Best
Practices for Evaluating and Using Hosted Exchange 2000 Services

How do you go about evaluating ASPs to determine their service
quality? What are the key metrics for a service level agreement?
We'll discuss how to evaluate whether outsourced ASP messaging
and collaboration services may be appropriate for your
organization by looking at the economics and service delivery
elements that play a role in such a decision. Service Level
Agreements and reporting/tracking will be discussed as a key
element to moving ahead to leverage the new ASP services.
Creating Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2000
This article describes the steps you need to take to create a
Resource Mailbox in Exchange 2000, it also explains what your
users need to do in order to utilize the Resource Mailbox
correctly. Source: MSExchange.org
Changing the Display Order in the Exchange 2000
Address List
In this article we will look at how we can modify the DisplayName
field in Active Directory to use the LastName, FirstName format,
this will then ensure that the Address Lists used by your users
will be sorted by LastName. Source: MSExchange.org
Collaboration
Data Objects (CDO) 1.21 Redistribution
Get
the files you need to redistribute CDO with your applications.
Establishing
Microsoft Exchange Internet Services

Internet Standards are an important aspect of today's e-mail
systems. This session gives an overview of the IMAP and POP mail
protocols, contrasting their features, explaining how they are
implemented in Exchange Server, and how the actual protocol
commands look on the wire. The session also demonstrates how to
set up Microsoft Exchange Server's POP3, IMAP4, NNTP, LDAP and
SMTP services to work with various popular Internet messaging
clients. In addition to server configuration, common client
configuration options for Outlook Express are covered. Source:
Microsoft.com
Exchange
2000 Recipient Management
Thanks
to new features and integration with Microsoft Windows©
Active Directory© service, managing recipients in Exchange 2000
Server is significantly different from managing recipients in
previous versions of Exchange. Find out how.
Exchange
2000 Server Message Routing White Paper
Use
this resource to explore how message transport and routing work,
and to learn how to design, deploy, and link routing groups in
Exchange 2000.
Exchange
2000 Conferencing Server and H.323 White Paper
Learn
about Internet Protocol (IP) Multicast conferencing, traditional
H.323 conferencing, and how Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server
offers videoconferencing implementation.
Exchange
2000 Server Lab Exercises
Work
through common deployment and administration scenarios for
Exchange 2000 Server.
Exchange 2000's Conferencing Service
Many third-party vendors offer expensive and complicated conferencing software. Check out the built-in, easy-to-use conferencing feature that Exchange 2000 provides. Source: Windows & .NET Magazine
(March 2000)
Exchange 2000 Server and Active Directory
Exchange 2000 Server's integration with Win2K and AD gives you much to think about. Here's the background you need to begin your deployment. Source; Windows 2000 Magazine (Dec 1999)
Exchange 2000 and SMTP
Exchange 2000's extension on Win2K's basic SMTP service provides tight integration between the messaging server and the OS. Source; Windows 2000 Magazine (March 2000)
Exchange
Application Downloads
Visit
the Microsoft TechNet site and explore custom Exchange
applications submitted by Exchange developers.
Exchange
Chat Features/IRCX White Paper
Read an overview of Internet Relay Chat Extension (IRCX), and the
expanded capabilities it brings to users, administrators,
channels, and the server.
Forward
E-mail to Other Domains
Forward incoming Exchange messages to addresses on other e-mail
systems and allocate disk space on Exchange 2000 Server
transaction logs. Source: .NET Magazine (June 2002)
Integrating
Microsoft Site Server Search with Microsoft Exchange
Discover how Site Server 3.0 can make Exchange Server easier to use in this
white paper on the Microsoft Site Server site.
Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Internals: Permissions Guide
This
white paper describes the minimum permissions required for
installation and management of Exchange 2000 Server.
Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Front-End Server and SMTP Gateway Hardware
Scalability Guide White Paper
Check out this hardware guide for Exchange 2000 Server front-end servers
and SMTP gateways. The recommendations can help you build a highly
scalable and reliable messaging system, customized to the needs of
your organization.
Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Server Back-End Mailbox Scalability
See how servers processing POP3, IMAP4, and Outlook Web Access
requests perform on Exchange 2000 Server as varying amounts of
load are run against four-processor and eight-processor servers.
Microsoft
Exchange Developer's Kit White Paper
Learn about the new tools included in the refresh of the Exchange
Developer's Kit.
Reporting
for Exchange 2000
Activity-based reporting and analysis allows administrators and
IT managers to understand better how their Exchange system is
being used by their organization. Through collection and
analysis of historical activity data, administrators can
identify message traffic and storage trends, optimize system
design, document service levels and implement charge back or
cost analysis programs. Exchange 2000 provides significant
improvements in the scope of data available to the
administrator, as well as the options for data collection
Streamline
Large-Scale Updates
Manipulate thousands of Exchange 2000 mailbox items globally, and
learn how to identify the fields you want to change.
Source: .NET Magazine (June 2002)
Using a Public Folder as a Mailbox
In this article we will look at how to use a Public Folder in
Exchange 2000 to collect mail that can then be accessed by
multiple users, this could be used for a Sales Department or
Customer Service mailbox for example. Source: MSExchange.org
Using Public Folders to Hold Company Contacts
This article describes how you can setup a Public Folder in
Exchange 2000 to hold company contacts, it also explains how to
set the permissions on the folder and how to allow users to access
the folder like an address book. Source: MSExchange.org |