Acknowledgments

The current work is the successor to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Training Kit, which was an extremely successful book project. It received the Excellence Award of the Society for Technical Communication (SCT) in 1998, and I would like to take the opportunity to mention that all of us that were involved in producing this book are very thankful and proud of this high recognition. Very positive feedback also came from numerous readers. Among other things, the depth of technical detail, the accuracy of information, and the practical exercises were generally recognized as outstanding positive features. Yet, there was critical feedback as well. Many readers found the outline of the old Training Kit, especially the repetition of concepts and facts, difficult to handle. This repetition of information was indeed intentional, but I had to learn that this was not an optimal approach to transfer knowledge. In other words, there was plenty of room for improvement. I hope that you will find the new Training Kit crisper, more to the point, less repetitive, and, therefore, easier to read.

The current Training Kit is written for computer specialists that want to gain a high level of professionalism in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Knowledge of earlier versions of Exchange Server is not a prerequisite. This Training Kit is the right source for those who want to become Exchange 2000 Server experts, do their jobs better, go forward in their careers, and advance to new job opportunities. Our Training Kit allows you to thoroughly prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional exam 70-224, "Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server."

I love writing computer books, but I'm a very slow writer. My best score is seven pages per day; often I only get five pages done, and sometimes zero—those are the hard days, when nothing works. It took ages to get this manuscript to the publisher, but a manuscript is not a book. It takes a whole team of highly professional editors and artists and support from many sources to bring a book project to a successful completion. Please let me introduce to you all the people that had an important influence.

Before anybody else, I want to mention and thank Jeff Madden for his support and tremendous help. He was my Acquisition Editor at the time when we settled the project plan. Without him this book would not have come true. I also would like to thank Anne Hamilton, who helped to get the project on schedule during the early stages and who allowed me to have it 100% my way—yes! Later on, Thomas Pohlmann became my Acquisition Editor. That is a funny coincidence because Thomas and I had worked together on a few projects in Munich, Germany, before. So here we were again, this time in Redmond, WA (it's only half-way around the world).

I also want to mention Stuart Stuple for his great support when I needed it the most. He brought me in touch with a brilliant support specialist for Exchange 2000 Server, Jeff Wilkes, who supported the early adopters for Microsoft since the initial stages of Platinum. Jeff gave me answers to many questions that nobody else could answer, and he referred me to Michael Lee, Microsoft's disaster recovery expert, who gave me very deep insights into the disaster recovery concepts of Exchange 2000 Server. I want to point out that Jeff and Michael helped me even though their own workload was enormous during the last weeks before the product shipped.

Now it's high time I introduced to you the actual editorial team working on this Exchange 2000 Server Training Kit. Michael Bolinger, the Project Editor, was my direct communication partner for the past nine months. Michael is a very experienced coordinator. He has been working in technical publishing for the past five years, spending much of his time working on MCSE Training Kits. His latest guess at the number of books he has contributed to constitutes some 60 titles. Michael, I really enjoyed working with you. I'm going to miss the large amounts of e-mail messages from you.

My Technical Editor, Tony Northrup, is likewise an old hand (MCSE and Compaq ASE). Tony has worked as a consultant at some of the largest corporations in the United States. He is the author of Introducing Windows 2000 Server and NT Network Plumbing, co-author of Networking Essentials Unleashed, and he is the Technical Editor for Microsoft Windows 2000 TCIP/IP Protocol and Services Technical Reference and MCSE Training Kit—Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Administration. It's obvious that his work is excellent. He caught me on many inaccuracies and fuzzy statements. It was very impressive to see how persistently Tony worked through 29 chapters with a constant level of highest precision.

The nontechnical editing of the manuscript was also in very good hands. Just give it a try—open this book somewhere in the middle, read a few sentences, and then look at the artwork. You must admit that our editing team did an excellent job. That is the work of Sarah Kimnach Hains, Project Manager, and her team of worker bees Theresa Horton, Copy Editor; Lucia Colella, Page Layout and Art; Mary Beth McDaniel, Page Layout and Art; Joanna Zito, Page Layout; Tara Lynn Murray, Art; Rebecca Merz, Proofchecker; Sarah Campbell, Proofreader. Sarah Kimnach Hains is responsible for managing publications and online projects at nSight, Inc., of Cambridge, MA. She is one of the "Resident Experts" at nSight concerning the production of Microsoft books, such as Pocket Consultants, Training Kits, and Technical References. She and her team enjoy the challenge of producing complicated books while maintaining the highest standard of quality.

Nobody can write a book without support from family, business partners, and friends. Perhaps this is the reason many authors dedicate their work to their wives, husbands, or other family members. The constant support of my wife, Jean (my wonderful Buggy-Darling), is one basis of my success in business. Jean, Scott, Kelly, I love you with all my heart. Another important person in my life is my business partner, Fergus Strachan. Book writing is a full-time job that does not leave much room to manage a company. Fergus understood, silently gave in, and managed our company in London, England, alone, for more than nine months while I followed my writing ambitions. In addition to that, he took an active part in compiling the Glossary for me. Thanks for everything, Ferg. I owe you more than a single malt. And there's one more person who I would like to mention—my colleague Carl John. He spent many extra hours setting up test environments for me so that I would not lose precious time from my writing.

It's the great help of so many people that make me feel very special. I can't mention all of them. Personal friends at IBM/Lotus, Novell, Microsoft, many self-employed colleagues, and even customers of ours were eager to assist. I hope that I was able to pass their help further on to you to help you master the challenges of Exchange 2000 Server.

London, 17th of October, 2000

Kay Unkroth

Director Corporate OnSite Ltd.



MCSE Training Kit Exam 70-224(c) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Implementation and Administration
MCSE Training Kit Exam 70-224(c) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Implementation and Administration
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Year: 2001
Pages: 186

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