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Availability monitoring

Proactive monitoring

Availability prediction

Chapter 5 – Protection

To protect your Exchange environment from failure, you need good protection from intrusion and attack, along with a documented and tested disaster-recovery procedure to cope with system failure. The chapter shows how to ensure that your server running Exchange is protected against these eventualities.

This chapter deals with the following:

Firewall issues

Anti-virus protection

Disaster-recovery procedures

Recovery testing

Backup

Restore

Chapter 6 – Support

An effective support environment allows you to deal more efficiently with unforeseen issues, increasing the reliability of your Exchange environment. This chapter shows how to manage your support in an Exchange 2000 environment.

This chapter deals with these topics:

Helpdesk support

Problem management

Planning and Deployment

To make the most out of your Exchange 2000 environment, you should make sure that your operations are carefully planned and structured. The best way of ensuring that your operations are efficient is to have operations intrinsically involved in the planning and deployment phases of Exchange 2000, providing valuable input into those processes.

Many times deployment teams do not involve the operations team in the project until it is near completion. If you are going to perform successful operations from the outset, you should make sure that you plan effectively for the operations team to take over the infra- structure and processes. Making sure that at least one member of operations attends all planning and deployment meetings will help to ensure that your design and implementa- tion takes operations needs into account.

Operations procedures need to be defined during the planning and deployment process. Service level agreements, disaster-recovery documents, and monitoring procedures all need

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