Exam Essentials


Know the features and limitations of Exchange Server 2003. Remember that the two different versions of Exchange Server 2003 have very different capabilities and limitations. Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition is limited to one storage group plus the recovery storage group with a limit of two databases (16 GB maximum in size ) in that storage group. Clustering is not supported in Standard Edition, although a front-end/back-end configuration is. Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition allows four regular storage groups plus the recovery storage group on each server. Each storage group can have up to five databases of unlimited size (limited only by hardware configuration). The Enterprise Edition does provide support for clustering, the X.400 connector and front-end/back-end configurations.

Know the available migration paths to Exchange Server 2003. As with most things, the migration paths to Exchange Server 2003 have changed from those in Exchange 2000 Server. Keep in mind these available migration paths using the Exchange Migration Wizard: Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, GroupWise 4. x , GroupWise 5. x , Internet Directory LDAP via ADSI, and Internet IMAP4 mail.

Don ‚ t forget about X.500. As you will see the more you work with Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003, everything in Active Directory is based on the X.500 standard. If you can ‚ t already break down a distinguished name into its component parts by looking at it, you should look again at what makes up X.500.

RPC is key. In previous versions of Exchange, message transport between local Exchange servers occurred via RPC. Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 use SMTP for local message transport but still provide RPC for backward compatibility with Exchange 5.5 servers. Of course, the Outlook client still uses RPCs to interact with the Exchange servers. Keep an open eye later in the book, in Chapter 7, when we discuss the new RPC over HTTP feature of Exchange Server 2003 and Office Outlook 2003.




MCSA[s]MCSE
MCSA[s]MCSE
ISBN: 735621527
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 160

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