1.5 Who should read this book

Exchange deployment planners, implementers, and administrators: Individuals responsible for planning, deployment, and operations activities for Microsoft Exchange Server within small, medium, and large enterprise corporate environments. These individuals have a foundational knowledge of Windows Server and Exchange Server, but are seeking to augment this with Exchange Server–specific detail pertaining to disaster recovery and high availability. Due to the high visibility of disaster recovery and high availability within the Exchange environment, this market segment is extremely thirsty for this information.

Consultants, VARs, and integrators: Channel and services-oriented organizations that specialize in Exchange Server deployments and that provide Exchange disaster recovery services for corporate customers. These organizations are seeking reference material on this topic to provide expertise for their systems engineering and consulting teams in order to differentiate their services from competitors.

Press, analysts, and educational and industry research organizations: Individuals or organizations conducting research or analysis focus on this subject matter, in particular, university-based computer science and management information systems courses dealing with disaster-recovery and high availability strategies and techniques.