Elfassy - Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

David Elfassy

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This book is dedicated to my loving, gorgeous wife, Gillian, and to my three daily inspirations, Zachary, Zoe, and Savannah. Thank you for enduring all my late nights and continuously encouraging me through this journey. I love you all.

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Thank you once again, Microsoft, for a great release of Exchange Server. This is now the seventh major release of the well-known premiere messaging system. In this release, we can see the effort and the ingenuity come together in solving customer problems to create a truly superior product. Congratulations!

As the team that is working on this book completes the final steps required to send it to the printer, I continue to bring some real-world expertise into the content. I have deployed several Exchange Server 2013 infrastructures to date, but this product is so vast and so broad that I continue to find design options, best practices, and architecture recommendations on a daily basis. Im pretty sure that I will be updating the content up to the last minute!

When I was approached to take on this book, several months before Exchange Server 2013 was about to release to manufacturing, my reaction was, What about Jim? Jim McBee, having authored three previous editions of this book, has been the pillar of the Mastering Exchange Server series and an inspiring role model in my own Exchange Server consulting career. I consider it to be a true honor to take over for Jim McBee as the lead author for this book, and I hope that this edition has adequately followed through on his tradition.

Throughout the book, I have tried to keep the tone and language similar to what was used in the previous editions of this book, so if you are familiar with Jims writing style, you should find comfort in these pages. In addition, I have removed some of the introductory technical information from previous editions, to reflect the depth of initial experience of the readers.

Taking on the responsibility of a 900+ -page manual is no simple task and not one that can be undertaken by only one person. Along the way, I have invited several contributors to this effort. Their knowledge and expertise have added incredible value to this book. Having written anywhere from several paragraphs to complete chapters, Chris Crandall, Devin Ganger, Mahmoud Magdy, Adam Micelli, Bob Reinsch, Jeffrey Rosen, and Michael Smith are Exchange Server gurus who have provided key content for this book. Some of this has been outside my areas of expertise and a great contribution to this effort. Thank you!