Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit (IT-Resource Kits)

Deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot Microsoft(r) Exchange 2000 Server with the product expertise of those who know it best the Exchange 2000 Server product team plus the real-world deployment experience of Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). This RESOURCE KIT provides everything you need to deploy, install, back up and restore, manage security for, troubleshoot, and optimize Exchange 2000 Server. It includes more than 1,000 pages of detailed technical information, plus timesaving utilities on CD the ideal combination of content and tools for IT professionals who work with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Get up to speed with all the details you need to know about these topics: Project planning: Discover what's new in Exchange 2000 and build your deployment plan. Planning for Active Directory services: Understand the Active Directory environment, namespace, integration, replication, and deployment strategies. Prototyping and preparing: Find out how to set up an Exchange 2000 test environment and pilot project and prepare for a new deployment or an upgrade of an existing environment.Basic deployment: Learn about administration and maintenance, backup and restore, virus protection, server availability and sizing, message routing, backbone configuration and tuning, and connecting to other systems. Advanced deployment: Understand Chat and Instant Messaging services, replication and directory synchronization, corporate and branch office scenarios, hosted and security-sensitive environments, Microsoft Outlook(r) Web Access, and more. Security strategies: Learn how to integrate Microsoft Windows(r) 2000 and Exchange 2000 security features to help protect your messaging system. Optimizing and maintaining: Find out how to tune and optimize Exchange and help prevent disasters and system downtime by preparing and implementing backup strategies.

Microsoft's Resource Kits aren't just expensive boxed sets that you buy anymore for their utility-packed CD-ROMs. Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit, typical of the recent additions to the line, backs up its valuable collection of administration utilities with excellent technical advice, official wisdom, and precise writing. If you know enough about Exchange 2000 Server to recognize the problems that you're going to face in deploying it, this kit will give you the knowledge and tools that you need. It's worth noting that this product has to do primarily with deployment and configuration. Everyday operation of Exchange 2000 Server isn't nearly as difficult as getting the system set up correctly in the first place. The utilities and documentation here help you to get the messaging system off the ground properly.

The authors--who are members of the development team and Microsoft's consulting arm--explain the options that are available to the administrator at each point, and when each one is appropriate. But they leave up to you the decision about the path to take. This approach, when combined with the high-quality documentation on the software utilities that ship with this product, is well suited to technically accomplished readers. For concise treatment of Exchange 2000 Server administration issues, especially those that pop up after implementation time, consider Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, particularly its deployment and initial configuration. Fitting the server into an Active Directory system (both existing and built from scratch); some utilities and text address the problem of dealing with multiple AD forests. Administration goals, including virus control, security, and efficient routing.