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by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Welcome to the eighth installment of Learn Active Directory Design and Administration in 15 Minutes a Week, a weekly series aimed at current IT professionals preparing to write the new Windows Active Directory Design and Administration exams (70-219 and 70-217 respectively), as well as newcomers to the field who are trying […]

by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Welcome to the tenth installment of Learn Active Directory Design and Administration in 15 Minutes a Week, a weekly series aimed at current IT professionals preparing to write the new Windows Active Directory Design and Administration exams (70-219 and 70-217 respectively), as well as newcomers to the field who are trying […]

by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Welcome to the 11th installment of Learn Active Directory Design and Administration in 15 Minutes a Week, a weekly series aimed at current IT professionals preparing to write the new Windows Active Directory Design and Administration exams (70-219 and 70-217 respectively), as well as newcomers to the field who are trying […]

by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Welcome to the 12th installment of Learn Active Directory Design and Administration in 15 Minutes a Week, a weekly series aimed at current IT professionals preparing to write the new Windows Active Directory Design and Administration exams (70-219 and 70-217 respectively), as well as newcomers to the field who are trying […]

by Michael Bellwww.2000trainers.com Welcome to the first article in my series Exchange 2000 Server Administration in 15 Minutes a Week. I just wanted to take a couple of minutes this week to say hello and bring everyone up to spepred on what it is we will be doing here over the next few months. My […]

by Michael Bell www.2000trainers.com Last week we spoke about the requirements to install Exchange 2000. We discussed both hardware and software issues, and even talked a little bit about monitoring our Exchange server to keep an eye on resource utilization. Before we actually start our Exchange installation, though, we need to talk about the rights […]

by Michael Bellwww.2000trainers.com Well, as promised last week, we are going to start off this week by finishing our look at Forestprep and Domainprep. After that, we will actually start through an actual installation of Exchange 2000 and see what’s new in the installation program. In case you have forgotten, you might want to look […]

by Michael Bell www.2000trainers.com Well, the time has come to actually start administering our new Exchange server. In a moment we will take a look at the default view afforded by the ESM (Exchange System Manager), and we will begin discussing some of the issues involved in managing an Exchange 2000 implementation. I don’t want […]

by Michael Bellwww.2000trainers.com As promised last week, we are going to spend this week taking a look at Administrative Groups. This is a new construct in Exchange 2000, although the idea is the same as it was in previous versions. By that I mean Administrative Groups are collections of Exchange 2000 objects that are grouped […]

by Michael Bellwww.2000trainers.com This week we are going to change gears, moving away from planning to talk about creating recipients in Exchange 2000. We have four types of recipient objects that we can create in Exchange 2000, including mailbox-enabled recipients, mail-enabled recipients, contacts, and distribution groups. We will start with mailbox-enabled recipients, which have a […]

by Michael Bellwww.2000trainers.com Ok, now that I have had a little bit of a break, I guess it is time to get back to the articles! Today we are going to talk about Recipient Policies. While not necessarily the most glamorous feature of Exchange 2000, Recipient Policies are definitely worth knowing about. In Exchange 5.5, […]

by Michael Bell www.2000trainers.com This article in the ‘Learning Exchange Server 2000 in 15 Minutes a Week’ series looks at setting up the DNS so that Exchange 2000 can access the Internet. The article also covers the Nslookup utility for troubleshooting DNS settings. One of the most frequent problems I see people having with Exchange […]