Support a Seamless Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Messaging Environment
Get started using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 quickly with help from this easy-to-follow resource. Using screenshots and step-by-step instructions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to set up Exchange Server, migrate from earlier releases, manage recipients, and administer storage. You'll learn how to integrate with Outlook, support mobile users, handle backup and recovery, and implement security measures. The latest monitoring and reporting tools, performance enhancement techniques, and regulatory compliance procedures are also covered.
Install and configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or migrate from earlier versions
Create and manage recipients, mailboxes, and public folders
Administer storage groups and databases
Integrate seamlessly with Outlook 2007
Support remote users with Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere, Outlook Voice Access, and Active Sync
Monitor, administer, and optimize your system using the Exchange Management Console
Back up and recover Exchange databases
Take advantage of the Exchange Management Shell capabilities
Good Beginners Book I thought this book was good beginning guide for Exchange 2007. It was very informative about the new features of Exchange and found myself picking it up and using it in day to day activities. I am sure there are more comprehensive books that go into great depth and detail but remember the title "A Beginners Guide".
Lacks Necessary Background I purchased this book because I am a "new" exchange administrator seting up my first Exchange organization. Mostly this book walks you through the various screens to setup, configure, and manage exchange server. I find this almost useless as the online help files do a good job of telling you exactly the same thing.
As a beginner, what I need and what this book lacks is detail on what the various settings mean, what they do, and what you should and should not put in them. For example, user mailboxes can have multiple email addresses configured for them. Exchange has a hub transport setting called "Accepted Domains". It also has an edge transport "address rewriting" capability. As a beginner, if my internal Active Directory site is internal.us and internal email users are user@internal.us; and my external email address space is external.us, so my external email addresses are user@external.us, do I need to add each user's external.us address to their email address list or do I use address rewriting, or both? This seems like an obvious question that a beginner would need an answer to. I can't find it anywhere in his book.
So if you need a hard copy of each screen in Exchange server, this is the book for you. If you are a beginner and you want to learn how to set up a proper Exchange organization, better look elsewhere.
This isn't a "Beginner's Guide" We have had Exchange 5.5 and now have Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers that have been running for years. We decided to upgrade to Exchange 2007 and this book is like a quick outline of Exchange 2007, you should not use it as your only, or main, source of information on Exchange 2007- it completely ignores things you should be doing, doesn't give any detail on how to do much of what it says to do, and otherwise turned out to be useless during our upgrade process. Sure it's a quick read since there's so many screen shots and so little words, but it's a waste of time- you'd be better off getting a bigger book and reading up on the details, after all that is where all the complications are going to come from. You might get away with this book working if you aren't upgrading and this is the first Exchange server being put into your organization, but how many people are really in that situation?
Good Intro to Exchange 2007 As others have said, this is a fast, easy read. It gives a good overview of Exchange 2007, its major features, a simple easy to understand science of how it works and interacts in the active directory environment as well as some useful tips on things like the dreaded exchange powershell for all you GUI types. :-)
As I'm familiar with some extra features of the Enterprise edition that were not mentioned in the book, it's too bad the author did not include those as well. BUT that's a tiny nitpick.
Overall, this is a good starting point for Exchange 2007.
Excellent guide This is a very well written book and an excellent way for anyone to get introduced to Exchange 2007.
It is easy to understand and the author is very knowledgeable.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about Exchange 2007.
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