Chapter 5: The Joy of Managing Exchange

Chapter 5: The Joy of Managing Exchange

Introduction

Exchange won?t manage itself. Time, commitment, and energy are all required to keep a server operational. Much of the internal workings of Exchange remain hidden from the eye, and at times it is downright difficult to know exactly what a server is doing, let alone influence the server to do what you?d like it to do. Messages pass between servers without let or hindrance, network bandwidth is absorbed without permission, replication takes place in the background, and disk space is silently filled up. The GUI administration interface hides all of this in a mass of property pages, drop- down lists, and check boxes. The administration program is nice to look at, but sometimes it would be nicer to have some more information coming out of the server. System usage statistics and reports are generally a weak area for Exchange.

When things go well Exchange is a joy to administer, but when things start to go wrong and the system falls down around your ears you?ll need to have some idea about how Exchange works from a management perspective. Good system management practices for Windows NT and Exchange reduce the chances that something will go wrong as well as helping people get out of trouble when problems appear.

This chapter reviews some of the day to day issues that system administrators have to deal with, and discusses how the issues might be approached. There is never only one good way to deal...

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