Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (eBook)

Cover 1
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Foreword 20
Preface 22
Acknowledgments 26
Chapter 1. A Brief History of Exchange 28
1.1 Exchange first generation 28
1.2 Exchange second generation 32
1.3 Exchange third generation 40
1.4 Deploying Exchange 2003 45
1.5 Some things that Microsoft still has to do 52
1.6 Moving on 56
Chapter 2. Exchange and the Active Directory 58
2.1 The Active Directory 59
2.2 Preparing the Active Directory for Exchange 68
2.3 Active Directory replication 69
2.4 The Active Directory Connector 90
2.5 The LegacyExchangeDN attribute 105
2.6 DSAccess„Exchanges directory access component 107
2.7 Interaction between Global Catalogs and clients 119
2.8 Exchange and the Active Directory schema 126
2.9 Running Exchange in multiple forests 138
2.10 Active Directory tools 147
Chapter 3. Exchange Basics 156
3.1 The organization 156
3.2 Access control 159
3.3 Administrative and routing groups 168
3.4 Mailboxes and user accounts 183
3.5 Distribution groups 195
3.6 Query-based distribution groups 207
3.7 Summarizing Exchange basics 216
Chapter 4. Outlook„The Client 218
4.1 MAPI„Messaging Application Protocol 219
4.2 Making Outlook a better network client for Exchange 225
4.3 How many clients can I support at the end of a pipe? 252
4.4 Blocking client access 253
4.5 Junk mail processing 260
4.6 The Offline Address Book (OAB) 267
4.7 Free/busy information 276
4.8 Personal folders and offline folder files 281
4.9 Offline folder files 292
4.10 SCANPST„first aid for PSTs and OSTs 299
4.11 Working offline or online 302
4.12 Outlook command-line switches 304
Chapter 5. Outlook Web Access 306
5.1 Second-generation OWA 308
5.2 The OWA architecture 311
5.3 Functionality: rich versus reach or premium and basic 316
5.4 Suppressing Web beacons and attachment handling 337
5.5 OWA administration 340
5.6 Exchange’s URL namespace 347
5.7 Customizing OWA 350
5.8 OWA firewall access 358
5.9 OWA for all 364
Chapter 6. Internet and Other Clients 366
6.1 IMAP4 clients 366
6.2 POP3 clients 374
6.3 LDAP directory access for IMAP4 and POP3 clients 374
6.4 Supporting Apple Macintosh 377
6.5 Supporting UNIX and Linux clients 378
6.6 Exchange Mobile Services 380
6.7 Pocket PC clients 388
6.8 Palm Pilots 397
6.9 Mobile BlackBerries 397
6.10 Sending messages without clients 407
6.11 Client licenses 410
Chapter 7. The Store 412
7.1 Structure of the Store 412
7.2 Exchange ACID 414
7.3 EDB database structure 416
7.4 The streaming file 430
7.5 Transaction logs 431
7.6 Store partitioning 449
7.7 Managing storage groups 459
7.8 ESE database errors 468
7.9 Database utilities 476
7.10 The epoxy layer 483
7.11 The Public Store 484
7.12 Laying out a public folder design 486
7.13 Public folder replication 501
7.14 ExIFS„the Exchange Installable File System 520
Chapter 8. Performance and Clusters 530
8.1 Aspects of Exchange performance 531
8.2 Measuring performance 540
8.3 Cloning, snapshots, and lies 546
8.4 Virtual Exchange servers 552
8.5 A brief history of clustering Exchange 553
8.6 Second-generation Exchange clusters 554
8.7 Microsoft cluster basics 557
Chapter 9. Getting the Mail through„Routing and Message Delivery 576
9.1 SMTP and X.400 577
9.2 The evolution of SMTP 578
9.3 The transport core 594
9.4 Processing incoming messages 599
9.5 Categorization and routing 603
9.6 Routing groups 617
9.7 Link state routing 626
9.8 Connecting routing groups 638
9.9 Creating an SMTP connector 644
9.10 Creating an X.400 connector 650
9.11 Understanding routing 659
9.12 SMTP logging 661
9.13 SMTP archiving 665
9.14 Global messaging settings 669
9.15 Combating the menace of spam 675
Chapter 10. Managing Exchange: Users 694
10.1 ESM and other consoles 694
10.2 User access 702
10.3 User authentication 722
10.4 Defining a document retention policy 725
10.5 The Exchange Mailbox Manager 727
10.6 Archiving messages 738
10.7 Exploring the deleted items cache 744
10.8 Decommissioning mailboxes 755
10.9 Helping users to do a better job 762
10.10 Email and viruses 772
10.11 Exchange antivirus tools 786
Chapter 11. Managing Exchange: Servers 794
11.1 System policies 794
11.2 Recipient policies 796
11.3 Recipient update services 804
11.4 Backups 811
11.5 Recovering deleted mailboxes 844
11.6 The Recovery Storage Group 849
11.7 The ExMerge utility 861
11.8 Risk management 869
11.9 The message tracking center 871
11.10 ExchDump 887
11.11 Monitoring Exchange 893
11.12 Standard diagnostics 902
11.13 Management frameworks 904
11.14 Exchange and WMI 907
A Appendix A: Recommended Books for Further Reading 908
B Appendix B: Message Tracking Log Codes 910
C Appendix C: TCP/IP Ports Used by Exchange 914
Glossary 918
Index 928