Exchange Server 2010 Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond (Exams 70-662 and 70-663) [Paperback]

Joel Stidley (Author), Erik Gustafson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0470624434 | ISBN-13: 978-0470624432 | Edition: 1

A soup-to-nuts guide for messaging administrators

Exchange Server is the world’s leading e-mail server software. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have made changes that messaging administrators need to know and understand in their daily work with Exchange Server. This Sybex guide focuses on the skills, concepts, technologies, and potential pitfalls that admins in the trenches need to understand. It also provides the information they need to earn MCITP certification.

• Updates in Exchange Server, the world’s leading e-mail server software, require messaging administrators to update their knowledge in order to provide the best possible e-mail solutions
• Highly focused and comprehensive, this guide teaches you to design a highly available e-mail messaging server, install and configure Exchange Server 2010, work with recipients, groups and mailboxes, configure public folders, secure Exchange, and more
• CD includesvideo walkthroughs of more difficult tasks, practice exams, and electronic flashcards.

Exchange Server 2010 Administration offers real-world knowledge that messaging admins need every day and helps prepare candidates for the MCITP certification exam.

CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.

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From the Back Cover

Take Your Career to the Next Level with This Practical Reference

Here's the information you need to not only prepare for the MCITP certification exams as an Exchange Server 2010 Messaging Administrator, but also to excel in your job. Learn how to design a highly available e-mail messaging solution, install and deploy Exchange Server 2010 SP1, plan for backup and recovery, and much more. This reference explores the real-world tasks and scenarios you'll face on the job and shows you step by step how to handle them.

• Understand the Exchange Server 2010 administrator's job

• Explore practical ways to design an e-mail messaging solution

• Learn how to install, configure, and maintain Exchange Server 2010 SP1

• Configure connectors and client access, and work with recipients and mailboxes

• Set up security, including antivirus and anti-spam, and configure message compliance

• Create high availability for client access, hub and edge transport, and more

• Plan for backup and recovery

FEATURED ON THE CD

VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS
See video walk-throughs for some of the more challenging tasks you'll face on the job.

PRACTICE EXAMS
Test your knowledge with practice exams that help you prepare for certification.

ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS
Take advantage of electronic flashcards to reinforce your understanding of key concepts.

Covers the exam objectives for these Exchange Server 2010 exams:

MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring (Exam 70-662)

MCITP: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Exam 70-663)

About the Author

Joel Stidley, MCSE, MCTS, is a Microsoft Exchange MVP with over 12 years of IT experience. Currently, he is a Solutions Architect at Terremark Worldwide, Inc. He is the founding member of ExchangeExchange.com, the author of MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide, Second Edition (Exam 70-236), and coauthor of Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 SP1.

Erik Gustafson, MCSE, MCSA, has over nine years of IT consulting experience and is currently a Solutions Architect for Terremark Worldwide, Inc. A contributing author to MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide, he is also a content provider for uCertify.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 744 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (November 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470624434
• ISBN-13: 978-0470624432
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.6 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #7 in Books > Computers & Technology > Certification > Microsoft
  • #81 in Books > Computers & Technology > Networking > Data in the Enterprise > Client-Server Systems

More About the Author

Joel Stidley has been working in the IT field for over 15 years, and he has been a computer fanatic for much longer. In his 10 years with Terremark Worldwide he filled a number of key roles, including the technical lead for creating and operationalizing the company's Infinistructure virtualization platform. Also, while working at Terremark he is the Principal Systems Architect for the Cloud and Managed Services business unit, where he worked with a variety of current and future technologies related to virtualization, directory services, storage, and messaging. He was a three time Microsoft MVP, blogger and an author of several technical books. Joel now works for Microsoft as a Hosting Technology Strategist.

In 2004, Joel founded ExchangeExchange.com, a Microsoft Exchange-focused community website, where he blogs and provides forums for discussing Exchange, PowerShell, certification, and general Windows information. In the last few years, he has also been writing extensively. His two latest books are Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices (Microsoft Press) and Real World Exchange Server 2010 (Sybex).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Wow July 15, 2012

By Matthew Wakeling

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is the first review I've ever left on Amazon about a book. For me to do this, the book either has to be the best book I've ever read, or the worst taste of dinousar diarrhea to walk the Earth. Sadly in this case, it's the latter. This book is HORRIBLY inaccurate with spelling mistakes, incorrect information and wrong steps in the exercises. Even the pdf version on the CD has the wrong screenshots! I'm an MCSE, VCP 5.0, MCTS, MCSA, MCP, CCA (Citrix), A+ Hardware Technician and ITIL Foundation 3.0, and this has got to be the worst technical book I have ever read to date.

Ironically, they even mention in the book at the beginning that they did not rush this book onto the market because they wanted to thoroughly explore the administration of Exchange 2010. How false that statement is.

This book by no means actually goes into any technical depth (like exploring the protocols being used when connecting via Outlook or OWA, or how the actual Autodiscovery process works when opening up Outlook). Instead, it just goes over steps of how to do something with zero explanation of how it works. I'm so annoyed - I bought Sharepoint and SQL books from the same publisher and I'm dreading opening them up in fear they'll be the same garbage.

Ugh, steer well away from this "technical" book. Waste of your time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Exchange Sybex Book January 11, 2012

By Tiago Ferreira

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a great book about Exchange 2010 and certification exam. Actually I prefer Sybex books rather than Training Kit. I think reading enjoyable. Some exercices are not complete, missing names of server, but the author published a revision of exercices in his website, I recommend that readers get download of this new exercices.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Two resources in one January 19, 2011

By wbstr

Format:Paperback

The authors did an excellent job in creating a book that serves as both a Exchange Resource I'll keep on my shelf for years to come, and also as a study resource for several exam. The exercises in the book cover lots of applicable real world examples and go into the right amount of detail for an IT Professional.

When studying for an exam I have always hated having to copy pages from the end of each chapter to get a full bank of study questions, putting them all on CD made taking practice tests that much easier. I felt like more questions would be useful, but having passed the exam on my first try after using the resources provided I can't complain.

The first thing I did when I got this book was to see if it covered several recent issues we've worked though that were not easy to find answers to online. To my delight, they were all well covered in this book.

That 5th star is a thank you for including a digital copy with the book.