MS-203 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft 365 Messaging)
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Preparing for the MS-203 Microsoft 365 Messaging exam to achieve the Microsoft 365 Certification for Messaging Administrator Administrator Associate? Don’t know where to start? This post is the MS-203 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).
I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the MS-203 exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Manage Organizational Settings and Resources (30-35%)
- Plan and Manage the Mail Architecture (20-25%)
- Plan and Implement a Hybrid Configuration and Migration (20-25%)
- Secure the Messaging Environment (20-25%)
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Manage Organizational Settings and Resources (30-35%)
Plan and Manage Organizational Settings
- Manage Global Address List (GAL)
- Create a global address list in Exchange Online
- Address lists in Exchange Server
- Manage Offline Address Book (OAB)
- Offline address books in Exchange Online
- Change the default offline address book
- Manage address book policies
- Address book policies in Exchange Online
- Change the settings of an address book policy
- Manage email address policies
- Email address policies
- Configure organizational sharing
- Organization relationships in Exchange Online
- Create an organization relationship
- Manage add-ins
- Add-ins for Outlook in Exchange Online
- Third-party add-ins for online meetings in Outlook
Plan and Manage Client Access
- Plan namespaces
- Namespace planning in Exchange
- Configure virtual directories and URLs
- Configure Outlook on the web virtual directories
- Configure external URLs
- Configure internal URLs
- Configure global Outlook on the Web policies
- Configure Outlook on the web mailbox policy properties
- Configure Autodiscover
- Autodiscover service in Exchange Server
- Troubleshoot client access connectivity problems
- Outlook connection issues with Exchange mailboxes
- Troubleshooting client connectivity
- Manage Exchange certificates lifecycle
- Digital certificates in Exchange Server
- Add and manage DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) signatures to domains
- Use DKIM to validate outbound emails
Manage Recipient Resources
- Manage archive mailboxes
- Managing archive mailboxes
- Manage in-place archives
- Manage resource mailboxes
- Managing resource mailboxes
- Manage groups (distribution list, dynamic distribution list, mail-enabled security group, and Microsoft 365 group) by using the Classic or New Exchange admin center
- Create and manage distribution groups in Exchange Online
- Create distribution groups in the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Manage dynamic distribution groups
- Manage mail-enabled security groups
- Manage guest access to Microsoft 365 groups
- Manage mailboxes
- Manage user mailboxes
- Manage mailbox permissions
- Manage permissions for recipients
- Give mailbox permissions to another user
- Configure mailbox policies
- Configure web mailbox policy properties
- Manage shared mailboxes
- Create a shared mailbox
- Shared mailboxes in Exchange Online
- Evaluate license options
- Exchange license types
- Create and manage contacts (Mail contact and Mail user)
- Manage mail contacts in Exchange Online
- Manage mail users in Exchange Online
Manage Mobile Devices
- Configure mobile device mailbox policies
- Mobile device mailbox policies in Exchange
- Configure mobile authentication methods
- Account setup with modern authentication
- Configure and manage Outlook mobile
- Managing Outlook for iOS and Android
- Manage mobile device access
- Manage access to Exchange Online from iOS & Android
- Configure and manage ActiveSync
- Support more mobile devices by using Exchange ActiveSync
Plan and Manage the Mail Architecture (20-25%)
Plan and Configure Transport Architecture
- Plan connectors
- Connectors
- Configure mail flow using connectors
- Create and configure connectors
- Set up connectors between Microsoft 365 & your email servers
- Configure connectors between tenants
- Microsoft 365 inter-tenant collaboration
- Configure enhanced filtering for connectors
- Enhanced Filtering for Connectors
Manage Mail Flow
- Manage transport rules
- Mail flow rules (transport rules)
- Manage mail flow rules in Exchange Online
- Manage accepted and remote domains
- Manage accepted domains
- Manage remote domains
- Manage hybrid mail flow
- Manage mail flow between Exchange Online & on-premises
Troubleshoot Mail Flow
- Validate inbound and outbound mail flow
- Troubleshoot mail flow
- Validate connectors
- Trace a message by using the Classic or New Exchange admin center
- Run a message trace in the classic EAC
- Message trace in the modern Exchange admin center
- Analyze a message trace
- View message trace results
- Analyze message headers
- Exchange Header Analysis
- How to read email message headers?
- Anti-spam message headers in Microsoft 365
- Analyze Non-Deliverable Reports (NDRs)
- Email non-delivery reports in Exchange
- Non-delivery report in the new Exchange admin center
- Investigate transport logs
- Transport logs in Exchange
- Monitor Mail Flow
- View mail flow reports in the Reports dashboard
- Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
- Use Remote Connectivity Analyzer to troubleshoot single sign-on issues
- Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant
- Scan Outlook by using the Microsoft Support & Recovery Assistant
Plan and Implement a Hybrid Configuration and Migration (20-25%)
Plan and Implement a Hybrid Environment
- Evaluate and configure hybrid free/busy access
- Demystifying Hybrid Free/Busy: what are the moving parts?
