Customer Reviews

Managing Microsoft Exchange Server

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This book is EXCELLENT! I'm brand new to Exchange server and needed more than a "let's talk about all the features" book. I needed a book that could outline the theory AND the setup. This book did that and more. The information is concise, thorough and has good coverage of the basic client setups too. Though, you will still need something else for a thorough implemation of your client base. This book covers everything, including the connectors, information stores, IMS, NNS, and mailbox setups. Paul also, gives you many alternative methods of doing things like mailbox delegation. The clear "How-to" instructions are wonderful and Paul outlines the theory exquisitely. This is the Echange 5.5 Bible I have been looking for.

WOW! Great book! I am not bragging, but I want to qualify my experience with Exchange and technical books.

I am an MCSE and an MCT. I teach Windows 9x, Windows NT Server, Windows NT Workstation, Windows NT Enterprise, IIS, Proxy, TCP/IP, Exchange and more... I have also co-authored and edited several Windows NT books.

This is one of the most technically accurate and readable books that I have read in a long time. I am actually reading it cover to cover and I am enjoying every page.

JOB WELL DONE! Thanks!

If I had to choose but two MS Exchange books for my arsenal, this would absolutely be one of them. The other would have to be Barry Gerber's "Mastering Exchange Server 5.5"

Paul Robichaux has done an EXCELLENT job of filling in what few gaps Barry Gerber left in his book. Where Gerber provides an excellent guide to setting up and getting to know Exchange, Robichaux takes you deeper into more "advanced" administrative issues such as disaster recovery, security, enabling Exchange for remote users, etc.

If you manage an Exchange server or servers for your orginzation, this book is indispensible. Hats off to the author!

I inherited an Exchange 5.5 server from a previous admin about 2 years ago. I had very limited knowledge of Exchange prior to that. This book gave me an excellent understanding of Exchange. Robichaux's writing style makes this book very readable. Paul, please come out with the Exchange 2000 book!

Paul Robichaux's MANAGING MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER is a "must-have" for your bookshelf. It is one of those rare technical books that you can both enjoy by simply sitting down and reading it (cover to cover), or using it as a reference book, when you find your Exchange in trouble. For me, it has already more than paid for itself.

'Managing Exchange Server' is absolutely the best resource for reference, daily tasks, and solutions for the 5.5 Exchange. I bought this book a year ago and it is always on my desk.

Not a day goes by that I don't find myself looking up some arcane piece of knowledge from the wonderful book. It is well indexed , making it a snap to find out info on pretty much any topic I'd care to look up. It is easily understood and makes administering an Exchange environment a great deal more pleasant. Highly recommended.

Earlier this year I had to deploy a set of Exchange servers. I am not an MCSE, but I have installed Unix boxes and even hacked sendmail entries, so I figured, how hard should this be? Answer: very.

Exchange has a bezillion options and you'll need an almost zen-like mastery of the application to be successful deploying it. I didn't have the time to build this foundation, and relied heavily on this book to explain some of the arcane concepts.

"Managing MS Exchange Server" is very well indexed and does a pretty good job of explaining some of the obscure registry entries and security options in the product. It also provide the mental "glue" that I needed to see how my Exchange servers would interact.

A few of the registry keys were different as a result of the most recent service packs. This is forgivable given the book's always going to lag the product, and the differences weren't that horrible.

If you're tasked with doing any amount of work with Exchange, you really need this book.

As a rookie Administrator, I bought 2 other books before finding this one. The others left me scratching my head, wondering who the authors were addressing.

After 2 months (and multiple sessions with the book), I am fully confident that I can resolve m the routine problems that crop up, and by digging a little deeper, find even more answers when needed.

Both of our Senior Exchange Administrators (one with over 20 years of network communications experience) have used this book extensively, and they concur with my comments. Often, I am now able to resolve problems before they do.

Anything Robichaux writes, I'll buy.

As an MCSE I'm always looking for new resources which will help me to better serve clients and learn more about products. I've been looking for a great resource for Exchange for quite some time. After reading reviews of this book I thought I had found the resource I was looking for. Couple the reviews with the great books that O'Reilly puts out and this book seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for me it was too good to be true. After reading the first few chapters I started doing some major skipping ahead and skimming. Alot of the information that I found I had already read on Microsoft's website. If you're new to Exchange this could possibly be the book for you, unfortunately in my case I have to return the book and keep searching.