Features of This Book

Each chapter opens with a "Before You Begin" section, which prepares you for completing the chapter. Then the text presents scenarios involving fictitious companies, which are used to illustrate the decisions you will face when designing and deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. The chapters are divided into lessons. Whenever possible, lessons contain activities that give you an opportunity to use the skills being presented or explore the part of the application being described.

The "Review" section at the end of each chapter allows you to test what you have learned in the chapter's lessons.

Appendix A, "Questions and Answers," contains all of the questions asked in each chapter and the corresponding answers.

Notes

Several types of Notes appear throughout the lessons.

• Notes marked Tip contain explanations of possible results or alternative methods.
• Notes marked Important contain information that is essential to completing a task.
• Notes marked Note contain supplemental information.
• Notes marked Caution contain warnings about possible loss of data.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this book.

Notational Conventions

• Characters or commands that you type appear in bold type.
• Italic is used for book titles.
• Names of files and folders appear in Title caps, except when you are to type them directly. Unless otherwise indicated, you can use all lowercase letters when you type a filename in a dialog box or at a command prompt.
• Filename extensions appear in all lowercase.
• Acronyms appear in all uppercase.
• Monospace type represents code samples, examples of screen text, or entries that you might type at a command prompt or in initialization files.
• Square brackets [ ] are used in syntax statements to enclose optional items. For example, [filename ] in command syntax indicates that you can choose to type a filename with the command. Type only the information within the brackets, not the brackets themselves.
• Braces { } are used in syntax statements to enclose required items. Type only the information within the braces, not the braces themselves.
• Angle brackets indicate placeholders for variable information. For example, http://<server name>/Exchange in a uniform resource locator (URL) indicates that you need to type a server name. Type only the information within the brackets, not the brackets themselves.

Keyboard Conventions

• A plus sign (+) between two key names means that you must press those keys at the same time. For example, "Press Alt+Tab" means that you hold down Alt while you press Tab.
• A comma ( , ) between two or more key names means that you must press each of the keys consecutively, not together. For example, "Press Alt, F, X" means that you press and release each key in sequence. "Press Alt+W, L" means that you first press Alt and W at the same time, and then release them and press L.
• You can choose menu commands with the keyboard. Press Alt to activate the menu bar, and then sequentially press the keys that correspond to the highlighted or underlined letter of the menu name and the command name. For some commands, you can also press a key combination listed in the menu.
• You can select or clear check boxes or option buttons in dialog boxes with the keyboard. Press Alt and then press the key that corresponds to the underlined letter of the option name. Or you can press Tab until the option is highlighted, and then press the spacebar to select or clear the check box or option button.
• You can cancel the display of a dialog box by pressing Esc.

Fictitious Name Conventions

The content of this training kit requires the use of fictitious company and domain names in fictitious scenarios. This training kit makes every effort to avoid using domain names that represent live Web sites.