Description

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 marks the biggest advancement in the history of the Exchange Product group. The completely re-engineered server system will change the face of how IT administrators approach Exchange.

Tony Redmond, one of the world’s most acclaimed Exchange experts, offers insider insight from the very basics of the newly transformed architecture to understanding the nuances of the new and improved Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the two new administrative interfaces—the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and the Exchange Management Shell (EMS).

Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 A decade and counting of Exchange deployments
1.1.1 The way we were
1.1.2 The protocol wars
1.1.3 Ever increasing mobility
1.1.4 Third party products and management
1.1.5 Some interesting projects
1.1.6 The not so good points
1.1.7 Exchange’s connection with the Active Directory
1.1.8 Reviewing predictions made in 1996
1.2 Microsoft’s themes for Exchange 2007
1.2.1 The happy prospect of a migration
1.3 Preparing for Exchange 2007
1.4 Installing Exchange 2007
1.4.1 Modifying and Removing servers
1.4.2 Validating the installation
1.4.3 Third party software
1.5 Server Roles
1.5.1 Services
1.6 Licensing
1.6.1 Version Numbers
1.6.2 32-bit Exchange 2007?
1.7 Support
1.8 Challenges for Exchange 2007
1.9 Into the future
2 Exchange, Windows, and the Active Directory
2.1 Active Directory and Exchange
2.1.1 Domain Designs
2.2 Active Directory Replication
2.2.1 Replication Basics
2.2.2 When Active Directory Replication Happens
2.2.3 Active Directory Naming Contexts
2.2.4 Transforming Domain Controllers into Global Catalogs
2.2.5 USNs and Replication
2.2.6 Urgent replication
2.2.7 Intra- and Inter-Site Replication
2.2.8 High-water mark vector and Up-to-date vector tables
2.2.9 Changes in Active Directory Replication in Windows 003
2.3 Exchange’s Active Directory Topology Service
2.3.1 DSAccess (or ADAccess)
2.3.2 How many Global Catalog servers do I need?
2.3.3 Where are my Global Catalogs
2.4 Recovering Deleted Active Directory Accounts
2.5 Exchange and the Active Directory Schema
2.5.1 Updating the Schema with an Installation
2.5.2 Changing the Schema
2.5.3 Active Directory Custom Attributes for Exchange
2.5.4 Updating the Schema to allow Ambiguous Name Resolution
2.5.5 Exchange-specific permissions
2.5.6 Exchange Property Sets
2.6 Longhorn and Exchange 2007
2.7 The very important LegacyExchangeDN attribute
2.8 Brain Surgery for the Active Directory:ADSIEDIT
2.8.1 Active Directory for Exchange
3 The Basics of Managing Exchange 2007
3.1 Exchange Management Console
3.1.1 The importance of filters
3.1.2 Managing mixed organizations
3.1.3 Running EMC remotely or on a workstation
3.1.4 No more AD Users and Computers
3.1.5 Changing columns
3.1.6 Visual effects
3.2 Why some options have disappeared from EMC
3.2.1 Coping with change
3.3 Changes in the Exchange delegation model
3.4 Customized Recipient Management
3.4.1 Adieu RUS
3.4.2 Recipient types
3.5 Moving users
3.5.1 Moving Mailboxes
3.5.2 Logging mailbox moves
3.6 Using Distribution Groups
3.6.1 Forming groups
3.6.2 Group changes in Exchange 2007
3.6.3 Expanding Distribution Lists
3.6.4 How many objects can I have in a group?
3.6.5 Managing group membership
3.6.6 Protected Groups (and users)
3.7 Using Groups for Permissions
3.7.1 Managing distribution groups from Outlook
3.8 Dynamic Distribution Groups
3.8.1 Changing filters and conditions for dynamic distribution groups
3.8.2 A note on OPATH
3.8.3 A new UI for dynamic groups
3.8.4 Creating New Dynamic Groups
3.8.5 Using Dynamic Distribution Groups
3.9 Mailbox quotas
3.9.1 Setting mailbox quotas
3.10 Email address policies
3.10.1 Mailbox moves and email address policies
3.10.2 Queries that drive email address policies
3.11 Address lists
3.11.1 Upgrading Address Lists to Exchange 2007 format
3.12 User naming conventions
3.13 Server naming conventions
3.14 Moving from the basics
4 The Exchange Management Shell
4.1 EMS: Exchange’s management shell
4.1.1 Working with PowerShell commands
4.1.2 Exchange shell commands
4.1.3 Command Editing
4.1.4 Getting at more information about something
4.1.5 Using common and user-defined variables
4.1.6 Identities
4.1.7 Working in a multi-domain forest
4.1.8 Profiles
4.1.9 PowerShell in batch
4.1.10 Execution policies
4.1.11 Sending email from the shell
4.2 Learning from EMC
4.3 Using EMS to work with mailboxes
4.3.1 Creating a new mailbox with a template
4.3.2 Setting and retrieving mailbox properties
4.3.3 Other ways of interacting with mailboxes
4.3.4 Get-Recipient
4.3.5 Moving mailboxes
4.3.6 Accessing another user’s mailbox
4.3.7 Different commands and different properties
4.3.8 Contacts
4.4 Working with distribution groups
4.4.1 Working with dynamic distribution groups
4.4.2 Advanced group properties
4.5 Delegation through the shell
4.6 Creating efficient filters
4.7 Bulk updates
4.7.1 Creating sets of mailboxes
4.8 Reporting mailbox data
4.8.1 Special properties
4.9 Using the shell for other management tasks
4.10 Command validation
4.11 Working with remote servers
4.12 Working with non-Exchange 2007 servers
4.13 Testing Exchange 2007
4.13.1 Client connections
4.13.2 Mail Flow
4.13.3 Miscellaneous test commands
4.14 PowerShell for Exchange Administrators
5 The Store
5.1 Introducing the Store
5.2 Differences in the Exchange 2007 Store
5.2.1 Are sixty-four bits that important?
5.2.2 Trading memory for I/O