MCSE Exchange Server 5.5 Exam Prep (Exam: 70-081)

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Summary: Book not bad, support not the greatest thing in the world.
Review: Book seems OK. However if you're thinking about emailing them for a question/corections, I suggest that you don't. You're never gonna get a reply back anyways.

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Summary: Don't make this your only reference
Review: I found this book to be a good road map of an already simple Exchange Administrator interface. There was some information on Exchange, but it was vague and incomplete. For the most part, the reader is told where to set a given setting, but little information was given on the impact of that setting.

The gap between writers was also very transparent. This was very distracting.

There was also some incorrect and confusing information in the book. The section about MS Mail Connector Directory Synchronization Server and requiring a Requestor for each post office is a good example of this. This is not true. Each post office is a requestor, but they lead you to believe you need to install a requestor on the connector for each post office in existence.

Overall, this might be a decent book in preparation to take the test, but you might want to pick another if you want to run Exchange Server.

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Summary: Don't make this your only reference
Review: I had this book and the Transcender exam for Exchange 5.5. It's a good thing I had the Transcender stuff. I've been working with Exchange for over a year in single-site configurations, but needed something to get wise to multi-site configurations, etc. This book wasn't enough. Maybe it was just the fact that I kept falling asleep over it, but there seemed to be major sections that the Transcender exam covered well that this didn't touch at all. All in all, a disappointment.

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Summary: RECOMMENDED AS YOUR SECOND REFERENCE
Review: I USED THIS BOOK TOGETHER WITH THE MOC TO PASS MY EXCHANGE SERVER 5.5 EXAM. I AM NOW A MCSE.

I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHO HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT EXCHANGE SERVER. IT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR THE PROFFESIONALS. IT COVERS THE BASIC ADMINISTRATION INFORMATIONS BUT NOT MUCH OF PRACTICAL STUFF e.g. LOTUS NOTES CONNECTIVITIES. DON'T JUST CONCENTRATE ON THIS BOOK, TRY TO LOOK AROUND FOR OTHERS.