N

naming conventions

alias names, 85–86

components, 88–90

display names, 83–85

mail-enabled groups, 86–88

organizations, 79

recipient mailboxes, 80–83

servers, 80–81

NAS (network attached storage), 499

navigation tree, EMC, 211–212

needs assessment

categories of, 73

organization geographic profile, 76

organization network assessment, 77–78

questions to ask, 74–75

user needs, 73–75

.NET Framework, 121

network

assessing, 77–78

connecting users to, 101

firewall and audit protection for, 674

onsite replication, 553

planning configuration of, 78–79

redundancy, 511

reliability, 78

network attached storage (NAS), 499

network counters, 740–741

network interface cards (NICs), 511

network load balancing

high availability and, 164

implementing, 506–510

improving availability of server roles, 505

overview of, 504

third party solutions, 506

Network Load Balancing (NLB), 506, 513

Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), 486

network protocols, 77

network topologies

network assessment and, 77

preparing with command-line installer, 130–131

New Address List Wizard, 406

New Distribution Group Wizard, 374

New Mail Contact Wizard, 388

New Managed Content Settings Wizard, 427

New Managed Custom Folder Wizard, 428–431

New Managed Folder Mailbox Policy Wizard, 431–432

New Security Policy, 679

New Transport Rule Wizard, 450–453, 629

New-Mailbox cmdlet, 333

New-MailboxDatabase cmdlet, 180–182

New-testCasConnectivityUser.ps1 script, 168

NIC teaming, 511

NICs (network interface cards), 511

NLB (Network Load Balancing), 506, 513

NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol), 486

nouns

list of common EMS cmdlet nouns, 236

in PowerShell and EMS syntax, 235

ntbackup.exe (Windows backup)

backing up Exchange with, 527–531

recovering Exchange database, 538–543

NTFS

file system recommendations, 39

required by Exchange Server, 123