- Shared free/busy in Exchange hybrid deployments
- Decide between Exchange Classic Hybrid and Exchange Modern Hybrid
- Exchange Classic Hybrid vs. Exchange Modern Hybrid
- Manage the Edge server role
- Edge Transport servers with hybrid deployments
- Configure Organization Configuration Transfer (OCT)
- Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer
- Plan and configure the environment by using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)
- Hybrid Configuration wizard
- Deploy the Exchange Hybrid Agent
- Microsoft Hybrid Agent
Plan and Implement Migration
- Evaluate migration methods, including cutover, staged, PST Imports, IMAP, Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite), batch migration by using the Exchange admin center
- Microsoft 365 email migration performance
- Migrate email using the Exchange cutover method
- Perform a staged migration of email
- Migrate your IMAP mailboxes to Microsoft 365
- Perform a Google Workspace migration
- Manage migration batches
- Configure migration endpoints in Microsoft 365, including tenant-to-tenant
- Move mailboxes between on-premises & Exchange Online
- Configure migration endpoints
- Cross-tenant mailbox migration
- Manage mailbox migration request batches by using the Classic or New Exchange admin center
- Manage migration batches
- Manage mailbox migration
- Migrating from non-Microsoft messaging systems
- Migrate from other messaging systems
- Troubleshoot mailbox migration
- Troubleshoot migration issues in Exchange hybrid environment
Manage Public Folders
- Move content between public folder mailboxes
- Migrating public folders to Microsoft 365
- Move a public folder to a different public folder mailbox
- Create additional public folder mailboxes
- Create a public folder mailbox
- Implement public folder Top Level Hierarchy (TLH)
- Implementing a public folder Top-Level Hierarchy (TLH)
- Public folder hierarchy
- Implement mail-enabled public folders
- Mail-enable a public folder
- Plan and configure public folders
- Configure public folders for a hybrid deployment
- Manage hold and discovery for public folders
- Search and place a hold on public folders
- Plan a public folder migration to Microsoft 365
- Migrate legacy public folders to Microsoft 365
Secure the Messaging Environment (20-25%)
Manage Role-based Permissions
- Manage role groups
- Manage role groups in Exchange Online
- Assign user accounts to admin roles
- About the Exchange Online admin role
- Manage user roles
- Permissions in Exchange Online
- Manage a delegated Role-based Access Control (RBAC) setup
- Delegated setup
- Plan RBAC roles for eDiscovery
- Assign eDiscovery permissions
- RBAC roles for eDiscovery
Manage Message Hygiene Using Exchange Online and Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Plan for message hygiene
- Manage message hygiene using Exchange Online
- Configure and manage Anti-spam settings
- Antispam protection in Exchange
- Anti-spam protection in EOP
- Configure and manage Anti-malware policies
- Anti-malware protection in EOP
- Configure anti-malware policies in EOP
- Anti-malware protection in Exchange Online Protection
- Monitor and review quarantined items
- Quarantined email messages
- Manage quarantined messages and files
- Plan and configure Spam Confidence Levels (SCL)
- Spam confidence level (SCL) in EOP
- Exchange spam confidence level (SCL) thresholds
- Configure and manage safe attachments
- Set up Safe Attachments policies for Office 365
- Manage safe attachments
- Configure and manage safe links
- Set up Safe Links policies for Office 365
- Manage Safe Links
- Safe Links in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Configure and manage anti-phishing
- Anti-phishing policies in Microsoft 365
- Configure anti-phishing policies for Office 365
- Manage spam and malicious email user submissions
- User submissions policy
- Submit suspected spam, phish, & URLs
Manage Compliance
- Configure Exchange retention and retention policies
- Create a retention policy
- Create a retention policy in Exchange Server
- Apply a retention policy to mailboxes in Exchange Server
- Configure Exchange data loss prevention policies
- Data loss prevention in Exchange
- Data loss prevention in Exchange Server
- Configure Office 365 Labels, Retention, and DLP policies
- Create and configure sensitivity labels
- Create and configure retention policies
- Create, test, and tune a DLP policy
- Configure and analyze audit logs
- Manage mailbox auditing
- Manage journal rules
- Manage journaling
- Manage content search
- Content search
- Manage eDiscovery cases
- Get started with Core eDiscovery
- Manage an Advanced eDiscovery case
This brings us to the end of the MS-203 Microsoft 365 Messaging Study Guide.
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