Microsoft exchange 2000 server

Monitoring and Managing Microsoft" Exchange 2000 Server presents best practices and innovative everyday techniques for running Exchange Server for Windows 2000.

This authoritative book teaches IT professionals responsible for Exchange messaging systems how to efficiently manage the program's many and complex system capabilities and featuTes. Once you've designed and implemented a messaging system, the bulk of the day-to-day work involves monitoring to ensure an optimum traffic flow, accomplished by continuously reviewing and fine-tuning dozens of system specifications and components. Monitoring and Managing Microsoft" Exchange 2000 Server gives readers proven and innovative techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of allsizeand types built on the Exchange 2000 Server.

Based on the author's own 20 years of messaging system experience and the collective experience of Compaq, the leading implementer of Exchange Server systems, this book will be an essential resource for Exchange administrators and designers.

o Monitoring and Managing MicrosoftO Exchange 2000 Server is part of Digital Press's Exchange Server Cluster-it complements Tony Redmond's Microsoft Exchange Serverfor WindoWS 2000

o This is a crucial book for "everyday administrators"

o Mike Daugherty is one of Compaq's experts on implementing and managing Exchange Server

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1.1 Exchange 2000 design goals
• 1.2 Comparing Exchange 2000 and Exchange 5.5
• 1.3 Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 topologies
• Preparing to Manage Exchange 2000
• 2.1 Transferring responsibility to the operations team
• 2.2 Roles and responsibilities
• 2.3 Delegating administrative responsibility
• 2.4 Metrics and reporting
• Management and Monitoring Tools
• 3.1 Microsoft Management Console
• 3.2 System Manager
• 3.3 Active Directory Users and Computers
• 3.4 Performance console
• 3.5 Event Viewer
• 3.6 Exchange Administration Delegation wizard
• 3.7 ESEUTIL
• 3.8 Message Tracking Center
• 3.9 RPC Ping utility
• 3.10 Microsoft Exchange Server support utilities
• 3.11 Third-party tools
• Managing the Exchange Organization Topology
• 4.1 Understanding the Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 hierarchy
• 4.2 Namespace and name resolution
• 4.3 Active Directory replication
• 4.4 Managing a mixed environment using the
• Active Directory connector
• Managing Exchange Servers
• 5.1 Configuring Outlook Web Access
• 5.2 Managing Exchange services
• 5.3 Managing the Information Store
• Managing E-Mail Connectivity
• 6.1 Core SMTP transport
• 6.2 Message flow
• 6.3 Connecting routing groups
• 6.4 Mixed Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 environments
• 6.5 Setting global SMTP parameters
• 6.6 Setting per-domain SMTP parameters
• 6.7 Creating an SMTP virtual server
• 6.8 Modifying SMTP virtual server parameters
• 6.9 Creating a Routing Group Connector
• 6.10 Creating an SMTP Connector
• 6.11 Viewing link status
• 6.12 Managing queues and messages in queues
• 6.13 Tracking messages
• Managing Recipients
• 7.1 Managing mailbox-enabled users
• 7.2 Managing mail-enabled contacts
• 7.3 Managing mail-enabled groups
• 7.4 Periodic reviews
• Addresses, Address Lists_, and Offline Address Lists
• 8.1 Managing recipient policies
• 8.2 Address lists
• 8.3 Managing details templates
• 8.4 Viewing address templates
• 8.5 Recipient update services
• 8.6 Offline address lists
• Backup and Recovery Operations
• 9.1 Minimizing risk
• 9.2 Preparing for disaster
• 9.3 Scheduling Exchange Information Store backups
• 9.4 Scheduling configuration data backups
• 9.5 Performing an unscheduled backup
• 9.6 Verifying backup success
• 9.7 Modifying scheduled backups
• 9.8 Deleting scheduled backups
• 9.9 Creating an Emergency Repair Disk
• 9.10 Recovering an Information Store
• 9.11 Recovering a single mailbox or message
• 9.12 Recovering from a disaster
• Monitoring Exchange
• Monororing policies
• 10.2 Monitoring messaging system health
• 10.3 Creating monitoring thresholds using the Monitoring tab
• 10.4 Viewing monitor status
• 10.5 Automatic notification
• 10.6 Performance monitor
• 10.7 Monitoring messaging system health using third-party tools
• 10.8 Trend monitoring and usage analysis
• 10.9 Monitoring for SLA compliance
• 10. 10 Nondelivery monitoring
• 10.11 Monitoring Exchange backups
• 10. 12 Antivirus monitoring
• 10. 13 Network monitoring
• 10. 14 Using event logs
• Index