Exchange Server Training
 

I'm wondering if any of you wonderful techies could direct me to a good set of training material so that I can increase my skills with Exchange Server with an emphasis on Exchange 2000.

Books, online repositories, training and testing software, all would be greatly appreciated.

Are you buying the book, or wanting free choices?
We used this book in class http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0735618992 recently, it proved to be a very good resource, as does that entire series on server 2k and server 2k3

Any of the books at Barnes and Noble or some store like that would probably work ok. I would remind you though that Exchange 2000 is 5 years old and that a lot of companies are now running Exchange 2003.

bendsley:

A lot of the things that were involved with Exchange 2000 carry over to 2003.

I would also like to stress that Exchange as a product is FUCKING EXPENSIVE (if you don't know, I do.. I had to put in a purchase order for the non-enterprise copy): It cost my company many thousands of dollars, and we will not be expecting to upgrade for a number of years.

liquidlight: Exchange 2000 Server 24seven is a good buy if you can't go on training. It is not the end all and be all, but it will teach you a number of things about administering a server.

The best dead-tree book though would probably be right from the horse's mouth: MCSE Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Administration Readiness Review; Exam 70-224 with CDROM.

If you can, take the exam; It will show your employer that you have what it takes.

trache: I guess you haven't seen many of my posts on here before. I run a network for a chemical company in Texas. I upgraded them from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 when I first arrived. Yes, I do know the costs involved in purchasing Microsoft software and the accompanying CALs. Overall though, Exchange is very cheap compared to SQL Enterprise or Navision and Axapta offerings from the MS Business software area. Navision licenses per user are about $2000 each, so, like I said, Exchange is relatively cheap.

You said above "thousands of dollars", thats cheap. You should see the budget I get to work with. I know a lot of stuff carried over from 2000 to 2003. I'm just saying, might as well get 2003 since it will be updated soon again anyway.

Thanks for the links folks :) free would be good, but I need this training so I'm not against shelling out some bucks. I needed 2000 because I'm doing freelance consulting with mostly smaller companies and I run into 2000 a lot more frequently and I'm tired of feeling like I'm missing something with it's administration!

bendsley:

Accept my apology then. We don't have a large budget to play around with, so when we buy something we hang on to it like Charlton Heston hangs onto a shotgun. :)

The forum and articles at www.msexchange.org are good.

If you can, download the 120 day eval at Microsoft's website and install on a test server enviroment to play around with. You should do this on its own domain probably. I doubt you can still get the 2000 version this way, but you can probably download the eval of 2003 still.

Some books I have found helpful:
Exchange 2000 Pocket Guide This one is useful as a quick lookup / desk reference. It gives you the general quick explanation of different topics and troubleshooting.

Exchange Server 2000 24/7 Very easy to read and help to analyze install and some good troubleshooting.

Also, check out Microsoft TechNet, which can be a very good reference for free.

Remember that Microsoft has 5 years mainstream support on their products and 10 years extended. So, depending on what month in 2000 they release Exchange, it's mainstream support will end this year on that month.

LOL, we're still on Exchange 5.0:D



If it ain't broke...

Wow at least move to 5.5