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Summary: Absolutely the best book for Exchange
Review: 'Managing Exchange Server' is absolutely the best resource for reference, daily tasks, and solutions for the 5.5 Exchange. I bought this book a year ago and it is always on my desk.
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Summary: I should have bought this book FIRST!
Review: As a rookie Administrator, I bought 2 other books before finding this one. The others left me scratching my head, wondering who the authors were addressing.After 2 months (and multiple sessions with the book), I am fully confident that I can resolve m the routine problems that crop up, and by digging a little deeper, find even more answers when needed. Both of our Senior Exchange Administrators (one with over 20 years of network communications experience) have used this book extensively, and they concur with my comments. Often, I am now able to resolve problems before they do. Anything Robichaux writes, I'll buy.
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Summary: I should have bought this book FIRST!
Review: As a rookie Administrator, I bought 2 other books before finding this one. The others left me scratching my head, wondering who the authors were addressing. After 2 months (and multiple sessions with the book), I am fully confident that I can resolve m the routine problems that crop up, and by digging a little deeper, find even more answers when needed. Both of our Senior Exchange Administrators (one with over 20 years of network communications experience) have used this book extensively, and they concur with my comments. Often, I am now able to resolve problems before they do. Anything Robichaux writes, I'll buy.
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Summary: Not much new information for MCSE
Review: As an MCSE I'm always looking for new resources which will help me to better serve clients and learn more about products. I've been looking for a great resource for Exchange for quite some time. After reading reviews of this book I thought I had found the resource I was looking for. Couple the reviews with the great books that O'Reilly puts out and this book seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for me it was too good to be true. After reading the first few chapters I started doing some major skipping ahead and skimming. Alot of the information that I found I had already read on Microsoft's website. If you're new to Exchange this could possibly be the book for you, unfortunately in my case I have to return the book and keep searching.
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Summary: A necessary resource for the Exchange admin
Review: Earlier this year I had to deploy a set of Exchange servers. I am not an MCSE, but I have installed Unix boxes and even hacked sendmail entries, so I figured, how hard should this be? Answer: very. Exchange has a bezillion options and you'll need an almost zen-like mastery of the application to be successful deploying it. I didn't have the time to build this foundation, and relied heavily on this book to explain some of the arcane concepts. "Managing MS Exchange Server" is very well indexed and does a pretty good job of explaining some of the obscure registry entries and security options in the product. It also provide the mental "glue" that I needed to see how my Exchange servers would interact. A few of the registry keys were different as a result of the most recent service packs. This is forgivable given the book's always going to lag the product, and the differences weren't that horrible. If you're tasked with doing any amount of work with Exchange, you really need this book.
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Summary: A necessary resource for the Exchange admin
Review: Earlier this year I had to deploy a set of Exchange servers. I am not an MCSE, but I have installed Unix boxes and even hacked sendmail entries, so I figured, how hard should this be? Answer: very. Exchange has a bezillion options and you'll need an almost zen-like mastery of the application to be successful deploying it. I didn't have the time to build this foundation, and relied heavily on this book to explain some of the arcane concepts. "Managing MS Exchange Server" is very well indexed and does a pretty good job of explaining some of the obscure registry entries and security options in the product. It also provide the mental "glue" that I needed to see how my Exchange servers would interact. A few of the registry keys were different as a result of the most recent service packs. This is forgivable given the book's always going to lag the product, and the differences weren't that horrible. If you're tasked with doing any amount of work with Exchange, you really need this book.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I inherited an Exchange 5.5 server from a previous admin about 2 years ago. I had very limited knowledge of Exchange prior to that. This book gave me an excellent understanding of Exchange. Robichaux's writing style makes this book very readable. Paul, please come out with the Exchange 2000 book!
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Summary: If I were stranded on a desert island...
Review: If I had to choose but two MS Exchange books for my arsenal, this would absolutely be one of them. The other would have to be Barry Gerber's "Mastering Exchange Server 5.5" Paul Robichaux has done an EXCELLENT job of filling in what few gaps Barry Gerber left in his book. Where Gerber provides an excellent guide to setting up and getting to know Exchange, Robichaux takes you deeper into more "advanced" administrative issues such as disaster recovery, security, enabling Exchange for remote users, etc. If you manage an Exchange server or servers for your orginzation, this book is indispensible. Hats off to the author!
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Summary: If I were stranded on a desert island...
Review: If I had to choose but two MS Exchange books for my arsenal, this would absolutely be one of them. The other would have to be Barry Gerber's "Mastering Exchange Server 5.5" Paul Robichaux has done an EXCELLENT job of filling in what few gaps Barry Gerber left in his book. Where Gerber provides an excellent guide to setting up and getting to know Exchange, Robichaux takes you deeper into more "advanced" administrative issues such as disaster recovery, security, enabling Exchange for remote users, etc. If you manage an Exchange server or servers for your orginzation, this book is indispensible. Hats off to the author!
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Summary: THE book on Exchange Server 5.5, bar none
Review: Not a day goes by that I don't find myself looking up some arcane piece of knowledge from the wonderful book. It is well indexed , making it a snap to find out info on pretty much any topic I'd care to look up. It is easily understood and makes administering an Exchange environment a great deal more pleasant. Highly recommended.
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