Appendix A: Supplemental Resources

A.1 Microsoft-provided information on Exchange Server

For information about Microsoft Exchange Server, see www.microsoft.com/ exchange. Additionally, the following technical papers, resource kits, and Microsoft Knowledge Base articles provide valuable information regarding disaster-recovery concepts and processes.

Web sites

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Technical Library

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/library 

Exchange Server 2003 Tools and Updates

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/updates 

Exchange Newsgroups

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/community/newsgroups/default.asp  

Exchange Server 2003 books

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/books.asp  

Technical papers

Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Clusters

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6271 

Storage Solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1715 

Best Practice Active Directory Design for Exchange 2000

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=17837 

Best Practice Active Directory Design for Managing Windows Networks

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=18348  

Design Considerations for Delegation of Administration in Active Directory

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=18349 

Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Clusters

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14578 

Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=18350 

Migrating Mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange Server Version 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Server

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=18351 

Monitoring Exchange 2000 with Microsoft Operations Manager 2000

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=18177  

Tools

Exchange Server 2003 Tools and Updates

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/updates 

Exchange Stress and Performance Tool (ESP)—Build 5531.0

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1709 

Exchange 2000 Capacity Planning and Topology Calculator

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1716 

Load Simulator in the Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1710  

Resource kits

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6543 

Windows 2000 Resource Kit

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6545 

Exchange Server 2003 Software Development Kit

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/exchanchor
/htms/msexchsvr_e2k3_sdk.asp 

MAPI API Software Development Kit

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/exchanchor
/htms/msexchsvr_mapi_sdk.asp  

Microsoft Knowledge Base articles

The following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles are available on the Web at http://support.microsoft.com.

Exchange 2000 Server Top 50 “Hot Issue” Articles

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=%2fsupport%2fexch2000%2fe2k_1002hottopics.asp

Exchange Step-by-Step and How-to Articles

 http://support.microsoft.com/
default.aspx?scid=fh;ENUS;exch2k#faq558 

Exchange 2000 Events and Errors Search

 www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/
technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/
support/EE_exchange2k.asp 

Exchange Developer Center

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/default.asp 

266096, “XGEN: Exchange 2000 Requires /3GB Switch with More Than 1 Gigabyte of Physical RAM”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=266096  

266768, “XSTR: How to Modify the Store Database Maximum Cache Size”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=266768 

272314, “XADM: Preparing a Mixed Mode Organization for Conversion to Native Mode”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272314 

305145, “How to: Remove the IFS Mapping for Drive M in Exchange 2000 Server”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305145 

311898, “XADM: Hot Split Snapshot Backups of Exchange”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311898 

315407, “XADM The ‘HeapDeCommitFreeBlockThreshold’ Registry Key”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315407 

810371, “XADM: Using the /Userva Switch on Windows 2003 Server-Based Exchange Servers”

 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810371 

For the latest information about Exchange, see the following Web pages:

Exchange Server 2003 Technical Library

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/library  

Exchange Server 2003 Tools and Updates

 www.microsoft.com/exchange/updates 

Exchange Technical White Papers

 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=10687