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.
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.
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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