Exchange Server 5.5 Secrets®

Rating:
Summary: Terrible
Review: Do not buy. I was a contributor to this book and am ashamed of that fact.

Rating:
Summary: decent book for administration
Review: I was a contributor to the book. I think it's sad that anonymous authors from Seattle are embarrassed about being a part of a project when it was fully within their power to create something they wouldn't be embarrassed about. It's sad when someone partakes of a project, then feels the need to dissociate with it after it is done--and in an anonymous fashion.

That being said, I've given this book to a few friends, including the company that I work for now. No one I know that has actually read the book has come away with the feeling that they have just completely wasted their time and money.

The book is not perfect. It's hard to figure out where the text is going at times. But the information is invaluable and I haven't seen another book that covers all the informational topics that this one does.

You also have to remember that Exchange Server went through 2 major versions in an extremely short period of time. That shows in this book and probably accounts for the patchy feeling you get while reading it.

Rating:
Summary: decent book for administration
Review: I was a contributor to the book. I think it's sad that anonymous authors from Seattle are embarrassed about being a part of a project when it was fully within their power to create something they wouldn't be embarrassed about. It's sad when someone partakes of a project, then feels the need to dissociate with it after it is done--and in an anonymous fashion.

That being said, I've given this book to a few friends, including the company that I work for now. No one I know that has actually read the book has come away with the feeling that they have just completely wasted their time and money.

The book is not perfect. It's hard to figure out where the text is going at times. But the information is invaluable and I haven't seen another book that covers all the informational topics that this one does.

You also have to remember that Exchange Server went through 2 major versions in an extremely short period of time. That shows in this book and probably accounts for the patchy feeling you get while reading it.

Rating:
Summary: Terrible
Review: This is not an Exchange 5.5 manual. Most of the book is written for v. 4.0 and 5.0 of Exchange. The authors merely added a few paragraphs about what has been added for version 5.5 but offer no information that any administrator could find useful. Passing this book off as a 5.5 manual is an insult. Save your money.

Rating:
Summary: IDG Rename this 5.0 secrets
Review: This was not a 5.5 book at all. It's more like a 5.0 book with upcoming features in 5.5. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

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Summary: "secrets" safe with exchange server 5.5...
Review: Where do I even begin? First off, there was no flow to this book. Sometimes when a book has multiple authors the chapters don't fit together perfectly; in this book the paragraphs seemed slammed together in a random fashion. Secondly, they bounce between high-level overviews and details with nothing in between. Uggh, plus many technical inaccuracies -- very, very disappointing.