Chapter 1 - Introduction to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server

Chapter 1

About This Chapter

The boom of the Internet has brought messaging technologies into every home and onto every desk. Everyone with Internet access has e-mail, including the modern businessperson, who needs access to information anytime and anywhere. Hardware and software vendors are advancing communications technologies at a breakneck pace to extend their business opportunities wherever possible. Not every approach is successful and sometimes even established technologies fade away, such as X.400-based messaging systems. The challenge is to build an infrastructure that can cope with the current requirements as well as the demands of the future. The future may be uncertain, but it is definite that e-mail, increasingly, will carry large amounts of data, such as multimedia elements. Services for data and videoconferencing will spread, which will measurably increase the demand for a high-performance communications network. Internet-based technologies have proven themselves to be the right tools for messaging on any scale.

Whether you intend to establish your organization’s first messaging environment or modernize an existing infrastructure, your project will directly affect a considerable number of users, if not all employees in your company. Technical and human factors determine the success of your undertaking. Do not forget to take the people into consideration. Find out what their expectations and worries are and tell them how you intend to address important issues with the new environment. The better your users understand the reasons for and benefits of using Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, the more likely they will be willing to adapt to the changes. Even the most powerful messaging platform is useless if users don’t integrate it into their daily work.

This chapter reviews important technical features of Exchange 2000 Server. Lesson 1 analyzes messaging, workgroup, and real-time communication services and introduces available server editions. Lesson 2 discusses general business benefits of Exchange 2000 Server and demonstrates how to calculate this platform’s potential for improvement compared to other messaging systems.

Before You Begin

To complete this chapter, you must

  • Have practical experiences in administering Microsoft Windows NT- or Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer networks that span local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs)
  • Be familiar with the general concepts of messaging and workgroup computing, including the management of mailboxes, public folders, connectivity components, and server-based address lists



MCSE Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Design and Deployment Training Kit(c) Exam 70-225
MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-225): Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Design and Deployment (Pro-Certification)
ISBN: 0735612579
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 89

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