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Written for experienced Windows NT administrators, this guide shows how to design and deploy the Exchange 2000 Server system on an enterprise-wide network, and troubleshoot at the workstation level. The twelve chapters cover active directory integration, security applications, customizing address book templates, client access, upgrading from previous versions, instant messaging, application service providers, backup and recovery, and clustering.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


C.A. Murff MCSE, MCT, CTT, CNA
Who should read this book? Anyone looking for clear, relevant answers on how to best utilize their existing Exchange 2000 environment.


Book Description
Configuring Exchange 2000 Server will show you the potential of Exchange 2000 Server and provide you with all necessary details to design and deploy the architecture on an enterprise-wide network and to configure and troubleshoot at the workstation level.


About the Author
Liz Mason (MCSE, MCT, CTT) is founder and CEO of MicroStaff Information Technology (microstaffit.com), a consulting and training firm specializing in Microsoft BackOffice services. Liz has not strayed far from the server room in the past 18 years: She worked for NCR Corporation, starting in 1984, where she did development on MailReady, a C/UNIX messaging product. At NCR, she performed a variety of technical functions, from developing and maintaining NCR¡¯s UNIX SVRV.4 operating system, utilities, and applications, to international support for LAN/WAN Communications. When Microsoft introduced Windows NT, NCR assigned a team to the BackOffice products, and Liz was given EMS/Exchange. She has worked closely with the Exchange performance team at Microsoft for nearly two years on understanding server scalability and performance issues. In 1995, Liz founded MicroStaff, a Microsoft Solution Provider and Certified Technical Education Center. From her first project in Exchange migration at Shell Oil, to supporting and training the military, various government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies, Liz has continued to take on roles of support analyst, trainer, author, administrator, and consultant for Exchange and clustering. Liz was co-author for Sam¡¯s Exchange Administrator Survival Guide (Exchange 4.0). She has also developed three courses on Clustering for Windows NT utilizing Exchange and SQL, two administrator courses on Exchange 5.0 and 5.5, as well end-user manuals for Microsoft Outlook. She, and the team at MicroStaff, has focused on supporting and educating their clients on Exchange, Clustering, Windows NT/2000, IIS, SMS, and Disaster Recovery.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Configuring Exchange Server 2000 is an intermediate to advanced book for both administrators and developers who are actively using Exchange 4.0/5.0/5.5/2000 products. The authors are IT professionals that are actively implementing Exchange and Windows 2000.

Each chapter communicates the essential theory and methodology required. First this book reviews the essentials of Active Directory and Security that you must understand to implement Exchange 2000. Basic methodology and the improvements in administering Exchange 2000 are covered. The Client chapter covers setting up VPNs, architecting physical local and remote access for these clients. Outlook, OWA, POP3, LDAP and LDAP clients are detailed on how you will implement them today. You'll find a great advanced section on how to create an Outlook install package and create a group policy to install it.

You can depend on the Deploying Exchange 2000 chapter to help you successfully move to Exchange 2000 - whether a new install or a migration. Step by step scenarios will assist you. Next, how to protect your Exchange server from hackers, attacks, and spamming contains insight into which components of Exchange are vulnerable.

Configuring Exchange Server 2000 is one of the first books to detail Conference Server, Instant Messaging and Chat. It will get you started on planning, installing, configuring, and even troubleshooting. What book would be complete with Backup/Restore, ASP, and Clustering? Well plenty of them, but not this book. The introduction of the multiple stores will require you to re-think your configuration and possibly backup strategy. Make sure you read this chapter to understand how to restore individual stores.

The chapter on designing, installing, and configuring Exchange Server 2000 for ASP's contains details and tips that are first in an Exchange 2000 book. Next, Clustering Exchange 2000 is a treat. Configuring Exchange Server 2000 details step by step how to install Windows 2000 clustering and then Exchange Server 2000 clustering.

Finally, the Troubleshooting chapter contains the basic steps to keep and get your Exchange Server up. Here architecture is explained in tandem with troubleshooting steps to make sure you are troubleshooting the correct components. Remember, it is just as important to know what is NOT causing the problem, as is what is.

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