The old Exchange address book was not very powerful or complex but it did the job in most situations. A handy feature that existed in Exchange 5.5 was automatic creation of address lists. All you had to do was go to File a New Other a Address Book View, choose a mailbox attribute and almost immediately you would get address view for all your departments or whatever attributes you decided to sort users by.
In Mark Fugatt’s article “Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient,” he covered how to take mail destined for an internal mailbox and forward it to an outside email address such as a Hotmail or AOL account.
While most Exchange admins are agreed on the necessity of performing regular backups, not all agree on which is the best way to do it. In fact, many Exchange newcomers are surprised at how strongly some admins feel regarding the superiority of one method compared to another.
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?
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.
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