Summary:
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5: Planning, Design, and Implementation describes the best practices used during the planning, design, and implementation phases of projects to deploy Microsoft Exchange Server. It incorporates the author's general expertise gained from 16 years working with corporate messaging systems around the world. The lessons learned from over 350 corporate-level engagements involving more than 3 million Exchange seats are documented and explained. The new functionality of Exchange V5.5 is covered, but the real value lies in the pragmatic and practical attitude taken to solving the problems posed by large-scale implementations of any messaging system. This book shows system designers, implementation teams, and e-mail administrators what Exchange V5.5 is capable of and how to facilitate successful deployment.

• Covers Exchange 5.5 SP1 and advanced security and message journaling
  
• Describes best practice used during the planning, design, and implementation phases of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server
  
• Foreword by Elaine K. Sharp, Worldwide Messaging Server Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, March 1992 to October 1996

Table of Contents:
Foreword be Elaine K. Sharp ..... xi
Preface ..... xv
Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server ..... 1
Chapter 2: Exchange Clients ..... 49
Chapter 3: Establishing the Infrastructure for Exchange ..... 115
Chapter 4: Selecting Hardware for Exchange ..... 179
Chapter 5: The Joy of Managing Exchange ..... 243
Chapter 6: Managing Exchange Users ..... 379
Chapter 7: Connecting Exchange ..... 463
Chapter 8: The Microsoft Exchange Directory Service ..... 567
Chapter 9: Conducting a Pilot for Exchange ..... 635
Chapter 10: Migrating from Other Messaging Systems ..... 647
Chapter 11: Keeping Your Exchange Server Healthy ..... 687
Chapter 12: The Exchange Event Service ..... 729
Chapter 13: Bringing It All Together - How to Proceed ..... 743
Chapter 14: Acronyms ..... 749
Chapter 15: Useful Points of Reference ..... 751
Index ..... 755