Introducing Exchange 2000 - Softcover

Woodcock, JoAnne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735609608 ISBN 13: 9780735609600

Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

Your pre-release guide to evaluating and planning your deployment of Exchange 2000 Server, beta release Stay ahead of the curve with this official first look inside Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, a comprehensive messaging platform that enables the widest possible range of solutions for the free exchange of e-mail, voice mail, streaming video, documents, and Web content, plus video conferencing, instant messaging, and chat sessions. This exclusive Microsoft preview delivers an authoritative technical overview of the fundamental design improvements in Exchange 2000 Server that enhance scalability, manageability, and integration. You get coveted pre-release information to aid in evaluation and planning-advance insights that can help expedite rollout and reduce your total cost of ownership. • Understand how Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved to become the most reliable, secure messaging platform • Discover enhanced scalability features such as clustering and integration with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Active Directory services • See how Exchange 2000 Server operates in the enterprise to reduce your total cost of ownership • Explore features that simplify Exchange 2000 Server installation, rollout, and administration, such as the Microsoft Management Console • Review improvements in routing, workgroup collaboration, and real-time and wireless messaging that can enhance workplace productivity

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Review

Microsoft seems to be indicating that Outlook will be more tightly integrated into future editions of Windows, and it will become more of an all-purpose messaging and scheduling dashboard than a mere mail application. That makes knowledge of Exchange Server, of the kind presented in Introducing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, all the more valuable. Like other books in the Introducing series, this one provides a fairly high-level overview of its eponymous technology. The emphasis is on getting technicians and managers thinking in the right direction before they deploy Exchange Server 2000, instead of providing them with much specific how-to material.

Appropriately, there's lots of emphasis on the latest version of Exchange Server in comparison to its forebears. Changes in terminology are documented, and the operation of new features is explained with the assistance of copious hierarchy charts and conceptual diagrams. Some of the most informative and readable coverage in this book has to do with Exchange Server's relationship with the Active Directory features in Windows 2000, but information about the Web Store concept and alternative strategies for deploying the server and its clients also merit close study. Take a look at this one if you're thinking about deploying Exchange Server 2000 and want to know what to expect. --David Wall, amazon.com

Topics covered: A high-level look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and its clients as a way to provide intra- and inter-organisational messaging solutions. Hardware and software requirements are documented, along with aspects of the software's architecture (including its integration with Active Directory, its message-routing mechanisms, its Web Store features, and its scalability features). A section on implementation strategies for organisations of various sizes also appears.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735609608
• ISBN 13: 9780735609600
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300