Customer Reviews

Connecting Microsoft Exchange Server (HP Technologies)

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I bought this book expecting it to cover a much wider area of connectivity.

It focuses on X.400 and particulary SMTP connectivity, not what I really wanted. But it does cover those areas really well.

As well, as just looking at Exchange, the author covers more related technology areas. Good information from the real world.

This book provides a good overview of how the Exchange servers talk to each other and how the connectors function.

It's not just another connector book which shows screenshots, but rather it discusses how Exchange can work in bigger corporate environments attached to a backbone.

Worth a read.

Bill.

I bought this book based on my experience that the Digital Press series offers the best books on email in the industry. Kieran McCorry meets that challenge! His writing easily matches that of Redmond, Rhoton, Collin, Avolio and Vixie.

I found the content repetitive and the points laboured. The information provided could have been easily presented in 10 pages. Instead the author attemps to over-complicate the topic and confuse the reader. I'm not sure who he is trying to impress, but he didn't impress this reader. E-mail connectivity is an important technology. Getting it right can be the difference between a low maintenance, efficient, fast infrastructure and a painfully slow, troublesome and unreliable one. Unfortunatly this book only succeeds in clouding the issues involved.

Kieran has obviously grasped Microsoft's complex connectivity problems. They are explained in a clear and easily digested fashion. If only all computer books were as interesting.