Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant - Softcover

Stanek, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735609624 ISBN 13: 9780735609624

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2000

Synopsis

MICROSOFT® EXCHANGE 2000 SERVER ADMINISTRATOR’S POCKET CONSULTANT is the concise, easy-to-use reference you’ll want with you at all times as you support and manage Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server. Ideal at the desk or on the go from server to workstation, this hands-on, fast-answers guide focuses on what you need to do to get the job done. With extensive easy-to-read tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions, it’s the portable, readable guide that will consistently save you time and effort. This hands-on guide provides fast answers to help you:

• Complete fundamental tasks—use administrative tools, understand integration with Windows 2000, manage and troubleshoot mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook® 2000 and Outlook Express, and configure and manage user access privileges
• Work with Active Directory™ services (ADS)—take advantage of powerful new directory services to centrally manage administration and security functions, simplify managing a large installation, and reduce your workload
• Administer and troubleshoot data storage—efficiently manage data and storage groups, manage public folders and Web stores, reliably back up and recover Exchange data, and import and export Exchange data
• Administer servers and groups—manage organizations and messaging connectors, use administration and routing groups, administer virtual servers and routing protocols, maintain and replicate the directory, and monitor Exchange 2000 Server

About this title

Review

The Pocket Consultant series has begun to earn a good name for itself, as an increasing number of system administrators discover that the books are generally of top quality and consistently long on detail. Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant fits in with its mates, providing concise but complete coverage of Microsoft's latest back-end product for workplace collaboration. The goal isn't to teach about Exchange 2000 Server or explain how it fits into an organization's computing infrastructure--instead, the goal is to document the entire server package concisely, enough to jog the memory of an administrator who needs to perform some task or be reminded of how a feature works.

In a typical section, the book takes on the intricacies of the Exchange 2000 Server data stores. After a speedy but accurate introduction to what each store is for and how it works, the book outlines recommendations (several, actually, each suited for an organization of a particular size and with specific performance requirements) for fitting databases onto disks and protecting those disks with RAID schemes. Coverage of the Exchange 2000 Server database infrastructure is detailed similarly: there's background information, for example, about the performance advantages of zeroing out deleted database pages, and steps to follow for scheduling indexing jobs. More information on customizing Outlook--the most popular client for Exchange 2000 Server--with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) would have made this book better, but it is strong as it stands. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, from the administrator's perspective
• The relationship between Exchange 2000 Server and Active Directory
• Management of users and groups
• Management of online and offline address lists
• Database design and upkeep
• Server optimization
• Message routing

About the Author

William R. Stanek has over 20 years of hands-on experience with advanced programming and development. He has written nearly 100 books including: Microsoft Windows Vista Administrator's Pocket Consultant, Windows Server 2008 Inside Out, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition, and Microsoft IIS 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (all from Microsoft Press). He also wrote MCSE Core Exams in a Nutshell and Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0735609624
• ISBN 13: 9780735609624
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408