MS-220T00: Troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Online — Lesson 3: Authentication, Compliance, Hybrid, and Migration Troubleshooting

Topics Covered

• Troubleshoot mailbox provisioning, permissions, delegation, and recipient configuration
• Resolve retention, eDiscovery, audit, compliance, and policy-application issues
• Diagnose hybrid configuration, free/busy, federation, and migration problems
• Security, reliability, performance, support, and operational controls
• Common failure patterns, diagnostic evidence, and root-cause analysis
• Corrective actions, rollback considerations, and reusable runbook updates

Guided Practice Steps

1. Translate the lesson requirement into a clear MS-220T00: Troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Online implementation or analysis objective.
2. Document assumptions, selected tools or features, dependencies, risks, and expected results.
3. Perform the guided task, capture evidence, and compare the result with the acceptance criteria.
4. Record issues, corrective actions, and a reusable operational or development note.

Practical Activity

Investigate a hybrid authentication-and-migration scenario using a hypothesis-driven workflow.

• Define the scenario, inputs, constraints, and expected outcome.
• Complete the activity and preserve screenshots, outputs, logs, code, or decision evidence.
• Review the result, identify gaps, and document corrective or improvement actions.

Validation Checklist

• The stated requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• Configuration, code, data, or design decisions are documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational considerations are reviewed.
• Evidence supports the conclusion and the next action is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Authentication, Compliance, Hybrid, and Migration Troubleshooting within a realistic MS-220T00: Troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Online scenario and support the result with validation evidence.