backup hardware, offsite replication, 553
backups. See also recovery
frequency and scheduling, 525
media rotation, 525–527
online methods, 522–523
performance demands of, 166
system design and, 100–101
testing, 522
types of, 524
verifying, 531–534
Windows Backup for, 527–531
bandwidth
connecting users to network and, 101
Hub Transport server role requirements, 116
network assessment and, 77–78
baselines, ExBPA, 706, 710
Best Practices Analyzer. See ExBPA (Exchange Best Practices Analyzer)
boot.ini configuration file, 122
bottlenecks
disk drives, 740
performance bottlenecks, 741–743
BPA (Best Practices Analyzer). See ExBPA (Exchange Best Practices Analyzer)
brick-level backup, 523
b-tree structure, Exchange databases, 522