Stanek W.R. - Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Pocket Consultant: Configuration and Clients

To my readers Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Pocket Consultant: Configuration & Clients is my 41st book for Microsoft Press. Thank you for being there with me through many books and many years.

To my wifeFor many years, through many books, many millions of words, and many thousands of pages, shes been there, providing support and encouragement and making every place weve lived a home.

To my kidsFor helping me see the world in new ways, for having exceptional patience and boundless love, and for making every day an adventure.

To Anne, Karen, Martin, Lucinda, Juliana, and many others whove helped out in ways both large and small.

W ILLIAM R. S TANEK

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M icrosoft Exchange Server 2013 Pocket Consultant: Configuration & Clients is designed to be a concise and compulsively usable resource for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 administrators. This is the readable resource guide that youll want on your desk at all times. The book covers everything you need to perform the core administrative tasks for configuring Exchange Server 2013 and setting up Exchange clients, whether your servers are running on Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Because the focus of this book is on giving you maximum value in a pocket-size guide, you dont have to wade through hundreds of pages of extraneous information to find what youre looking for. Instead, youll find exactly what you need to get the job done.

In short, this book is designed to be the one resource you turn to whenever you have questions about configuring Exchange Server 2013 and setting up Exchange clients. To this end, the book zeroes in on daily administrative procedures, frequently performed tasks, documented examples, and options that are representative although not necessarily exhaustive. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the book remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that it is packed with as much information as possible. Thus, instead of a hefty 1,000-page tome or a lightweight 100-page quick reference, you get a valuable resource guide that can help you quickly and easily perform common tasks and solve problems.

Although you might not install Exchange Server 2013 on touch-enabled computers, you can use these devices to manage your installation. If you do manage the software this way, understanding the touch UI as well as the revised interface options will be crucial to your success. For this reason, I reference both the touch UI and the traditional mouse and keyboard techniques throughout this book.

Touch-enabled computers allow you to manipulate onscreen elements in ways that werent possible previously. In addition to entering text by using an onscreen keyboard, you can also use the following actions to interact with the UI:

As youve probably noticed, a great deal of information about Exchange Server 2013 is available on the web and in other printed books. You can find tutorials, reference sites, discussion groups, and more to make using Exchange Server 2013 easier. However, the advantage of reading this book is that much of the information you need to learn about Exchange Server 2013 is organized in one place and presented in a straightforward and orderly fashion. This book has everything you need to master Exchange Server 2013 configurations and clients.

In this book, I teach you how features work, why they work the way they do, and how to customize them to meet your needs. I also offer specific examples of how certain features can meet your needs and how you can use other features to troubleshoot and resolve issues you might have. In addition, this book provides tips, best practices, and examples of how to optimize Exchange Server 2013. This book wont just teach you how to configure Exchange Server 2013; it will teach you how to squeeze every last bit of power out of it and make the most from the features and options it includes.

Unlike many other books about administering Exchange Server 2013, this book doesnt focus on a specific user level. This isnt a lightweight beginner book. Regardless of whether you are a beginning administrator or a seasoned professional, many of the concepts in this book will be valuable to you, and you can apply them to your Exchange Server 2013 installations.