives, partners and product engineers who maintain, troubleshoot, and administer the EMC EmailXtender environment

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of

• Network administration in a TCP/IP environment
• Email administration using Microsoft Exchange
• Email archiving and management using EMC EmailXtender
• SAN, Fibre Channel issues (hardware components, installation and configuration)
• SCSI device configuration (cabling and addressing)
• Microsoft clustering services

Student must have completed the following pre-requisite courses

• EMC EmailXtender Administration for Microsoft Exchange (XTEX575) OR EMC EmailXtender Administration for Lotus Notes (XTEX580)
• EMC DiskXtender for Windows Installation, Configuration, and Management (XTDX556)

This advanced level course discusses administering and troubleshooting EmailXtender environments in more detail. The course provides a thorough knowledge of various utilities available to maintain an EmailXtender system. The course discusses ingestion of PST files into the archive, verifying the archives, storing container files on a Centera. Participants will also learn how to configure EmailXtender for disaster recovery and high availability environments. Hands-on labs, provided in a Windows 2003 environment with a Microsoft Exchange 2003 mail server, include migrating containers to Centera using DiskXtender for Windows.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Explain the EmailXtender process flow while archiving messages
• Discuss the various methods of archiving messages using EmailXtender
• Use various EmailXtender utilities for system maintenance
• Perform advanced administration tasks
• Explain the operation of EMC User Cache
• Archive messages to a Centera using DiskXtender for Windows
• Troubleshoot the messaging environment and identify and correct specific issues
• Configure EmailXtender for disaster-recovery and high availability environments

Modules

These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:

• EmailXtender message process flow
• Archiving messages using EmailXtender
• Performing advanced administration
• Using EmailXtender User Cache
• Archiving messages to Centera
• Disaster recovery for EmailXtender
• High availability solutions for EmailXtender

Labs

Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. The labs for this course include:

• Lab 1-1: Archiving PST files
• Lab 1-2: Archiving on a scheduled basis (without journaling)
• Lab 1-3: Installing Archive Verification Utility (AVU)
• Lab 1-4: Verifying archives using AVU
• Lab 2-1: Using EmailXtender utilities
• Lab 3-1: Installing EmailXtender User Cache
• Lab 4-1: Archiving to Centera using DiskXtender for Windows

Assessments

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented during a learning experience. This course includes review questions at the end of each module