This is the ultimate guide to the design, migration, implementation, administration, management, and support of an Exchange Server 2007 environment. The recommendations, tips, and tricks covered are based on more than two years of early adopter implementations of Exchange 2007. The authors highlight the features and functions that organizations both large and small have found to be the important components in Exchange 2007, including the new Outlook Web Access mail, functions that better support mobile devices, server-to-server mailbox replication for better data recovery, and integrated voicemail unified messaging.



Rand H. Morimoto, Ph.D., MCSE has been in the computer industry for more than 25 years and is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT-consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area that was one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft on Exchange 2007. Dr. Morimoto has written a best-selling book on Microsoft Exchange for every version over the past 12 years.



Michael Noel, MCSE, MVP has authored or coauthored more than a dozen Sams Publishing “Unleashed” books, and is currently a principal consultant with Convergent Computing.



Andrew Abbate, MCSE is a fourteen-year veteran of consulting and is a senior consultant at Convergent Computing, where he continues to consult with both large and small clients to help improve their IT practices.



Chris Amaris, MCSE, CISSP is the Chief Technology Officer and cofounder of Convergent Computing. He has more than twenty years experience consulting for Fortune 500 companies, leading companies in the selection, design, planning, and implementation of complex IT projects.



Mark Weinhardt, MCSE has worked in various aspects of the computing industry for more than 20 years, has been a consultant with Convergent Computing for more than eleven years, and has performed enterprise class Windows and Exchange implementations and migrations.



Detailed information on how to…
* Plan your implementation and migration to Exchange 2007
* Confirm that your architecture of Exchange 2007 meets best practices
* Build a lab environment to test that your migration, implementation, and support processes are valid
* Implement Cluster Continuous Replication for effective disaster recovery of a failed Exchange server or site
* Integrate Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging into an existing telephony environment
* Optimize Exchange 2007 for a scalable enterprise environment
* Administer and support Exchange on an ongoing basis