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Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2003 Databases

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The book is definitely setup as a training manual for the working Admin. It's one lab after another going through each type of recovery in detail. It takes a while to do all of the labs and you'll need to know more than just the basics to get through them. You can tell the author wrote it with this in mind. If your job is to manage exchange and you really want to know the ins and outs of exchange databases, then this is a great training course that you can do on your own.

I just started administering Exchange and i needed a book that would help me prepare for the worst. This book right from the start showed how to Recover Exchange the right way. I use to worry everyday that the Exchange Server would go down, now i have no fears...

The book was referred to me by a friend who had taken the course that the book is based on. I'm not very good at sitting in a classroom, so I decided to take the plunge and find out what I was missing. The labs gradually take you through all of the scenarios we had to go through when our server crashed. You use LoadSim to load mail and build the logs, which is quite interesting and works well as a learning tool. It takes about 30-40 hours to complete (It took me 31) and I think it's time well spent. If you haven't worked with Exchange in the past, it might be hard to follow. However, if you work with Exchange on a day-to-day basis then this book is for you. After finishing all of the labs, I can say the book gave me a complete picture as to the best recovery methods to use for each type of database failure. I just wish I had found it and done the labs before my server took a dump. It would have saved me a big headache and 7 hours of downtime. I highly recommend the book for people who manage exchange and need to reduce their downtime.