Will Schmied

The Exchange Monitoring and Status Tool

It seems like the topic that never ends: Monitoring your Exchange Server. Maybe the topic does end and you are caught in the Matrix…or maybe it really doesn't end. Either way, monitoring your Exchange Server is akin to making sure that your doors are locked and the alarm is armed when you're away from home. You just do it because you know you have to–well, you don’t have to, but then again you didn't really like that new flat screen HDTV you just bought last month, did you?

Configuring and Using OWA in Exchange 2000 Server

Business today is said to travel at the speed of light, unlike one particular thrill ride at a local amusement park that travels at the speed of fright (but then again, that’s a completely separate story). If you’ve personnel who travel frequently or large production (i.e. manufacturing) environments or a any of a thousand other things going on, you might want to consider using Outlook Web Access to allow your users to access their Exchange Server mailboxes—literally from anywhere in the world.

Troubleshooting and repairing mailboxes and databases

Most of the time your Exchange 2000 Server implementation probably runs fine with no problems at all. Unfortunately, problems can and do occur with any complicated system, and Exchange is no different. In the case of Exchange, however, you also have to take in account the email client software and it’s particulars. Since it’s safe to assume that most of your internal clients will be using Outlook as their email client, we can broaden our view of the Exchange implementation to include the Outlook client and its processes as well.

Performance Anxiety Monitoring your Exchange 2000 Server

You probably already know the important of regular monitoring of your Windows 2000 servers. In fact, you are probably already performing daily and weekly monitoring and baselining on your servers for such critical component areas as hard-disks, memory, processors and network adapters. You are in control of you own domain and you have no performance anxiety my friend. What’s that? You maybe haven’t been as diligent at monitoring your server’s performance as you ought to have been? Oh, well then…sit back and relax a bit…no need to get anxious. If you need an overview or a refresher on monitoring system performance, you’ve come to the right place.

Disaster Recovery

Try as hard as we may, we will never be able to achieve the Utopian ideal of never having a disaster come our way. Since we are firmly entrenched in the real world, it makes good sense then to understand the disaster recovery process as it applies to Exchange 2000 Server and what needs to be done before the disaster strikes—the most important part of disaster recovery planning. A good plan for Exchange 200 Server disaster recovery revolves around and is intertwined with a good plan for disaster recovery for your Windows 2000 servers. We will explore the process and the relative levels of disaster recovery in the following sections.

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The Exchange 2000 Server Instant Messaging Service

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you’ve no doubt heard of Instant Messaging. AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all done their part to bring Instant Messaging capability to all users with an Internet connection. Lately, there have even been some open source projects that produced IM clients capable of signing into more than one service on behalf of a client and populating their “buddy” list with users from multiple services.

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The Exchange 2000 Server Chat Service

Have you ever used the once popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) services that used to be the rage in the early 90’s? If so, then you may have fond memories of them and the time spent in those chat channels. At the time, America Online was making its big push to sign up new members and there was basically two ways for the majority of Internet users to get together in large groups: either as AOL members in AOL chat rooms or using other dial-up ISPs and meeting in IRC chat rooms.

Installing ISA Server 2000.

If you have not yet installed ISA Server on your network, this is the article for you. In this article I will walk you through, step-by-step, the installation of ISA Server 2000 onto a computer in your network. We will cover the different types of installations you can perform (either as a stand-alone server or as part of an array of ISA Servers) and discuss the caveats associated with each.

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