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| Book Reviews |
| Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit
(Microsoft Press) |
| by Mitch Tulloch |
| Resource Kits from Microsoft are pretty essential
stuff for understanding and working with their products. This one is no
different.
The ResKit contains a thousand pages of useful information about
Exchange 2000, organized into five main parts:
- Part 1 Exchange 2000 Project
Planning introduces the new features of Exchange
2000 and how to get started planning for its implementation.
- Part 2 Planning for Exchange 2000 and Active Directory
outlines the Exchange 2000 environment,
Active Directory basics, and how these two interrelate.
- Part 3 Prototyping Exchange 2000 explains how to set up a
test environment and pilot Exchange
2000, and how to get your existing network ready for Exchange.
- Part 4 Basic Deployment Planning deals with administration,
maintenance, backup, virus protection, server sizing, message routing,
backbone tuning, external connectivity--lots of interesting stuff
here.
- Part 5 Advanced Deployment Planning covers chat, instant
messaging, OWA, traffic analysis, and different scenarios and
messaging environments.
In addition there is a final section called Resource Guide which
covers Exchange 2000 architecture, backup
(again), monitoring, maintenance (again), security, optimization,
troubleshooting, and other stuff.
My view is that there is lots of useful material in this book
but that it is organized more poorly than most ResKits published by
Microsoft. There seems to be too much duplication in some places. This is
probably the result of having more than a dozen authors contribute to the
work. But apart from this minor flaw, there's
lots of useful information here and the ResKit is an essential addition to
any Exchange 2000 administrator's
bookshelf.
I give this book  stars
out of five. You can find it on Amazon here.
 P.S. Buy it
soon before the Christmas rush sets in!
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