This guide delivers procedures and best practices for system administrators to create and maintain a secure environment on servers running Microsoft Exchange 2000 with a focus on two specific server roles: Microsoft Outlook® Web Access (OWA) front end servers and back-end servers. This guide was created as a supplement to Security Operations Guide for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server.

Provides techniques and methods to design, deploy and mange an Exchange Server operation. Describes exchange " best practices" developed by author and his colleagues at Compaq.

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Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2003 provides a complete update of Cochran's Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000, and complements Tony Redmond's new book, the best-selling Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. This book includes many of the same high-availability topics as the first edition but also expands the coverage of storage technology, server technology, management, and security. The book meets the needs of an Exchange administrator or system implementer who is striving to maintain a production Exchange environment that delivers superior service levels, high availability, manageability and scalability with the lowest cost of ownership.·Gives "lessons learned" and other best practices from organizations that have successfully deployed Exchange·Includes material on the forthcoming release of Exchange 2003·Offers advice from one of the most experienced storage practitioners

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Operations is designed to provide the best information on how to manage Exchange in a day-to-day environment. An operations team needs to perform a wide variety of procedures, including server monitoring, backup, verification of scheduled events, protection against attack, and user support. This guide includes instructions for those procedures along with steps for dealing with unresolved issues in a timely manner. Exchange 2000 Server Operations draws from the knowledge and best practice guidelines from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), Microsoft's Internal Technical Support Group, and the Exchange Development Team.

Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000 is the definitive book on how to design and maintain extremely reliable and adaptive Exchange Server messaging systems that rarely crash and that preserve valuable data and services in spite of technical disruptions. E-mail systems are now a primary means of communication for organizations, which can afford e-mail down-time no more than they can afford to be without phones. Further, messaging systems increasingly are supporting vital applications in addition to e-mail, such as workflow and knowledge management, making the data they store both voluminous and incredibly valuable. Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000 teaches system designers, administrators and developers the strategies, tools, and best practices they'll need to plan and implement highly-available systems on Exchange 2000 and on earlier versions of Exchange. The book explains Exchange back-up and disaster recovery techniques, Windows clustering technologies for Exchange systems, and security planning to resist messaging-based attacks. Written by Jerry Cochran, an authority on large-scale Exchange systems, Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000 helps readers create Exchange systems upon which they can build large and growing organizations. - Unique book on a crucial Exchange topic - Part of Digital Press's Exchange Server Cluster - Author is Compaq's expert on high-end Exchange systems

Computer viruses and spam messages cost businesses and consumers billions of dollars every year. This book delivers the critical information that administrators, security architects, and messaging designers who work with Microsoft Exchange need to know to combat email viruses and spam. Written with assistance from the Microsoft Exchange team, it delivers critical information organizations of all sizes should know and practice. The book includes information not found in books about Exchange administration or Microsoft Windows. security and covers client-server, server-Internet, and server-client security.