Product Description: With this comprehensive guide, you’ll find out how to effectively install, configure, and manage Microsoft’s powerful messaging and collaboration server, Exchange Server 2007. From reducing the amount of spam your company receives to ensuring you have the right disaster recovery strategy, authors Barry Gerber and Jim McBee share their extensive real-world experience as they walk you step-by-step through each process. You’ll learn the essential techniques for planning and design, deployment, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Very Good All in One Book I have been an messaging engineer for four years now and in that time I have been through my fair share of Exchange books covering Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, and Exchange 2007. I can easily say that Jim McBee's book here is one of the best books you can buy on the subject.
Material is covered well, going over all the new features in Exchange 2007, best practices, and practical advice to help you deploy Exchange 2007 and keep it running once it's deployed. Important topics like security, Outlook integration, and Windows Mobile support is covered as well. Best of all this book is full of handy powershell scripts to help you learn your way around the new exchange management shell.
No matter what your need, be it studying for the MCITP exam, deploying Exchange 2007 in your organization, or just needing a handy tome of great Exchange information to refer to on a daily basis you truly can not go wrong with this book. It is highly recommended!
Not worth it unfortunately... I only read the first 1/3 of this book before I got involved in an Exchange 2003 to 2007 transition. Some of what I read was applicable, however doing further research on the topic on TechNet I was able to find practically the same information for free, and often, in greater depth than this book offers.
The book provides very little insight into how Exchange actually works. The parts on administering E2007 are sparse and not explained very well, and again, you can find all of this on TechNet for free.
Compared to Mastering Windows Server 2003 this book is a real letdown. Granted, I've only read the first 1/3, but flipping through the rest and looking for the occasional answer to a question I've run into during the transition I've only been left wanting.
I wouldn't buy it again and I certainly don't recommend it. You certainly won't master anything with this book.
McBee and Gerber wrote a good book. Let me start by saying that while it was a good book, I felt it to be a bit thinner than the normal McBee book. I own a small library of Exchange books, accumulated over 14 years supporting Exchange and other messaging systems, and around 15 years in the IT biz. If there was one Exchange 2007 book that I had to put on my shelf, this (and a book on the usage of Powershell in Exchange 2007) would be it.
Exchange 2007 brings to bear some of the good things which we were familiar with in Exchange 5.5; a separate SMTP engine (IMC in Exchange 5.5, SMTP Service in Exchange 2000/2003, and Hub/Transport role in Exchange 2003), a separate Outlook Web Access server role (now called CAS in Exchange 2007). Some Exchange admins of today don't remember the concepts of these separate roles and Exchange admins with this background need to become familiar.
It's easy to tell that McBee was key in the authoring of this book and uses his great writing skill to further learning the key concepts in the book.
I am a former Microsoft MVP, who participated with the LCS and Exchange MVP teams. I also participate in the Exchange forums of Experts Exchange. As such, it is easy to see when a great book is written. Jim McBee has written yet another winner and a great time saver. This book was definitely worth every minute and is only one of two Exchange books I keep at the office.
Bob
A summary, not for beginners Though I have ten years of IT experience, this book has not yet helped me with my first venture into e-mail server administration. It summarizes topics without providing implementation guidance and real-world tips. Though it was written during the beta cycle, isn't some of the authors' Exchange 2003 hands-on experience applicable to 2007? Perhaps I'm spoiled by Minasi's "Mastering Windows Server". Beginner e-mail administrators may want to look elsewhere.
This book leads to success ... Similar to AJoshi I was asked to migrate a Linux driven active postfix mail server to Exchange 2007. Working since more than a decade strictly in Unix environments I was curious how this would work.. So I went to buy this book and spent a nice weekend reading it. Sure enough I am impressed by the way the authors wrote this book. Clearly understandable bringing it to the real point. Having the book in front of me I easily managed to perform the migration. Today our users really appreciate the service they get from MS Exchange .... There is no way around this book if you are a newbie in the Exchange area !
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