Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000, Building Highly-Available Messaging and Knowledge Management Systems

Rating:
Summary: Extremely thorough
Review: This book is very well done and covers many of the subtle points of designing and implementing a rock solid Exchange 2000 infrastructure.

There is a great amount of detail around appropriate backup and restore processes and procedures, which is often times an after thought in some implementations. Service level agreements as well as defining "server down time" is also covered in much detail.

Often times it is some of the "softer" aspects of design that can differentiate an initially successful implementation from one that will stay successful and stand the test of time--this book goes a long way to provide help in this area.

I would recommend this book for anyone embarking on designing and building any Exchange 2000 deployment. It would also serve well as a checkpoint for designs that have already been done or implemented to ensure that any gaps can be identified and filled prior to problems arising.